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Ms. Selena Kelaher City of Santa Ana November 12, 2018 Page 9 of 14 11709-31 Parking Evaluation The existing parking counts show that the parking lot is fully utilized during Sunday Church services typically between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Therefore, due to the overflow parking demands in the Church parking lot, it is expected that peak Church parking demands will overflow on to Edinger Avenue and the neighboring residential streets that include West Regents, South Gate, South Elliot, and Lilac Avenue. This analysis focuses on the on-street parking demands impacting the neighboring residential streets and therefore, does not include vehicles parking on Edinger Avenue. In addition, it is important to recognize that the on-street parking counts include both the overflow Church parking as well as the existing on-street residential parking demands. As shown on Table 10, the existing on-street residential parking demands at 6:00 a.m. on Sunday morning June 17th is 92 vehicles. This increases to a peak on-street parking demand of 103 vehicles at 8:30 a.m., an increase of 11 vehicles that may be attributed to overflow church parking demands. On Sunday, September 16th, the number of vehicles parking on-street that may be attributed to overflow Church parking is estimated at 1 vehicle. TABLE 10: ON-STREET CHURCH PARKING DEMAND ESTIMATE Date On-Street Parking Demands1 6:00 AM 8:30 AM Variance Sunday, June 17, 2018 92 103 +11 Sunday, September 16, 2018 95 96 +1 1 Based on the on-street residential parking counts shown on Table 9 and included in Appendix B. ² Estimated Church on-street parking. This attributes all residential on-street parking demand increases to the Church. With over 92 vehicles parking on-street at 6:00 on the neighboring residential streets, most on-street parking demands on the residential street surrounding the Archangel Michael Coptic Orthodox Church are not related to church activities. Existing parking count observations during Sunday Church services suggests that the church may contribute to an increase of 11 vehicles. The Sunday, September 16th Sunday parking counts even suggests that there were as many cars were parked on-street at 6:00 AM (95 vehicles) than during the peak Sunday Church service activities at 8:30 AM (96 vehicles). It is important to recognize that on-street parking is a public resource that benefits all users in the City and it is not reserved for the exclusive use of any one group. SPECIAL EVENT PARKING DEMAND To describe the peak parking demands associated with the Church, parking counts were collected during a special event on Sunday, June 3rd, 2018. As shown on Table 11, the Church parking lot was at capacity by 7:30 a.m. Starting at 8:30 a.m., the on-street parking demands in the neighboring residential community steadily increased until 11:00 a.m. with a peak on -street parking demand of 159 vehicles. The peak special event parking demands suggest that with 90 vehicles parked on-street at 6:00 a.m. and 159 vehicles parked on-street at 11:00 a.m., special event Church activity may contribute a peak overflow 1-117