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WaL.KER Mark Pfeifer May 1, 2009 S~,4RK rJG C~::~PSUCfA!~lT~ Page 7 As Table 1 shows, parking demand will be highest on a typical weekday evening, assuming that the Marriott hotel uses their meeting space in a manner similar to the Doubletree Club Hotel. The peak parking demand will be easily met by the total available parking supply of 658 stalls. Projected daytime parking demand, shown in Figure 2, will result in a deficit of 39 spaces at 5:00 PM, and a deficit is projected to occur throughout the design day. This design day demand necessarily assumes that both hotels will be hosting a meeting simultaneously. With those spaces allocated to the Doubletree Club Hotel removed from the parking supply available to the Marriott, and with the assumption that the Marriott will mark its meeting space in a similar manner, building the Doubletree Club Hotel as proposed would likely result in a chronic parking shortage for both the Doubletree Club Hotel and at the Marriott. TANDEM PARKING Tandem parking sometimes is used to increase the efficiency of a parking facility. While this technique can improve the capacity of a parking area, tandem parking presents operational issues if deployed inappropriately. In order to fully utilize a parking area with tandem parking, it is necessary to use valets or lot attendants in the facility or it will be impossible for those who use the first tandem parking stall to retrieve their vehicle later, when others have used stalls behind them. When the tandem spaces are more than a small fraction of the available parking, the more conventional spaces have a tendency to fill earlier. Some drivers, for reasons of their own, are reluctant to use valet parking when other convenient parking is readily available. Only when valet parking is the only available option (where guests are not allowed to park their own vehicles) can the parking area be filled in the most efficient manner. In the case of the existing parking lot adjacent to the proposed Marriott hotel, where 43% of the parking spaces are tandem, it will be natural for many drivers to park their own vehicles, suggesting that some drivers will tend to fill available non-tandem parking spaces first. Without active management of the entire parking area, and clear enforcement of reserved spaces, the 25 spaces that should be available to the Doubletree Club Hotel may often be occupied by guests of the Marriott hotel. Even with signs to reserve parking spaces for the exclusive use of the Doubletree Club Hotel, guests to both hotels may be confused by the need to park in a lot adjacent to one hotel with signs reserving space for another nearby hotel. 75B-257