75B - PH - 6 E MACARTHUR PLACE - NEXUS DEVELOP

Home Browse Search

ZOA No. 2009-04, CUP No. 2009-08, Amend DA No. 05-02 and VA No. 2009-02 April 13, 2009 Page 5 The City has worked with the applicant during project design to ensure that close attention is paid to both the quality of the design as well as its integration within the MacArthur Place project site. The buildings articulation and materials as well as landscaping have been designed to complement the other existing projects in the area, while further enhancing the pedestrian experience as they move through the project area. Additionally, the hotel has provided several amenities including an exercise room, pool and spa, media center, lounge, cafe and bar to accommodate a wide variety of needs for hotel guests. One issue that staff has identified relating to the hotel operation is the potential noise impacts associated with material and trash deliveries and pick-ups along the west side of the hotel adjacent to future residential units. To address this issue, a condition has been added restricting the permitted hours for deliveries between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. Parking Variance Under the previous entitlements, the Cinema Site contained a mixture of residential, retail, office and restaurant space. The project site would have been served by 449 surface and subterranean parking spaces and would have after hour (5:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.) access to an adjacent 500-space parking structure. The shared parking study prepared in 2005 by Kaku Associates found that the project would have adequate parking with the use of the adjacent parking garage, and the City approved a 49 space parking variance for the project based on the shared parking analysis. The new site plan for the Cinema site proposes a 185-room Courtyard by Marriott Hotel, served by a 133-space surface parking lot. In addition to the 133 spaces adjacent to the hotel, hotel guests and employees will have access to 50 of the 500 garage spaces during the daytime on weekdays bringing the total number of available parking spaces to 183 during the weekday and 633 in the evenings and on weekends. The applicant is now requesting a variance from the parking requirements of Section 41-1344 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code to allow a reduction in the required parking. Based on code requirement, a total of 204 parking spaces are required for the hotel use while only 183 spaces are available. Of these 183 spaces, the Double Tree Club hotel, located within MacArthur Place South has an agreement to use 25 of the parking spaces as overflow parking. As a result of this agreement, the effective parking deficit for the proposed Marriott is 46 spaces or 25.1 percent. 75B-7