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<br />Amendment Application No. 2008-06 <br />Conditional Use Permit No. 2008-05 <br />Variance No. 2008-04 <br />Site Plan Review No. 2008-02 <br />August 25, 2008 <br />Page 6 <br /> <br />To address the parking shortage, the traffic engineering firm of Austin- <br />Foust Associates was retained to prepare a parking analysis for the <br />project. Austin-Foust conducted parking counts on four consecutive Sunday <br />mornings in May and June 2008 to attain an accurate parking demand for the <br />church. Based on their analysis of actual peak parking demand, they <br />determined that, based on a passenger per vehicle rate of 3.41, a total of <br />587 parking spaces would be required for the church expansion project. <br /> <br />Although the parking variance request is to allow a reduction of on-site <br />parking by 352 spaces, the applicant has entered into an agreement with <br />the SAUSD to secure the use of 115 parking spaces at the District's <br />warehouse site, bringing the overall effective variance request to a <br />reduction of 237 spaces and brings the total of available spaces to 406. <br />Further, approximately 200 on-street parking spaces are available within <br />the industrial area immediately to the south. Although these spaces are <br />not included in the 406 space total, they should be considered in the <br />church total as they are available for use as the industrial businesses <br />are primarily closed on weekends. As shown on Table 1 below, the number <br />of on-site spaces, along with spaces at the SAUSD sites and the on-street <br />parking spaces, brings the total of available church parking spaces to <br />606, which is 37 spaces less than the number of spaces required by code <br />but exceeds the estimate of the Austin-Foust study. <br /> <br />Table 1 <br /> <br />Parking Location <br /> <br />Number of <br />Spaces <br />291 <br />115 <br />200 <br /> <br />606 <br />643 <br />37 <br /> <br />On Site <br />School District Warehouse Site <br />On Street <br />Parking Subtotal <br />Parking Required by Code <br />Parking Shortage <br /> <br />The church originally intended to enter into an agreement with OCTA to <br />provide 312 spaces within a section of the Pacific Electric right-of-way <br />immediately north of the church site. However, due to the uncertainty of <br /> <br />75C-8 <br />