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Rosedale Commons Addition, Case No. 2178 Page 2 <br />provide parking to serve the additional 4,500 square feet <br />of mall area that will be converted to retail space, a <br />6,900 square feet that has been used for retail will be <br />converted to storage. The location of this lower level <br />space is shown on Exhibit l.c. This is the space that was <br />previously occupied by Comb Liquidators. A review of the <br />specific parking standards related to these changes is <br />presented under parking below. <br />3. DEVELOPMENT ANALYSIS <br />Plannina Considerations <br />This development was approved through the old procedures <br />that required a Special Use Permit for site plan approval. <br />Consequently, since the changes anticipated in this <br />proposal were not shown on the approved site plan, an <br />amendment to the Special Use Permit must be approved. <br />It should be noted that the actual physical changes on the <br />site are quite limited and they would not trigger either <br />the size or value thresholds recently adopted in the new <br />design standards for code compliance. If it were not for <br />the fact that there is an existing Special Use Permit in <br />place, this sort of application would have been reviewed <br />by the Development Review Committee. <br />Parking <br />The proposed development affects required parking by <br />physically removing 12 parking spaces to provide space for <br />the loading dock. It also creates an additional demand <br />for parking by converting 4,500 square feet of mall area <br />to retail space. At five spaces per 1,000 square feet, <br />the 4,500 square feet of retail would create a demand for <br />an additional 22.5 spaces. <br />The applicants propose to address this situation by <br />converting 6,900 square feet of existing retail space to <br />storage. The 12 spaces removed from the back of the <br />building would have served 2,400 square feet of retail <br />space. If you add the 2,400 square feet that was served <br />by the 12 spaces to the 4,500 of retail to be added, it <br />equals the 6,900 square feet that were in retail that will <br />be converted to storage. <br />The parking requirement for storage areas is one space per <br />2,000 square feet. Therefore, the 6,900 square feet would <br />require 3.5 spaces. Technically the proposal that the <br />applicants are making would result in a net loss of 3.5 <br />