31B - CUP - 1901 NORTH FAIRVIEW ST

Home Browse Search

City of Santa Ana Parking Impacts Environmental Checklist The proposed project would provide for adequate parking to serve the proposed project. The project proposes to provide 146 onsite parking spaces. The City of Santa Ana Municipal Code (Sections 41- 1401 and 41 -1327) provides the City's parking requirements for individual land uses, The code requirements related to the project include: • High school: one space per 150 sf of classroom floor area, plus one space for each 333 sf of office floor area. • Fraternity and sorority houses and dormitories: one space for two beds or one space for each 80 sf of sleeping area, whichever is greater. Pursuant to the municipal code, the project would require a total of 211 parking spaces, which equals 0.47 spaces per student. However, based on field observations and studies at neighboring schools as described in the TIA, 211 spaces would oversupply the school by a ratio of nearly 2 :1. The TIA determined that the parking demand to student ratio did not exceed 0.22 spaces per student during any of the field studies. To provide a conservative parking estimate for the proposed project, an additional 25% was added to the 0.22 spaces per student ratio to provide a generation rate of 0.28 spaces per student. Based on this generation rate, operation of Phase 11 would result in a demand of 126 parking spaces for students of the proposed project. The dormitory parking generation rate listed above is typically applied to college campuses in which all residents are licensed drivers and half of which have personal vehicles. Because the high school would serve foster youth, who have less access to personal vehicles, the realistic parking needs of tite project's resident students is anticipated to be much less, and personal vehicles are likely limited to the 16 guardians that would reside onsite. Therefore, the City's municipal code requirement (that would provide 30 spaces) is not consistent with the needs of the project. Given the nature of the project, a rate of 2.5 spaces per residential unit, equaling 20 spaces would appropriately serve the residential portion of the project. These 20 residential parking spaces, when combined with the 126 parking spaces serving the school facilities totals 146 parking spaces, as shown in Table 3 -27. Given the nature of the users of the institution, 146 parking spaced is deemed adequate to supply parking to the Academy. However, because this adequacy differs from the parking requirements in the City's Municipal Code, the project will require approval of a parking variance. Table 3 -27. Project Parking Requirements per Parking Needs Assessment Project Amount Parking Requirement Required Component Proposed Per Unit Spaces High School 450 students 0.28 spaces per student 126 Guardian 8 units 2.5 spaces per unit 20 Housing Total Required Parking Spaces 146 Proposed Parking Spaces w/ Project 146 Parking Surplus /Deficiency ( + / -) 0 Source: Linscott, Law & Greenspan, Engineers, Parking Needs Assessment and Special Event Parking Management Plan, 2012. The Academy Charter High School 3 98 June 2012 Initial Study /Mitigated Negative Declaration Icf 00914.11 lki 1:9 •�