75A - PH - ZONING ORD AMENDMENT - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

Mr. Jonathan Kohn January 27, 2011 Page 6 Restaurant Uses For this analysis, three categories of restaurant uses/profiles, family (high-tumover), casual/fine dining and fast-food, were considered in projecting the parking requirements of the existing and future mix of restaurant tenants. According to the ULI Shared Parking, 2"d Edition publication, "family" restaurants are typically lower priced restaurants that do not accept reservations, and lack bars and lounges, although some offer bottled beer or wine. Many serve breakfast, lunch and dinner. Examples include a pancake house, cafeteria-style restaurants, diners and coffee shops and moderately priced ethnic restaurants. Fine/casual dining restaurants typically includes a more leisurely dining experience, are lower turnover and higher priced; bars and lounges are secondary to the restaurant and reservations are accepted. Few serve breakfast and some do not serve lunch. Casual dining restaurants are popular, moderately priced restaurants that have active bar and lounge areas where people gather to socialize and wait for tables. They commonly serve lunch and dinner, but some also serve breakfast. Fast-food restaurants do not offer or serve alcoholic beverages and food is typically ordered at a counter and then either carried out of the store or to a table. Some uses in this category include sandwich shops, ice cream shops, and so on. Give the above categories and in reviewing the existing tenant mix, the majority of the uses would generally fall in the category of "family (high-turnover) restaurants" and were evaluated as such. Therefore, the restaurant use profile utilized in this parking analysis for the majority of the existing food uses and potential future tenants is based on a family (high-turnover) restaurant (typically non fast-food). Please note that in our experience, the utilization of this category is a good indicator/ representation (can be considered a "hybrid") of the hourly parking demand of both fine/casual dining and fast-food restaurants, as the peak daytime and evening parking demand for family (high-turnover) restaurants generally occur during the lunch time period (similar to fast-food uses) and dinner period (similar to fine/casual dining establishments). Like the retail profiles, the restaurant profiles are derived exactly from the ULI baseline. The restaurant-parking ratio utilized in this analysis exactly matches the City code rate of 10 spaces per 1,000 SF of floor area. According to the Shared Parking publication, family restaurant uses peak demand occurs between 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM on weekdays and weekends. 75A-27