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Planning Commission • Case No. 461-96:Mounds View Square November 6, 1996 Page 2 square feet to the main shopping center building,just south of Mario's Video, and to replace the two existing, freestanding restaurants with larger dinner house style restaurants each having up to 6,000 square feet. The existing Hardee's contains 3,750 square feet; the existing Bridgeman's Ice Cream Restaurant also contains 3,750 square feet. The net increase in square footage on the site would be 9,500 square feet. Expansion of the restaurants and the retail building would eliminate 23 parking spaces. The end result would be a shopping center with 111,775 square feet and 454 parking spaces. The parking on site when compared with the gross square footage in the shopping center, provides a ratio of one space per 246 square feet or 4.06 parking spaces per 1000 square feet of shopping center. Analysis! Recommendation: Our previous report calculated the parking requirements for Mounds View Square using several different methods and ratios for retail square footage and restaurants. The current proposal is to work from the existing base of 477 parking spaces as the requirement for the existing square footage in the shopping center. The square footage includes the . following: Existing Existing+Expansion Use Square Footage Square Footage Retail: 62,005 66,005 (+4,000) Storage: 16,645 17,645 (+1,000) Dining: 8,050 11,290(+3240 net) Kitchen: 6,060 7,320 (+1260 net) Mall/Maintenance/Restrooms 9,275 9,275 Total 102,035 111,535 The expansion of the shopping center would remove 4,800 square feet in dining space and 2,700 square feet in kitchen space, and add 4,000 square feet in retail, 1,000 square feet in storage, 8,040 square feet in dining, and 3,960 square feet in kitchen space. The total square footage in the center with the changes and additions would 111,535 square feet. The addition of building square footage would remove parking spaces so the total on the site would be reduced from 477 to 454. The applicant is requesting a variance in the parking ratio used for retail space, from 10 parking spaces per 1000 square feet to 4.5 per 1000 square feet, and in the ratios for restaurants. The current ratio required for restaurants is 1 parking space per 40 square feet of dining area, and 1 space per 80 square feet of kitchen area. The proposed ratio is 1 space per 80 square feet for both dining and kitchen space for dinner house type restaurants, and the current ratio for fast food restaurants. No parking would be required