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5. The provisions of Section 921.010.0 of this Ordinance are considered and satisfactorily met. Issues to consider with the location include: o External access o Parking o Parking of buses o Loading and unloading of buses The applicant (Market Place Shopping Center) indicates that the most appropriate space would be suite #320 which is the old Duebers location which is approximately 10,300 square feet. As can be seen from the site plan (Exhibit B), the main access to this location is via the mall corridor. There is one exclusive rear exit which appears to have access to the office or back room area. Technically, this site could be made to conform to the first condition for bingo stated above. Since the bingo hall will most likely be open past the mall's operating hours, the problem of security for the rest of the mall becomes an issue since bingo patrons would be entering the mall wile the remainder of the shops are closed. If this site is to be considered, the mall operator or bingo tenant must provide plans or strategies acceptable to the City to police the mall and restrict bingo patrons to the actual site only. Parking would be provided by the existing parking lot. Currently there are 710 parking spaces available to the mall, excluding Rainbow Foods which has parking adjacent to its location. Current parking is more than double what would be required by ordinance for a mall this size. Dividing spaces by square feet, the proposed Suite 320 would be allotted approximately 114 spaces based on a bingo operation. No specifics have been given on the capacity of the proposed space, so for comparison to complete parking demand, capacity numbers from the existing Little Canada Charity Bingo site will be used. From a NAC planning report dated 1986, capacity was stated as 450 patrons. A parking ratio of two per car yield 235 spaces required. Using this figure to compare the current request suggests the bingo use would require twice the number of spaces allotted to it. Taking into account the mall provides 300 spaces more than required, the mall's existing parking appears capable of accommodating the parking demand of a bingo hall. Parking demand might possibly be reduced with patrons arriving by bus. Since it is reasonable to expect a certain amount of bus traffic to deliver customers, the site plan must address where the buses will park so as to not interfere with parking for other patrons to the mall. 2 Page 52