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ZOA No. 05-03, CUP No. 05-28, VA No. 05-62 and SPR No. 05-05 November 28, 2005 Page 6 Variance The City's parking code for hotel uses requires 205 on-site parking spaces for the proposed proj ect. Two-hundred fourteen parking spaces are provided; however, 24 parking spaces are shared with the Embassy Suites Hotel property directly to the south. A non-exclusive reciprocal parking and access agreement has been established between the two hotel sites; however, the agreement can be terminated upon written notice by ei ther party at any time, eliminating the combined use of these 24 parking spaces. Should this worst case scenario occur, the project site would be deficient 15 parking spaces. A parking study, prepared by P&D Consultants (Exhibit 6) looked at the parking demand for long-term stay business hotels using three separate methodologies. The study compared the City of Santa Ana's parking requirements to the cities of Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Irvine, Newport Beach and Yorba Linda. The study also compared the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) parking generation rates for long-term stay business hotels to City of Santa Ana parking requirements, and conducted a field survey of three long-term stay hotels in Irvine, Anaheim and Newport Beach to determine the ratio of hotel room occupancy to actual parking demand. Applying each city's parking criteria to the proposed proj ect, Anaheim would require 147 spaces, Huntington Beach would require 202 spaces, and Newport Beach would require 92 spaces. The Cities of Irvine and Yorba Linda require parking studies for proposed hotel uses to determine parking demand and the City of Costa Mesa counts hotels with kitchens as a residential unit. Using the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) methodology, the average parking rate generation was 0.91 parking spaces per room, which was based on data collection at 14 hotels throughout the United States. Applied to the proposed project a total of 168 parking spaces would be required. This amount of parking is lower than the 190 parking spaces provided on the project site indicating that there would be enough parking on the proposed ESA site. Finally, long-term stay business hotels in the City of Irvine, Newport Beach and Anaheim were surveyed on October 13, 2005 and October 15, 2005 from 6: 00 a. m. to 12: 00 a. m. to determine the parking demand for each occupied room. Parking demand was calculated for one weekday and one weekend day at these three hotels. The average parking rate for the weekday was 0.81 parking spaces per room and 0.77 spaces per room for 75A-8