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f�ounds View Pl�nning Comrrzission Regular Meeiing November 6, 1996 Page 3 house restaurants recognizes the lower customer turnover as compared 4o fast food restauranis. Sfiaff has prepared Resofution No. 4�5-96 which wauld approve a variance in parking ratios for fihe expansion of il�ounds View Square She then explained the request for joint use of parking facilities. Th� number of parking spaces needed for the expansion wo�ld be 492, if the new raiios are applied to the fooiages being deducted and added. This number is higher than to ane reported at the Commissior�`s last m�eiing, and is 38 more spaces than will be on the siie with the expansion (454). It is not possible to add these spaces through r�striping to compact size stalls, which had been fihe Commission's suggestion at fihe las� meeting. The applicant was proposing an 8% credit for offsetting daytim� and nightfiime uses to show thaf the 454 spaces were adequate to meet the parking demand on the site. Staff had prepared Resolution No. 486-96 which would re�ommend to Cify Council tha� a conditional use permif be approved ailowing for the 8% reduction in parking spaces based on joint use of parkir�g facilities between daytime and nighttime uses. Cornrnissiorrer Brasaerrrle asked if the variance in ratios woufd result in a `'' requirement for 492 spaces and wanted io verify if the conditional use permit w a s n e e d E d t o g e t t h e number down to the 454 s paces, which fihe appiicant was � proposing to provide. We also asked if the maximum allowabEe cross-over between night and day use is 50 percent and if siaff was proposing an[y 8 percenfi. i Comrrrissioner Stevenson asked if there is any alternafiive #o the spaces the shopping center is losing for the storage area, why is fhe 5,000 square feet needed and what use woufd go inio it. Mr Streeter explained that they initiaily praposed io expartd the shQpping center further ta the south. in discussions with staff, ifi was noted that expansion in thafi direction woc�ld c�use more than one row of parking to be losfi so they reduced the expansion to save all i�ut one row of parking. �i�air Peterson asked howr the signage at Marios would be aifected by the expansion. M� Sireef�r said he expected that whoever r�nted ihe new area would want to have ifi for their advet�ising, or there was a possibility thaf Marios would move over and ihe. new tenant would accupy the space in between. C�mrrrissiorte� Ober°� asked if the new parkir�g compufatior�s incfuded ihe eliminafion of the 23 spaces ot� the south side ofi the building. Qirector Sheldon explained that they were included, a�d that is why the parking cnunt went frorr� 477 to 454.