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VN-221, LP-116 PAGE #2 STAfF COMMENTS A. Formula ..Used For Required Parking The zoning code does not specifically establish parking requirements for a bar. Staff feels that there are two means of calculating parking.. The parking requirement for a restaurant is 1 parking space for every 2 seats. Using this formula the addition of 90 seats requires 45 additional parking spaces in addition to existing 22 required .spaces. The gross retail sales area .formula would require 13 additional spaces. Under the retail sales formula for the entire building 35 parking spaces would be required and with the proposed 38 spaces, no variance would be required. The formula of retail sales is probably not adequate and the formula for a.restaurant is probably tao restrictive for the proposed use. Staff contends that-the required parking should realistically be somewhere in between those numbers. The require- ment for 67 spaces is the extreme or maximum case in the opinion of staff. Section 12-050 m. of the zoning code states that the City Council may consider-the joint use of a parking area (other than residential) where it is known that because of a time element, the parking facilities will not be needed by more than one of the users thereof at one time." This section of the zoning code somewhat relates to this proposal in that the peak parking demand. for the wine bar is .predicted to be at a different time than the peak parking demand .far the shopping center, Section ]2-050 m, does not totally apply because the shopping center hours and wine bar hours will overlap at times. Staff feels it should be noted that the overlap in hours and its affect on parking should be minimal. If the hours of operation were completely separate, a variance application would not be necessary. The parking spaces required for the existing building are calculated on a gross retail sales formula. The main floor of the existing building is 4400 square feet and gross sales area is figured to be 50% of that-area or 2200 square feet. The zoning code requires 1 parking spaces per 100 square feet~of gross sales area which would be 22 parking spaces required in this instance. The attached traffic counts for the existing site indicate that at no given time did the package store generate 22 cars at once. To summarize the parking .formula used by staff the following points can be made: 1. That there is no specific parking requirement for a "bar";