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POLICY H2 • 05/05/04 Consider amendment of Farmer's Market interim use permit (continued) 3. The Credit Union is also supplying up to 15 parking spaces for use by the construction workers at the SE Corner, reducing the available parking by that number. 4. Including these two groups, the number of parking spaces required by TCCU for its business needs increases from 122 to 160, as shown in the IUP (115 employees and visitors, plus 30 plus 15). 5. The market vendors will occupy the eastern three rows of parking stalls of the north parking lot, consisting of 75 spaces. Last year they were expected to occupy 4 rows, but the vendor area was expanded instead into the islands and driveways (blocked off) at the ends of the row. This was enough space for the vendors, so this number is reduced from 120 spaces to 75 (shown in the IIJP). 6. To improve traffic flow and safety, TCCU proposes to re-stripe the two southbound lanes of the parking lot to make all lanes northbound, so there will be one entry into and one exit out of the parking lot, at south and north ends, respectively. This should substantially alleviate the bottleneck at the main vehicle entrance this year. However, it will result in the loss of 10 parking spaces in the north lot, due to the configuration of raised islands. Only 5 of these are in the customer parking rows, so this represents the loss of another 5 spaces, in exchange for improved traffic flow and safety. 7. Subtracting the TCCU needs, the vendor area and the re-striping loss from the total of 423 parking spaces leaves a total of 183 spaces (down from 231 indicated on the 2003 IUP) for customers, as shown in the IUP. These parking stalls are located in the north parking lot, west of the vendor area, and in the west parking lot adjacent to Prior. It should be noted that this is the actual area that was used for parking during last year's market, and it was never observed to overflow. The real net change to this area is only the 5 spaces lost from re-striping. 8. Overflow parking at City Hall (25+ spaces) is not included in any of the calculations for this year's IUP. However, it is still available, as needed. Staff is confident that the site will be able to bear the parking burden of the Farmer's Market this year with the adjusted numbers given on the revised IUP. We want to make sure we are not requiring an unreasonable restriction on the TCCU property. The adjusted parking figures reflect real usage based on last year's experience, corrected parking stall counts, and a reasonable allowance for TCCU's business use on Farmer's Market days. The IUP will be revisited again next year. At their regular Apri127'~ meeting, the Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend approval of the IUP to the City Council. • 9