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INTRODUCTION The Qwik Korner Retail Center is located on the northwest corner of Sunflower Avenue and Main Street in the City of Santa Ana. Qwik Korner consists of grocery, alcoholic beverage sales, convenience and delicatessen uses where made-to-order sandwiches and lunch items can be ordered and taken out or consumed on-site. The existing Qwik Korner market is 2,202 square feet. The adjacent suite is 1,018 square feet. Javatinis coffee house occupies 994 square feet of the center and there is one vacant suite of 1,002 square feet. The Applicant proposes to relocate the existing delicatessen located within the existing Qwik Korner Market to the adjacent 1,018 square-foot suite in the retail center. The space being vacated by the delicatessen will be used for more grocery displays, including imported sodas and waters, exotic chips, and additional refrigerated coolers.A site plan for the center is provided on Figure 1. The City of Santa Ana Plannin~a Department has requested that a parking study be conducted to 1) document the existing parking demand at the retail center and 2) to conduct a parking analysis using the Urban Land Institute (ULI) shared parking model. SITE DESCRIPTION The retail center is approximately 5,200 square feet. There are currently 26 parking spaces in the retail center parking lot. The streets surrounding the site are Main Street on the east and Sunflower Avenue on the south. Vehicular access to the site is provided via one driveway on Main Street and one driveway on Sunflower Avenue. Both driveways are restricted to right turns in and out only as there are raised median dividers on Sunflower Avenue and Main Street. REQUIRED PARKING BASED ON CITY CODE The City of Santa Ana stipulates that the parking for a development be based on City of Santa Ana parking code. The City's parking code for general retail uses is 5 parking spaces per thousand square feet (KSF). The Qwik Korner retail center was approved with a parking ratio of S spaces per KSF. In 2006, the applicant applied to the City to allow an independent coffee house (Javatinis) to locate in the center. The City's parking code for food uses is ZO parking spaces per KSF. In September 2006, Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. performed a parking study at the request of the applicant to document the parking rate for an independent coffee house . It was found that an independent coffee house would have a parking rate within the city's code of 5 parking spaces per KSF. Based on the September 2006 study, the applicant was approved to have an independent coffee house at a rate of 5 parking spaces per KSF. The applicant now is asking the City for consideration to relocate the existing delicatessen from the Qwik Korner market to an adjacent 1,018 square-foot suite. The City's parking code of 10 spaces per KSF would apply to this food use. Considering the allocated square footage for general retail uses (4,198 square feet) and 1,018 square feet for a delicatessen, the required parking per city code would be 31 parking spaces. The center currently provides 26 parking spaces. ULI SHARED PARKING ANALYSIS The ULI Shared Parking methodology establishes the stand-alone peak parking requirements for various uses, then applies a percentage to the peak requirement for each use, for each hour of the day between the hours of 6:00 AM and midnight, reflecting the fact that the parking demand for each use varies throughout the course of the day. Parking Study for Qwik Korger Retail Center w ~ ~ _ ~ 3 September, 2008