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JUNE 17 2014 VOTE ON To THE DEPOT AT SANTIAGO PAGE 3 Match the terms of the West side also to the East side of N. Santiago Street: Currently, there is a "No Stopping 7pm - 6am" restriction on the East side. This makes no sense - our guests cannot park anywhere near our residences after 7pm, so apparently they are supposed to move their cars mid - dinner. I believe this was originally meant to handle safety and security problems that are no longer an issue, and will not be an issue based upon the claims of The Depot's developer as to safety and sufficient parking. Require an additional 50 parking spaces: With the most recent information that we have access to, the Depot at Santiago has 156 bedrooms, which reasonably require 1 parking space each. Above that, 25% guest parking is required (or at least reasonable), mandating 39 additional spaces. Logic - and please consider this over the numbers of "3.33 spaces per 1,000 square feet" - logic dictates that a business would have enough parking for its employees, plus at least 2 to 5 clients. With the Depot's management, The Wooden Floor, and at least 3 other businesses, we can assume something on the order of 20 employees (4 each). If each business has just 3 spots for clients, that's another 15 spaces. It's likely that The Wooden Floor will need additional spaces beyond this calculation, but for now we have: 156 spaces (I per bedroom) 39 guest spots ( +25 %) 20 employees 15 customers 230 TOTAL The need, logic says, is 230 parking spaces - yet there are only 157 planned spots. While we have heard that the project meets the mandatory requirements, we appeal to your logic. This is just not an accurate nor sufficient amount of space. To add to the problem, Santiago Street Lofts were also woefully underparked, and every Tuesday the now "both sides of the street" sweeping causes a parking log -jam on top of the already problematic issues. Unfortunately, forcing people to walk to the train station is, as I can tell you from personal experience, terrible for business, potentially unsafe, and always inconvenient. It is especially problematic with the inability for one to remove their car or park at the station between approximately midnight and 6am. (If you are unaware - and much to my surprise when I desperately needed my car one night - the train station locks cars inside during the late night hours). A developer will nearly always tell you that parking is sufficient; but their numbers will always sway towards their desire for less expensive parking - as they did right here at the Lofts - meaning the developer will push hard for the fewest spots possible. And while the Planners may say that "2.25 cars per unit" is sufficient, this needs to be reasonably adjusted based on the reality of the project. Again, we do understand that the statistical numbers claim the development has the correct amount of parking, but we ask you to further research the issue, consider the current parking overcrowding, and impose at least 5o additional spots (and that number still a compromise on what's actually needed) based upon logic and the actual needs of the community. On this topic, we are more intimately familiar with the needs of the area, and yet the numbers are still derived from those furthest from the problem.