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Genmar currently has 68 authorized parking spaces to accompany 111 marina slips <br />and building. Based on the proposed project, we will be converting 12 boat rental slips <br />to in-water boat display. These slips will be devoted to the sales operation orily, which <br />will reduce the amount of parking required. This is so because the 12 slips will not be <br />used for normal unrestricted boat access. Only two of these slips could ever be used at <br />one time because all customers who test drive must be accompanied by a salesperson <br />at the site. There will be a maximum of two working salespersons at the site at any <br />time. Further, because the sales facility will be closed at 6:00 p.m. including Saturdays <br />(normal business hours will be 9:00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.) and closed on Sundays, <br />employee and boat sales customer parking will not be needed on evenings and on <br />Sundays. Thus, the entire parking lot will be available to service the 99 rental slips <br />during evenings and 2/3 of the weekend--the busiest time of the week. Consequently, It <br />is our belief that the parking related to the sales function is adequately considered with <br />the need for only 11 parking stalls to aodress the new use <br />As indicated by Michael Gaffron ’s November 15,1996 memorandum to the planning <br />commission, it is his opinion that the ordinance identifies parking requirements based <br />on the number of slips without distinguishing use as boat display suggesting Genmar <br />would need 18 parking stalls to address the new use at the site. Whjle the ordinance <br />does not address slips used for rental as distinguished from storage or in-water display, <br />it is clear that the ordinance contemplated unrestricted use of slips where the slip user <br />would use the slip at any time of day or night. This is clearly not the c:^«e with the <br />proposed 12 slips to be used as boat display as discussed above. Consequently, it is <br />not appropriate to require 7 parking spaces for the 12 slips which would be used for in­ <br />water boat display. To do so would result in requiring the facility to duplicate the <br />parking requirements for boat-sales customers and rental slips even though the display <br />slips would be totally devoted to the boat-sales customer for whom parking has already <br />been provided. To duplicate the parking requirements vyould be an illogical reading of <br />the ordinance. Ordinances can not address every situation so they at times need some <br />logical interpretation as is the case here. <br />Genmar has evaluated the expansion of the existing parking lot while considering <br />hardcover requirements and the number of trees which would require removal. * <br />Evaluated were the alternatives of increasing the lot by 3 stalls and 10 stalls. The <br />grading plan, stormwater plan, and landscaping plan for each option are pro\^d^ to^ <br />replace Exhibit I. It should be noted that the 10-stall option would meet Mr. Gaffron s <br />initial version of the parking requirements or allow for the use of 7 stalls for boat display <br />and provide for the 3 stalls necessary to alleviate a variance under Genmar s <br />interpretation of the parking requirements. <br />If the parking lot was increased by 3 stalls, the resulting increase in hardcu x ^ <br />lot only) would be 450 s.f. in the 0 - 75 foot zone and 125 s.f. in the 75 - 250 foo* , . :s. <br />This alternative would require the removal of two trees. The existing pond would be <br />expanded and would result in the removal of 4 to 5 trees. It should be noted that the <br />increase in size of the existing pond to meet NURP standards would require the <br />removal of these trees even if the parking lot was not increased in size. <br />If the parking lot was increased by 10 stalls, the resulting increase in hardcover (parking <br />lot only) would be 865 s.f. in the 0 - 75 foot zone and 135 s.f. in the 75 - 250 foot zorie. <br />This alternative would require the filling of the existing pond to allow for the increase in <br />the lot and construction of a new stormwater retention pond. A total of 5 trees would <br />require removal. <br />It should be noted that the decrease in the size of the building would completely offset <br />hardcover increases created by the 3 stall option and partially offset hardcove;