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Planning Commission • Case No. 471-97: O'Neil Property March 28, 1997 Page 6 Highway 10. MnDOT does not have access control in this section of Highway 10 which means they have to grant at least one access to the O'Neil property, but they are opposed at this time to a median break to allow a full movement intersection, or to the addition i f a traffic signal between Long Lake Road and County Road H2. The traffic study prepared for the last meeting showed that the development of this project would not cause the level of service(LOS) at the surrounding intersections to change during the evening peak hour, which is considered the most critical time period for traffic flows on surrounding streets. Numerous questions were raised during the last meeting on the traffic study. A supplemental traffic study is being prepared to address the peak traffic flows from the movie theater, traffic levels which would occur if the site were developed with other land uses, and whether Long Lake Road and Silver Lake Road may be used as routes to the theater from Highway 694. The alternative land uses under consideration include: medium density residential(6 units per acre), townhomes, neighborhood commercial, and offices. This traffic study will not be available for your April 2 meeting, but will be available for your April 16 meeting. A notice of this situation was sent to everyone who signed in at the last meeting. • ■ Parking The City's Zoning Code requires at least one space for each four seats. Off-Street Parking Requirements published by the American Planning Association lists two examples of ratios: 1 space per four seats (Bellevue, WA), and 1 space per five seats (Ames, IA). Mounds View's ratio matches the more conservative ratio. The theater complex is proposed to have 2,648 seats, which would require 662 parking spaces. The applicant has noted on the plan that they will provide 700 parking spaces provided or 38 more than the requirement. Staff has scaled the drawing using a nine-foot stall width, and estimates that the parking bays shown would yield 650 spaces. The drawing however is at a much larger scale-than-would-be-typical Tor_a site plan, and the parking spaces are not drawn. Actual parking provided will be confirmed at the development plan stage. The applicant has provided a parking study done for the Carmike theater proposed in Lancaster, PA. This study includes actual counts of parked cars in two existing multi-screen theaters owned by Carmike: Seats Parking Parking Spaces Ratio (Seats/Space) Greensboro, NC 2,080 528 3.93 Nashville, TN 3,148 831 3.79 Counts were taken on Friday, February 7 from 6:00 PM to 12:00 AM and Saturday, February 8 • from 12:00 noon to 12:00 AM, and were recorded in fifteen minute intervals. Ratios developed were adjusted to account for seasonal variations. According to data from the Urban Land