10-24-2005 Council Packet - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Moaday, October 10,2005 7:00 o’clock p.m. (#05*3121 Narrow! Salooa, Coatiaacd) Gaffron stated the hardcover for this site is at nearly 100 percent. The proposed bermed planting area abutting the outdoor seating has the potential to reduce hardcover by approximately 150 square feet or down to 98.9 percent. No new hardcover is being added, but the vestibule converts 88 square feet of pavement to structure. Gaflron pointed out Orono ordinances require that parking be provided at a rate of one stall per 80 square feet of public floor area for a restaurant, cafe, bar, tavern, etc. Because the Narrows’ property is relatively small, only a small number of parking stalls currently are available on site, and this will ^ reduced to no more than three to four stalls when the outdoor seating area i.s developed. The majority of the current and future parking needs for the Narrows must be met offsite, pnmuily in the municipal lot behind the property. Gaffron stated the Navarre municipal parking lot was acquired and improved in 1964-1965. The businesses that back up to the parldng lot were originally assessed for the improvements to it based on their amount of frontage on a traveled street. The Narrows* site was assessed for 104.5 feet of frontage or eight percent of the total frontage assessed. At the time of assessment, no commitments were made that Staff can find that would apportion specific numbers of parking sUills to specific propcrtie.s. We do know that in 1983 the Council adopted Resolution No. 1594 that resulted from settlement of a claim by the former owners of 2385 Shad^ood Road and granted variances that would allow an office building requiring credit of 26 parking stalls in the municipal lot. These variances were granted with a waiver of the one-year expiration, so the potential may still exist for that property to lay claim to as many as 26 stalls. As a result of concerns about whether the municipal lot has the capacity to serve the increased Narrows’ parking demand. Planning Commission directed the applicant to complete a parking analysis. The applicant retained Benshoof & Associates, Inc., to conduct a parking smdy. The parking study aided in addressing two key parking questions: one, is the existing number of parking stalls in the public parking lot sufficient to accommodate the increased demand associated with the proposed saloon expansion; and two, will sufficient spaces remain available in the public parking lot to serve users of other properties that rely upon this parking lot. The study reviewed the existing available parking and notes that 129 spaces are available in the municipal lot with 30 additional spaces available on pnvate prqierties that abut the lot. More importantly, the study reviewed existing peak parking demand as well as funire parking demand during the same peak times. The peak times reviewed were the Friday noon period, Saturday noon penod, and Saturday evening. The existing peak demands at these noted time periods are 65 vehicles during the Friday noon period. 59 vehicles during the Saturday noon period, and 67 vehicles during the Saturday evening penod. The future demand, taking into consideration the Caribou Coffee use and the proposed Narrows expansion as well as the other existing uses, was projected at 115 parking stalls during the Friday noon period, 93 stalls during the Saturday noon period, and 122 stalls dunng the Saturday evening period. PAGE 10 J