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Pianning Commission <br />Planning Cas� No. 461-96: Mounds View Square <br />October 8, 1996 <br />Page 7 <br />but the .busiest 19 hours of th� year. The applicant nas noi caused the multipiier effect o� a <br />higher-than-typical parking ratio on the size of his shopping cenier. <br />The development of dinner house style restaurants is noi anticipated by the parking <br />regulations which require one parking space %r every 40 square feet of dining area and <br />one paricing space for every 80 square %et of kitchen. TypicaI ratios for dinner house <br />restaurants are one space for every 80 square feei o� gross square footage, to recognize <br />the slow�r turnover of customers. <br />e. That the variance requested is the minimum variance which would �ileviate the hardship. <br />Ecoe�omic conditions alone shall not be considered a hardship. <br />The parking ratios �or retaii square footage in the Mounds View Zoning Code create an <br />excessive requirement for shopping centers of this size. The City's parkin� ratio at one <br />space per 100 feet is more thar� twice the ratio used in other nearby jurisdictions, and <br />when applied to a shopping center of over 140,000 square feet, creaies a burder�socne <br />requirernent. The more typicat requirement is 4.0 tl 5.0 spaces per 1000 square feet. <br />A1lowing the use of 4.5 spaces per 10a0 square �eet for retaii space is the minimum <br />variance needed to address the hardship. The parking ratios for restaurants also create an <br />excessive requirement for dinner house style restauranis, since these restaurants have a <br />slower t�rnover of custocners. The minimum adjustment needed in parking ratios for <br />dinner house style restauraxrts is to require one parking space for each �0 square feet of <br />gross flaor area. <br />b. The IiteraI interpretation af the provisions of this Titte would deprive the applicant of rights <br />commonly enjoyed by other properties in the same district under the terms of this Title. <br />d. That g�anting the variance requested will not con%r on the applieant any special privilege <br />that is denied by this Titie to owners of other lands, structures or buildings in the same <br />district. <br />Qwners of shopping centers similar in size to Mounds View Square and of dinner house <br />style restaurants would face ths same difficulty that the applicant is experiencing due io <br />the higher-ihan-typical parking ratio for fhese uses in the Zoning Code. Using a ratio of <br />10 spaces per 1 �00 square feet for retait space, and 1 space per 40 sauare feet for dining <br />space requires an excessive investment in parking which is especially acute with the <br />shopping center of this size. <br />f. The variance wouid not be materially detrimental to the gjupose of this Til-ie or [o other <br />-. property in the same zone. <br />g. The proposed variance wiil not impair an adeqnate supply of light and air to adjacent <br />