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10 Shared parking arrangements recognize that various uses have differ- ent peak operating hours. A common example is shared parking between restaurant and office uses. The parking lot may be heavily used by office employees and visitors in the daytime, while the restaurant patrons may park in the lot after most weekday office users have left and on weekends. If the restaurant is open during the day, it may benefit from lunch-time use by office employees while generating little additional daytime parking de- mand. In addition to efficient sharing of parking spaces and reduced de- velopment costs, transportation system benefits may result from a reduc- tion in the number of office employees driving off-site for lunch. In determining the amount of parking required for mixed-use or multi- use developments, many zoning codes contain provisions such as the fol- lowing from Minneapolis: “Where there are two or more separate princi- pal uses on the site, the required parking and loading for the site shall be the sum of the required parking and loading for each use, except as other- wise specified in this chapter.” Additional provisions, however, allow as- of-right parking reductions based on shared parking arrangements. The following procedure is used in Minneapolis to reduce the overall number of spaces for shared parking arrangements. 541.190. Shared Parking . . . 1. Computation. The number of shared spaces for two (2) or more distin- guishable land uses shall be determined by the following procedure: a. Multiply the minimum parking required for each individual use, as set forth in Table 541-1, Specific Off-Street Parking Provisions, by the appropriate percentage indicated in Table 541-2, Shared Parking Cal- culations, for each of the six (6) designated time periods. b. Add the resulting sums for each of the six (6) columns. c. The minimum parking requirement shall be the highest sum among the six (6) columns resulting from the above calculations. d. Select the time period with the highest total parking requirement and use that total as the shared parking requirement. 2. Other uses. If one (1) or all of the land uses proposing to make use of shared parking facilities do not conform to the general land use classifi- cations in Table 541-2, Shared Parking Calculations, as determined by the zoning administrator, then the applicant shall submit sufficient data to indicate the principal operating hours of the uses. Based upon this information, the zoning administrator shall determine the appropriate shared parking requirement, if any, for such uses. 3. Process. An application for shared parking shall be submitted on a form approved by the zoning administrator, as specified in Chapter 525, Ad- ministration and Enforcement. Variations of this format are found in zoning codes in a variety of communities. Table 541-1 is shown below. In addition, I am providing an example of how a shared parking agreement between three uses would be calculated. Those three uses are: 1. a 10,000-square-foot retail building, 2. a 6,000-square-foot office building, and 3. a restaurant with 1,000 square feet of public area. The Minneapolis Zoning Code requires: 1. 20 parking spaces for the retail building, 2. 7 spaces for the office building, and 3. 20 spaces for the restaurant. 127