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CASE NUMBER: APPLICANT: 0 1416-83 Leonard Vanasse material, the school will offer courses principally in secretarial and accounting services. The courses are generally ten months in duration, and 80 percent of the applicants are women. The students come from the Metropolitan Area in general, some by private car, some by carpool, some by bus and some are dropped off by relatives or friends. An area of 8,000 square feet has 40 parking spaces allocated to its use. If the college occupies the full floor, the allocated space is calculated to be 51.5 spaces. There is a parking requirement listed in the Ordinance for colleges which stipulates one parking space per classroom, plus one space for each seven students, calculating approximately 2,000 square feet for administration space adds an additional ten spaces equalling approximately 45 parking spaces. Thus, there is approximately six spaces left over in accordance with this requirement. The problem is, however, that the allocation of one parking space per seven students is based on a typicel.college with on -campus dormitory facilities. 4. The presence of the Minneapolis Business College in Roseville would appear' to be an asset to the City in terms of convenience to its citizens, and the enhancement of community image and prestige. The principal problem is one of the adequacy of parking facilities. The problem is that it is difficult to ascertain the parking needs for such a school in a location as proposed. Public junior colleges and technical schools in the suburban areas each have vast parking facilities, and in most cases are located in relatively rural surroundings without significant bus services. We know of no other private college of the nature of the Minneapolis Business College in suburban communities to serve as a guide to parking needs. Bradford Schools with whom we have discussed this proposal at some length have most of their colleges located in central business districts with the exception of one in St. Louis. Here they have a ratio of one parking space for every six students, and find that a satisfactory ratio. 5. The Roseville location is served by three bus lines, one of which is a 20 minute service from St. Paul, another which is an hourly service from Minneapolis, and a third is a morning and evening route running generally along Lowry Avenue to Robinsdale. The extent to which students would use these bus facilities is difficult, of course, to ascertain. The president of the school, Mr. Zillman, informs us that extensive measures are made to establish carpools among the students, and that in his opinion the approximately 51 spaces available for an ultimate enrollment of 200 students would be adequate. Mr. Vanasse who owns the office building to the west (across Herschel Avenue) indicates that 21000 square feet of that building is iceupied by a computer and that, thus, in theory some additional parking capacity will be available on that site. He also notes that the southerly half of the car parking facilities serving the Rosedale Towers is normally not used, and that perhaps some arrangement could be made in the future for utilization of some of this space. lie also notes that the parking facility furnished by LaBelle's across the street to the west and north is