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Planning Commission <br />Plaruung Case No. 461-96 <br />October 8, 1995 <br />Page � <br />Mounds View Squaee <br />property or substantialIy increase the congestion of the public streets or increase the danger <br />of fire or endanger the public safery or substantiallv diminish or impair properiy values. <br />The existing shopping center contains 102,d35 sc}uare feet and has 477 parking spaces, or <br />a ratio of 4.67 parking spaces per 1400 square feet. The applicant has nine shapping <br />centers, of wl�ich four are in the same size range as Mounds View Square. The average <br />parking ratio for these four centers is 4.72 parking spaces per 10�0 gross square feet <br />regardless of use. The successful operation of these centers illustrates the fact that using a <br />ratio of 4.5 spaces per I000 square feet for retait space is an appropriate ratio and will not <br />be detrirr�ental to the purposes of the Zoning Code. LTse of a ra�io of 10 spaces per 1 d00 <br />square feet is burdensome. The parking lot for Mounds View Square is oisufficient size, <br />and the shapping center contains nighttime and daytime uses with offsetting parking <br />demands thai no overflow parking or adverse ef�ect on adjacent properties is anticipated. <br />The shopping centec is separated from surrounding �ases by streets. <br />�i <br />5taff ltecorremendaiioaa: Favorabie to allowing a ratio of 4.5 spaces per 1000 square feet <br />oinet retail space in Mounds View Square, with space in storage, mechanical rooms, rest <br />rooins and the enclosed rnall excluded from parking calculatians. Favorable to allowing a <`'� <br />ratio of I space per 80 feet of gross floor area in dinner house style restaurants. The <br />parking ratio for fast food restaurants would remain at i space per 40 square feei in dining <br />area and 1 space per SO square feet in kitchen space. <br />If these ratios were applied to the proposed square footage in Mounds View Square, the <br />parking requirement would be: <br />� retail <br />• dinner house restaurants <br />• fast food <br />s new retail <br />• new sq.ft. in dinner house restaurants <br />� reduction in fast food <br />a base <br />total <br />spaces to be provided <br />If calculated <br />from scratch <br />299 <br />150 <br />124 <br />573 <br />454 <br />If assuming <br />a base o�477 <br />18 <br />150 <br />188 <br />477 <br />457 <br />454 <br />If parking requirements are calculated using 477 as a base, then the applicant is within three <br />spaces of having su�icient parking for the new uses added if credit is given for the square faoiage <br />in restaurants being removed. <br />