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Planning Commission • <br /> Planning Case No. 461-96:Mounds View Square <br /> October 8, 1996 <br /> Page 2 <br /> • <br /> According to the site plan provided by the applicant, Mounds View Square has 102,275 <br /> square feet. The applicant is proposing to add 5,000 additional square feet to the main <br /> shopping center building,just south of Mario's Video, and to replace the two existing, <br /> freestanding restaurants with larger dinner house style restaurants each having up to 6,000 <br /> square feet. The existing Hardee's contains 3,750 square feet; the existing Bridgeman's <br /> Ice Cream Restaurant also contains 3,750 square feet. The net increase in square footage <br /> on the site would be 9,500 square feet. Expansion of the restaurants and the retail <br /> building would eliminate 23 parking spaces. The end result would be a shopping center <br /> with 111,775 square feet and 454 parking spaces. The parking ratio provided, using the <br /> gross square footage in the shopping center, would be one space per 246 square feet or <br /> 4.06 parking spaces per 1000 square feet of shopping center. <br /> Analysis: <br /> The first issue which needs to be addressed is what the parking requirements are for <br /> Mounds View Square, before discussing how they might be modified either through a <br /> variance in parking ratios or use of joint parking facilities. • <br /> The Zoning Code includes a schedule of off-street parking requirements based on types of <br /> uses. The chart below shows the amount of parking required if these ratios are applied to <br /> the uses in Mounds View Square. It also shows two other ways of calculating parking <br /> requirements: <br /> • using alternative parking ratios obtained from surveying other jurisdictions <br /> • accepting the existing parking count of 477 as covering the existing square footage <br /> and calculating the additional parking spaces needed for only the net additional <br /> square footage <br /> Space#/User Retail Storage Dining Kitchen Mall/ Total <br /> Maintenance/ <br /> Restrooms <br /> 1:Bridgeman's 2400 1350 3750 <br /> 2:Marios 7150 600 7750 <br /> 3:Vacant 11500 2800 14300 <br /> 4:Com Credit 475 450 925 <br /> 5:Minn Fabrics 8150 1400 9550 • <br /> 6:Nails 840 120 960 <br />