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<br />Mr. Enrique Legaspi <br />February 9, 2005 <br />Page 5 <br /> <br />For a weekend day, Santa Ana Downtown Plaza is forecast to experience a peak <br />parking demand at 2:00 PM with a demand of 525 spaces (Table 4). With an on-site <br />parking supply of 505 spaces, the project site is forecast to have a parking deficiency <br />of 20 spaces. <br /> <br />Based on the theoretical shared parking analysis, Santa Ana Downtown Plaza will <br />have parking deficiencies at 1 :00 PM and 7:00 PM on a weekday, and 2:00 PM and <br />3:00 PM on a weekend day. It should be noted that these parking deficiencies are <br />based on generic parking utilization profiles not specific to the project site. As shown <br />in Table 1, a few of the existing tenants close at or prior to 7 :00 PM on a weekday or <br />are closed on Saturday and/or Sunday. As such, the theoretical shared parking <br />demand forecast for a typical weekday and weekend day may be too conservative and <br />not representative of actual conditions at the Santa Ana Downtown Plaza. <br /> <br />Therefore, an additional shared parking analysis for Santa Ana Downtown Plaza was <br />prepared based on actual parking surveys at the project site to determine realistic <br />parking demands. The findings of this analysis are presented in the following <br />sections of this report. <br /> <br />PARKING SURVEYS <br /> <br />To determine the current parking demand characteristics of the existing uses at Santa <br />Ana Downtown Plaza, parking surveys were conducted by Transportation Studies, <br />Inc. (TSI) on a "typical" weekday and weekend. The parking surveys, which were <br />performed at one-hour intervals between 8:00 AM and 10:00 PM and consisted of <br />counting the number of parked vehicles within the on-site surface lot, were conducted <br />on Thursday, August 26,2004 and Saturday, August 28, 2004. <br /> <br />Please note that only one suite (designated for retail use) was vacant on the days that the <br />parking surveys were conducted. However, all of the current tenants were in full <br />operation on these same days. <br /> <br />The results of both weekday and weekend parking surveys are summarized in Table <br />5. This table presents the parking demands at the study site for each hour of the count <br />day and the corresponding percent utilization. As shown in Table 5, the project site <br />experienced a peak parking demand of 255 spaces (50% utilization) at 12:00 PM on <br />the weekday. During a weekend day, the project site experienced a peak parking <br />demand of298 spaces (59% utilization) at 2:00 PM. <br /> <br />1-. \2)(""2'H~5"J\Rep0n\~59] bm" Expan,ion Shared Parking "naly'" 0:-09-0156 -wfI 7 <br /> <br />