31A - CUP - 2800 N MAIN ST UNIT 1100

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CUP Nos. 2014 -30 & 2014 -31 August 25, 2014 Page 3 ABC license. No outdoor seating is proposed at this time. The on- premise sale of alcoholic beverages to customers is intended to provide a service ancillary to the primary use. Overall alcohol storage and display areas will contain approximately 37 square feet, which is less than one percent of the floor area and is consistent with the SAMC requirement of maintaining five percent or less of the gross floor area of the restaurant for alcohol storage and display. The proposed hours of operation for the facility are from 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m., seven days per week. Approval of a separate CUP for after -hour operations is not required for the project due to its distance from any adjacent residential properties. Primary access to the project site will be provided from the existing roadways stemming from Main Street, Mainplace Drive, and Broadway (Exhibits 4, 5, and 6). Project Background Westfield MainPlace contains nearly 200 stores, restaurants, a cinema, and a handful of anchor stores and opened in its current configuration in 1987. Before its opening, the site contained a Bullock's department store that was constructed in 1954. Subsequent additions in 1958 enlarged the site, then known as Fashion Square, to a total of 35 stores. In 1986, the majority of the project site was redeveloped into the current indoor mall that exists today. This redevelopment included the construction of the former Robinson's anchor building, which later became the Men's Macy's store building that is the subject of the current reconfiguration. Since its opening in 1987, Westfield MainPlace has undergone a series of rehabilitations to accommodate new stores and restaurants, as well as exterior fapade enhancements. In addition to several liquor license conditional use permits and sign variances approved during the site's history, Variance No. 1996 -01 established an overall parking supply ratio requirement of 4.1 spaces per 1,000 square feet for all uses at MainPlace. This variance requires a total parking supply of 4,635 parking spaces for the 1,130,523 square feet of floor area for all uses at the site. The current proposed project, which is consistent with the uses identified in the variance, will maintain a parking supply in excess of that 4,635 total requirement. The anchor building currently undergoing reconfiguration to accommodate Round 1 Entertainment and other tenants originally opened in 1987 as a Robinson's department store. Since then, the building continued to contain several department stores, including Robinsons -May, which went defunct as a company in 2006. After the nationwide closure of these stores, including the MainPlace location, Macy's opened men's clothing stores in many of the former Robinsons -May buildings. The MainPlace Men's Macy's store closed in 2012, leaving the anchor building vacant. Since then, Westfield has explored many re- tenanting options for the site, including the current reconfiguration option. 31A-5