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4.8 PARKING AND ACCESS Adequate parking is necessary to service the full -range of uses permitted within a development project. In order to enhance the appearance and character of the Metro East area, parking should not be a part of the pedestrian level streetscape. The goal of the Metro East area is to provide adequate parking that encourages people to "park once" and conveniently walk to multiple destinations in the same area. Standards below reflect this concept except in the Neighborhood Transition District where parking is established at a rate that does not impact the adjacent residential neighborhood to the north. The parking standards for the MEMU Overlay Zone are designed to accommodate the wide variety of uses in the area while providing an incentive for mixed-use projects that encourage an active street life and convenient services and leisure activities for Metro East residents and visitors. A mixed-use development is defined as any development that contains more than one type of use in a building or set of buildings and contains within the development a residential component. Stand alone uses are defined as operations or uses that are not a component of an integrated mixed-use development project. Dimensions of parking spaces and drive aisles shall be consistent with SAMC Article XV, Division 1. A. Parking within the MEMU Overlay Zone shall be required for new development in each district as follows: 1. Neighborhood Transitional District a. Stand-alone residential: 2.0 spaces per residential unit, inclusive of guest parking b. Office or other permitted nonresidential uses: As required by Division 3 of Article 15, Off -Street Parking Requirements, SAMC. 2. Village Center District a. Stand-alone nonresidential Uses: As required by Division 3 of Article 15, Off - Street Parking Requirements, SAMC. b. Stand-alone Residential Uses:As required by Division 3 of Article 15, Off -Street Parking Requirements, SAMC. c. Mixed-use Developments with less than 10 percent of the gross floor area devoted to a commercial activity: A minimum of 1.8 spaces per residential or live/work unit inclusive of guest parking and any nonresidential uses. d. Mixed—use developments with 10 percent or greater of the gross floor area devoted to a commercial activity: Any development proposal that devotes 10 percent or more of the development's gross floor area to a nonresidential use shall be required to provide a parking study by a city approved consultant to establish an adequate parking requirement for the mixture of uses in the proposed development. In no case, however, shall a standard of less than 2.25 spaces per unit inclusive of guest parking and any nonresidential uses be established. 3. Active Urban District a. Stand-alone Nonresidential Uses: As required by Division 3 of Article 15, Off - Street Parking Requirements, SAMC. b. Stand-alone Residential Uses: As required by Division 3 of Article 15, Off -Street Parking Requirements, SAMC. c. Mixed-use Developments with less than 10 percent of the gross floor area devoted to a commercial activity: A minimum of 1.8 spaces per residential or live/work unit inclusive of guest parking and any nonresidential uses. d. Mixed-use developments with 10 percent or greater of the gross floor area devoted to a commercial activity: Any development proposal that devotes 10 percent or more of the development's gross floor area to a nonresidential use shall be required to provide a parking study by a city approved consultant to establish an adequate parking requirement forthe mixture of uses in the proposed development. In no case, however, shall a standard of less than 2.25 spaces per unit inclusive of guest parking and any nonresidential uses be established. 4. Office District a. Office or other permitted nonresidential uses: As required by Division 3 of Article 15, Off -Street Parking Requirements, SAMC. B. In addition to the parking requirements above, new developments in the MEMU Overlay Zone shall provide parking in compliance with the following: 1. Guest parking at a rate of 10 percent of the total required parking spaces shall be set aside and assigned for the exclusive use of guests in any development project within the MEMU Overlay Zone. 2. All residential units shall be provided a minimum of one (1) assigned space per unit.