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<br />EXECUTIVE SUMMARY <br /> <br />Parsons Transportation Group Inc. (Parsons) was retained by The Home Depot to perform a parking <br />study for two of its Contractors' Warehouse stores in the Los Angeles area. Specifically, this study <br />provides a detailed analysis of daily parking activity at two Contractors' Warehouse stores in the <br />Los Angeles area during the fall of2005. These analyses result in parking demand relationships that <br />can be used by Home Depot to estimate the parking requirements of future Contractors' Warehouse <br />stores, both inside and outside of Southern California. <br /> <br />Conclusions & Recommendations <br /> <br />. None ofthe Contractors' Warehouse store parking lots filled to capacity on any ofthe study <br />days. <br /> <br />. The average peak occupancy among the study stores was 69% of the parking spaces <br />available for use. The lowest peak occupancy was 61 % and the highest was 78%. <br /> <br />. At the Pomona store, a certain number of parking spaces were taken out of service by the <br />placement of stacks of building materials and the storage ofrental equipment and forklifts. <br /> <br />· The 5th busiest day was chosen for the design day in this analysis. This means that each store <br />would have adequate parking spaces for the parking demand experienced every hour of <br />every day ofthe year except for during the peak hours of demand on the 4 busiest days ofthe <br />year. <br /> <br />. The two study stores exhibited similar patterns of parking lot use, and experienced similar <br />peak hours of customer and parking activity. However, each store experienced different <br />transaction-based characteristics. This is likely due to the fact that the Montebello store is <br />located in an industrial area and the Pomona store is located in a retail shopping center. (The <br />Pomona store had a higher relative parking demand because it had more visiting customers <br />who did not make a purchase.) <br /> <br />. Based on this study, it appears that Contractors' Warehouse stores located in retail shopping <br />centers attract more browsing customers and therefore need more parking than stores located <br />in industrial areas. <br /> <br />. The resultant design-day square footage rates varied between the study stores, ranging from <br />598 square feet per required parking space at the Pomona store to 957 square feet per <br />required parking space at the Montebello store. <br /> <br />. In terms of building space, the average square footage rate between the study stores was 777 <br />square feet per required parking space. The use of this average to calculate future parking <br />demand is not recommended. <br /> <br />iii <br />A-o <br /> <br />31A-24 <br />