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PARKING NEEDS ASSESSMENT <br />and <br />SPECIAL EVENT PARKING MANAGEMENT PLAN <br />The Academy Charter High School <br />Santa Ana, California <br />Updated February 17, 2012 <br />FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS <br />The realistic "design level" parking requirements for the day -to -day operations of the <br />proposed Academy Charter High School, at full enrollment, total a minimum <br />provision of 146 on -site parking spaces, calculated using project- specific parking <br />components and ratios as follows: <br />The provision of 126 spaces to support the aggregate faculty, staff, student (at <br />full enrolIment), and visitor parking needs for the day -to -day operation of the <br />high school itself. This parking provision is based on a "blended" parking <br />ratio of 0.28 spaces per student applied to the ultimate enrollment of 450 <br />students. Application of this ratio does not distinguish between "commuter" <br />and "resident" students, the latter totaling 80 (of the overall 450) to be housed <br />in on- campus "Family Unit" facilities. Derivation of this project -speci (ic ratio <br />has considered the City's own "code" parking requirements in combination <br />with focused parking demand counts at Santa Ana area high schools. <br />• A houseparent parking provision of 20 spaces, reflecting an aggregate ratio of <br />2.5 spaces per unit for each of the 8 proposed houseparent suites to be <br />provided in support of the 80- student "Family Unit" housing component. <br />To manage day -to -day parking operations, this study recommends a student vehicle <br />registration ( "permit ") program that would essentially restrict on- campus student <br />parking to Grade -12 students only, except that other licensed students of driving age <br />may be granted a permit based on criteria that the Academy may establish. In total, <br />the program should be structured such that no more than 80 student drivers commute <br />to campus on a regular basis. This threshold represents approximately 70% of the <br />estimated average Grade -12 enrollment of roughly 113 students (an enrollment of <br />450 /four class grades). Past experience suggests that not all students meeting the <br />Grade -12 parking permit requirement will have access to a vehicle for commuting to <br />campus, even if they are licensed. Thus a limitation to 80 regular student drivers is <br />considered reasonable and consistent with the student population that may want or <br />need to drive to campus, or may live in on -site student housing and also have a <br />vehicle. The latter circumstance is expected to be extremely rare. <br />N ;Zf i-2111? -; . 7}q imJcme, Saaiu AIA (C'" JMW) Lauri. S Fa"TAR}JNG NEEDS 2-17-H&C <br />317 <br />