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• Mounds View Planning Commission November 6, 1996 Regular Meeting Page 3 house restaurants recognizes the lower customer turnover as compared to fast food restaurants. Staff has prepared Resolution No. 485-96 which would approve a variance in parking ratios for the expansion of Mounds View Square She then explained the request for joint use of parking facilities. The number of parking spaces needed for the expansion would be 492, if the new ratios are applied to the footages being deducted and added. This number is higher than to one reported at the Commission's last meeting, and is 38 more spaces than will be on the site with the expansion (454). It is not possible to add these spaces through restriping to compact size stalls, which had been the Commission's suggestion at the last meeting. The applicant was proposing an 8% credit for offsetting daytime and nighttime uses to show that the 454 spaces were adequate to meet the parking demand on the site. Staff had prepared Resolution No. 486-96 which would recommend to City Council that a conditional use permit be approved allowing for the 8% reduction in parking spaces based on joint use of parking facilities between daytime and nighttime uses. • Commissioner Brasaemle asked if the variance in ratios would result in a requirement for 492 spaces and wanted to verify if the conditional use permit was needed to get the number down to the 454 spaces, which the applicant was proposing to provide. He also asked if the maximum allowable cross-over between night and day use is 50 percent and if staff was proposing only 8 percent. Commissioner Stevenson asked if there is any alternative to the spaces the shopping center is losing for the storage area, why is the 5,000 square feet needed and what use would go into it. Mr. Streeter explained that they initially proposed to expand the shopping center further to the south. in discussions with staff, it was noted that expansion in that direction would cause more than one row of parking to be lost so they reduced the expansion to save all but one row of parking. Chair Peterson asked how the signage at Marios would be affected by the expansion. Mr. Streeter said he expected that whoever rented the new area would want to have it for their advertising, or there was a possibility that Marios would move over and thenew tenant would occupy the space in between. Commissioner Obert asked if the new parking computations included the • elimination of the 23 spaces on the south side of the building. Director Sheldon explained that they were included, and that is why the parking count went from 477 to 454.