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Another source of parking demand information is available from Parsons Transportation Group, Inc. who conducted case studies in 2005 of two Contractor's Warehouse Stores located in Pomona and Montebello. This study (copy attached) is quite comprehensive with regard to parking demand for this specific use and delves deeply into numbers of sales transactions and surrounding location (industrial versus retail) as well as actual parking counts to produce recommended parking guidelines. Summarizing briefly what this exhaustive study found was that the maximum parking demand at anytime was 88 spaces at Montebello and 99 spaces at Pomona. These stores are 76,000 sf and 65,000 sf, respectively. The report concludes that the absolute maximum peak parking demand on any day of the year is 88 spaces for Montebello and 116 spaces in Pomona. The Montebello store more closely approximates that which is proposed in Santa Ana because both of its size (76,000 sf) and its location in an industrial area. The Pomona store with its somewhat higher parking demand is situated in a conventional large retail center. The Parson's report provides an overall recommendation of one parking space per 950 sf (1.05 spaces per TSF) for this type of use located in an industrial area. TRAFFIC ANALYSIS Access to the site is provided by two driveways, one on East Fourth Street, and a second provided on Santa Fe Street which is for a truck dock. The main entrance will be Fourth Street between Terminal Street and Santa Fe Street. The second driveway on Santa Fe Street is restricted to a truck dock for delivery of supplies to the site by large tracker-trailer vehicles. This driveway is not used by the general public. Fourth Street is striped with four travel lanes and a two-way left turn median. No parking is permitted on Fourth Street which means visibility entering and exiting these access points is good. Access to the main parking lot is also provided by a driveway near the cul-de-sac end. The two-way left turn lane on Fourth Street serves both of the site entrance as well as Santa Fe Street. With the locations to enter the site from a left turn on Fourth Street (all of which include a left turn lane for stopping and waiting for a gap) no significant traffic queues are expected for the site. The prior study looked at the La Habra Contractor's Warehouse for a case study that included driveway counts of vehicles entering and exiting the property during the AM and PM peak periods on a Monday in January 2007 (actual data is included in the appendix). These counts show that the existing Contractor's Warehouse generates a modest 48 trips during the AM peak hour (26 trips inbound and 22 trips outbound) and 46 trips during the PM peak hour (21 trips inbound and 25 trips outbound). The Santa Ana HD Supply Repair and Remodel Site 5 Austin-Foust Associates, Inc. Traffic and Parking Analysis Update 1217001 rpt.doc 31A-25