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Mark Pfeifer WALKER May 1, 2009 ~~a~t~~r~c; ~~JTasulT~r~.ii~ Page 3 Further discussion about the types of daytime functions revealed that the Doubletree Club Hotel regularly hosts independent functions and meetings for local businesses, luncheons, health fairs, job fairs and other social events. The Doubletree Club Hotel also hosts regular monthly dinners for business associations and is booked for weekend functions. As the Doubletree Club Hotel sees a clear need for the availability of these additional 25 spaces both during the evening and the daytime, these parking spaces should not have been included in the parking supply. Without the 25 spaces in question, the proposed Marriott will have a supply of only 158 parking stalls during the daytime on weekdays and 658 stalls on evenings, nights and weekends. As the hotels will be similar in size and service, it is reasonable to assume that they will also directly compete for the services mentioned above, likely increasing the demand for parking at the Marriott hotel. SHARED PARKING ANALYSIS Since the early days of automobile use, one of the fundamental principles of site planning has been to share parking resources rather than have each land-use provide its own spaces for parking. With the advent of large mixed-use commercial and "life style" centers, this principle has been utilized in this type of development to use land more efficiently and be able to provide higher land uses than automobile storage. Shared parking is possible when parking spaces can be used to serve two or more individual land uses without conflict or encroachment. Allowing multiple entities to share parking spaces has led to the creation of many popular developments and districts, resulting in the addition of office, residential, retail, and entertainment districts that rely heavily on shared parking for economic viability. Mixed-use projects have also profited from the shared parking principle, which offers multiple benefits to a community, not the least of which is the environmental impact of significantly reducing the amount of parking required to serve commercial developments as well as the ability to create a more desirable mix of uses at one location. 75B-253