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11 <br />These figures are derived from the Minneapolis code, which outside of <br />the city’s downtown area requires one parking space per 300 square feet of <br />gross floor area in excess of 4,000 square feet for retail and office buildings. <br />It also requires parking equal to 30 percent of the capacity of persons in the <br />public area of restaurants, where the capacity of persons is based on the <br />building code allowance of one person per 15 square feet of area. In other <br />words, the code would require that the three uses have a total of 47 park- <br />ing spaces without a shared parking arrangement. I have not factored in <br />other allowed parking reductions (e.g., providing bicycle parking or an <br />on-site transit shelter). <br />The greatest sum shown in Table 2 is 41, which becomes the overall park- <br />ing requirement for the three uses. Thus, the shared parking arrangement <br />allows this particular development or combination of developments to <br />General Land Use <br />Classification Weekdays Weekends <br />1:00 a.m.– 7:00 a.m.– 6:00 p.m.– 1:00 a.m.– 7:00 a.m.– 6:00 p.m.– <br />7:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. 1:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. 1:00 a.m. <br />Office 0.35 7 0.35 0 1.05 0 <br />Retail sales <br />and services 0 20 16 0 20 12 <br />Restaurant <br />(not 24 hr) 4 14 20 6 15 20 <br />Total 4 41 36 6 36 32 <br />TABLE 2. <br />THE RESULTS OF <br />SHARED PARKING CALCULATIONS <br />○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ <br />○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ <br />○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ <br />General Land Use <br />Classification Weekdays Weekends <br />1:00 a.m.– 7:00 a.m.– 6:00 p.m.– 1:00 a.m.– 7:00 a.m.– 6:00 p.m.– <br />7:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. 1:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. 1:00 a.m. <br />Office 5% 100% 5% 0% 15% 0% <br />Retail sales <br />and services 0% 100% 80% 0% 100% 60% <br />Restaurant <br />(not 24 hr) 20% 70% 100% 30% 75% 100% <br />Residential 100% 60% 100% 100% 75% 95% <br />Theater 0% 60% 100% 0% 80% 100% <br />Hotel <br />Guest rooms <br />Restaurant lounge 100% 55% 100% 100% 55% 100% <br />(in hotel) <br />Conference rooms 0% 100% 100% 0% 100% 100% <br />Religious institution 0% 25% 50% 0% 100% 50% <br />TABLE 1. <br />SHARED PARKING CALCULATIONS <br />(Table 541-1 from the Minneapolis, Minnesota, code) <br />○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ <br />○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ <br />○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ <br />○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ <br />○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ <br />○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ <br />○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ <br />128