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Mr. Jonathan Kohn <br />January 27, 2011 <br />Page 4 <br />¦ Childcare facilities: one (1) space for each eight (8) individuals plus one (1) <br />space for each supervisor or teacher. <br />Table 2 summarizes the parking requirements for the existing and proposed mix of <br />tenants, including the proposed health club and assuming 6,600 SF of restaurant/food <br />uses will occupy the vacant space on the I" floor of the Project, at Metroplace using the <br />above-referenced City code parking ratios. As shown, direct application of City code <br />parking ratios to the retail center project results in a total parking requirement of 1,340 <br />parking spaces. With a proposed on-site parking supply of 655 spaces, a theoretical <br />parking deficiency of 685 spaces is forecast. This Code-based deficiency is not <br />realistic because the City Code parking calculation is conservative, and overstates <br />actual parking needs for the proposed health club (Gold's Gym), as will be discussed <br />in the next section of this report. <br />However, as previously mentioned, there is an opportunity to share parking spaces based <br />on the utilization profile of each land use component. The following section calculates <br />the parking requirements for the existing retail center based on the shared parking <br />methodology approach. <br />SHARED PARKING ANALYSIS <br />Shared Parking Methodology <br />Accumulated experience in parking demand characteristics indicates that a mixing of <br />land uses results in an overall parking need that is less than the sum of the individual <br />peak requirements for each land use. Due to the existing and proposed mixed-use <br />characteristics of Metroplace, opportunities to share parking can be expected. The <br />objective of this shared parking analysis is to project the peak (existing) parking <br />requirements for the project based on the combined demand patterns of different land <br />uses at the site. <br />Shared Parking calculations recognize that different uses often experience individual <br />peak parking demands at different times of day, or days of the week, or even months <br />of the year. When uses share a common parking footprint, the total number of spaces <br />needed to support the collective whole is determined by adding parking profiles (by <br />time of day, week, and year), rather than individual peak ratios as represented in City <br />of Santa Ana Zoning Code. <br />75A-25