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AUG -06 -1999 13:43 <br />NAC 612 595 983? P.02/05 <br />FACNORTHWEST ASSOCIATED CONSULTANTS <br />CCM'MUNITYPLANNING - DESIGN - MARKET RESEARCH <br />INC <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: • Little Canada Mayor and City Council <br />FROM: Stephen Grittman <br />DATE: August 6, 1999 <br />RE: • Little Canada - P'arking Standards Analysis, <br />FILE NO: 758.10 - 99.09 <br />This report summarizes our review of the'.City's parking standards, .as requested by the <br />City Council. As the Zoning Administrator has noted in her report, the city's 'method of . <br />calculating parking requirements changed in,198b, when the Ordinance went to a use - <br />based requirement, rather than a:dlstrict -based requirement. The example given in that <br />report illustrates the problems with a district -based standard, and no other ordinances that <br />1 am aware of use that method any longer. <br />We utilized three primary sources for our research. "The first was.an American Planning' <br />Association report which provides a quite.comprehensivesummary of parking ordinances <br />from around the country. As mentioned above, all of the ordinances are use based. Some <br />rely on square footage of buildings, and some•rely on employee counts. Little Canada's <br />ordinance utilizes a combination of the two, as do 'many other metro area ordinances. <br />Other ordinances which 'we have on fiie'.were also reviewed in summary to note if the <br />standards applied are significantly different, as a whole, than the standards used by Little <br />Canada. Finally, we utilized a study compiled by the Institute of Transportation Engineers <br />which examined actual parking demand of various 'uses.' The data in this report is <br />provided on square footage, and employee counts, where applicable. Some of the ITE <br />data is based on relatively few studies. <br />Finally, rather than review every land use for which the Ordinance has a requirement, we <br />chose a few uses which generate the most oommon analysis,, or Which have been the <br />• subject of the greatest concem. These uses are: Retail commercial; Office; Automotive <br />service; Storage; Manufacturing/Fabrication; and Residential: • <br />• <br />• 5775 WAYZATA BOULEVARD, SUITE 655 ST. •LOUI•S PARK, MINNESOTA. 554115 <br />PHONE 6 1 E -595 -9636 FAX .612-505-9837 <br />Page 31 <br />