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\ ......'..... . .... !...~...... ~~. I ,. . \~, 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 350 · Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401 USA · (612) 332-0421 · F;.. ~ ~.. . . ~. ....' ~~ . . . . '.. . . !K~ I,~~ I ~ l'/~O~ I j$~ I I I January 14, 1994 " BARTON-ASCHMAN ASSOCIATES, INC. Mr. Maurice Anderson Director of Parks and Recreation City of New Brighton 1975 Silver Lake Road New Brighton, MN 55112 Re: New Brighton Family Center Parking Calculations (Revised January 14, 1994) Dear Mr. Anderson: As I suggested in our November 18 letter to you, we have done some research of other community centers in the Twin Cities area to try and confirm our conclusions on the number of parking spaces that will be required for your facility. In general, our findings are as we expected--it is difficult to make a direct comparison between facilities because no two are completely similar. Each includes components that the others do not and vice versa. We have~ however, derived enough information from that activity to make us more comfortable with our initial recommendations regarding parking demand at the New'- Brighton facility: At, this point I do not believe that any amount of additional analysis would help us get a firmer grip on the potential parking demand. Our findings then, are summarized below:, 1. Peak parking demand will occur on weekdays. During these times all major building components have the potential to be in use. See the enclosed table for breakouts of individual building space. 2. We believe that the numbers in the table (which are based on interviews with primary building occupants) represent an average "high-demand" time period, but not the facilities peak. Maximum demand periods are likely to be 5 to 10 percent higher on weekdays and 10 to 15 percent higher on weekday evenings and Saturday mornings. These maximum demand periods likely will occur perhaps once per month. Satisfying this maximum demand will require providing 250 to 275 spaces on a weekday and 225 to 250 spaces on a Saturday. Furthermore, I believe that there will be several peaks during the year during which demand at the 300-space level is likely to be exceeded. This amounts to a peak demand of 4.0 . ~:T' to. 4.5 spaces per thousand square feet of building area. ~ 3. These estimates are based on the facilities within the center achieving average to ;;.,.t:;.. good popularity-with patrons (after a typical "break-in" period). Variables.:'': including facility'design and planning and programmiIigcould increase or decrease '." these estimates; . (~ )PARSONS · TRANSPORTATION GROUP An Equal Opportunity Employer