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<br />TEMPLO CALV ARlO CHURCH <br />Traffic and Parking Study <br /> <br />INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />Templo Calvario Church, located at 2617 West Fifth Street in the City of Santa Ana, is proposing <br />to expand its sanctuary seating from 1,200 seats to between 2,200-2,400 seats. The City of Santa Ana has <br />a municipal code-parking requirement for churches to supply one off-street parking space for every three <br />fixed seats within the main auditorium, plus 1 space for each 35 square feet of floor area in any seating <br />area without fixed seats. The church would have fixed seating areas and are required by the municipal <br />code to have 752 off-street parking spaces for the expansion. The church is planning on supplying 630 <br />off-street parking spaces on Sunday's for the expansion and is requesting a variance of 122 parking <br /> <br />spaces. <br /> <br />ANALYSIS <br /> <br />The church holds three services on Sundays: 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM and 12:00 PM. Actual parking <br />counts were conducted during the church services on May 18t\ May 25th, June 1st and June 8th of 2008 <br />(See Appendix for count information). The parking counts reveal that the peak parking demand occurs <br />during the 8:00 AM church service, which had a peak parking demand of 351 parking spaces and <br />averaged 333 occupied spaces as shown in Table 1. <br /> <br /> TABLE 1 <br /> CHURCH PARKING COUNTS <br /> 5/18/08 5/25/08 6/1/08 6/8/08 Minimum Maximum Averal!e <br />8:45 AM 349 318 330 351 318 351 333 <br />10:45 AM 193 187 191 236 187 236 199 <br />12:45 PM 278 276 242 278 242 278 263 <br /> <br />In addition to the parking counts, vehicular occupancy was also observed and recorded. The <br />vehicle occupancy varied slightly between the days and church service times and ranged from 1.36 to <br />2.83 passengers per vehicle and averaged 1.77 passengers per vehicle. Based on a maximum parking <br />demand of 351 spaces for an average 8:00 AM morning service attended by 1,350 people equates to a <br />vehicle occupancy of 3.85 persons per vehicle, which suggests that a large number of people either walk <br /> <br />Templo Calvaria Church <br />Traffic and Parking Analysis <br /> <br />Austin-Foust Associates, Inc. <br />925002T A.doc <br /> <br />75C-29 <br />