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<br />The second approach taken to evaluate the peak parking was to perform actual field counts of the <br />existing parking lot. These counts were collected in December, 2003 when the retail was fully occupied <br />including the current vacant market. The results of those parking counts conducted on multiple days <br />including Saturday in December, 2003 revealed a maximum of 127 spaces were ever occupied at anyone <br />time, With a total of 370 spaces available this means that even at the shopping center's peak parking <br />demand, there were still over 240 empty spaces, more than adequate to accommodate the 50 spaces <br />needed for the proposed restaurant uses. <br /> <br />The big difference in the peak parking demand predicted by the ULI shared parking analysis (i.e., <br />370 spaces) clearly suggests that this retail center is not typical of the large mixed use centers included in <br />the nationwide ULI study. Floral Park Promenade is a diverse mixture of retail, office, consultants, <br />restaurant and other non-typical retail uses that produce a parking demand much different than the typical <br />retail and office developments. This is clearly evident by the nearly empty parking lot (127 spaces out of <br />370 used) even with all spaces in the center occupied, while the ULI shared use procedure indicates the <br />entire parking lot would be filed. Although the two analyses produce radically different estimates of peak <br />usage, they do both confirm that the existing 370 spaces is adequate. <br /> <br />Floral Park Promenade <br />Parking Analysis <br /> <br />6 <br /> <br />Austin-Foust Associates. Inc. <br />899001rpt.doc <br /> <br />iS~~36 <br />