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<br />Variance No. 2007-01 <br />March 26, 2007 <br />Page 3 <br /> <br />Analysis of the Issues <br /> <br />HD Supply operates as the wholesale division of Home Depot and serves <br />customers of all sizes, including contractors, municipalities, builders, <br />government entities, industrial businesses and maintenance <br />professionals. The organization has nearly 1,000 locations across the <br />United States and in Canada, and over 26,000 associates, with sales that <br />approached $12 billion dollars in 2006 (Exhibit 4) . <br /> <br />HD Supply is proposing to occupy a vacant industrial site and re-use two <br />industrial buildings as a home improvement warehouse, a use permitted by <br />right in the Heavy Industrial (M-2) zoning district. The proj ect is <br />essentially a continuation of use, meaning one industrial tenant has <br />vacated the site and a new industrial tenant is moving in. The project <br />is before the Planning Commission because HD Supply is requesting a 72 <br />space parking variance necessary to occupy the site. <br /> <br />Required parking for the project is two parking spaces per 1,000 square <br />feet of gross floor area as required by the City's industrial parking <br />standards. Based upon a total gross building square footage of 88,020 <br />square feet, 176 parking spaces are required for the project while 104 <br />parking spaces have been provided. <br /> <br />In order to determine whether or not the existing number of parking <br />spaces would be adequate enough to support the new industrial tenant, a <br />parking analysis was prepared by Parsons Transportation Group, Inc., <br />with additional analysis prepared by Austin-Foust Associates, Inc. <br /> <br />The Parson's study analyzed the parking demand for two HD Supply <br />(formally Contractors' Warehouse) locations in the cities of Pomona and <br />Montebello. The Parson's study identified that the maximum parking <br />demand at any time was 88 spaces for the Montebello store and 99 spaces <br />for the location in Pomona. These stores are 76,000 and 65,000 square <br />feet respectively. The Montebello store more closely approximates that <br />which is proposed in Santa Ana because of its size (76,000 square feet) <br />and its location in an industrial area. The Pomona store, with its <br />somewhat higher parking demand, is situated in a large retail center. <br /> <br />The Parson's report <br />space per 950 square <br />in industrial areas. <br />parking spaces would <br />provided (Exhibit 5). <br /> <br />provides an overall recommendation of one parking <br />feet of building area for this type of use located <br />Applying this ratio to the Santa Ana location, 93 <br />be required while 104 parking spaces have been <br /> <br />31A-4 <br />