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• Previous parking studies have shown that there is virtually no correlation between the square footage of a store and its resultant peak parking demand. If using square footage to predict parking needs, a rate of one parking space per 600 square feet could be applied to new Contractors' Warehouse stores that will be located in shopping centers, and a rate of one parking space per 960 square feet could be applied to new stores that will be located in industrial areas. If only one rate is to be used, it should be the maximum rate observed: one parking space would be required for every 600 square feet of the building in order to provide enough parking for the peak parking demand at all types of stores on the 5"' busiest day of the year. • Previous parking studies have shown that the number of transactions and/or the amount of annual sales are better predictors of parking demand than square footage. For example, if there are two stores of identical size, the store with more customer traffic (and therefore sales) will have a higher parking demand than the store with fewer customers. • The resultant parking ratios ranged from 2,738 annual transactions per required parking space at the Montebello store to 1,915 annual transactions per required parking space at the Pomona store. • The average transaction rate is 2,327 annual transactions per required parking space. Using the average rate would over-estimate the parking needed for lower performing stores and under-estimate the parking needed for higher performing stores, and therefore is not recommended. • It is recommended that the different rates be used according to the store location type. Specifically, a rate of one parking space per 1,915 annual transactions could be applied to new Contractors' Warehouse stores that will be located in shopping centers, and a rate of one parking space per 2,740 annual transactions could be applied to new stores that will be located in industrial areas. • More store locations would need to be studied in order to refine these rates and/or calculate a more robust average rate for both store types. • It is important to note that the rates detailed above do not predict the additional amount of parking needed to provide cart storage, sales displays, and storage of store merchandise and equipment. The additional parking spaces required for these uses must be estimated and added to the parking demand predicted by the equations in order to arrive at the total number of parking spaces to build. • The predicted parking demand should be increased by one parking space to account for stray carts that may take a parking space out of service for a short time. rv 31Az35