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Sandpoint mayor, planning staff defend in-lieu parking fee process amid public concern over City Beach hotel
Summary
Mayor Grama and planning staff told the Sandpoint City Council on Feb. 19 that there is no missing payment, no building permit, and no collected in-lieu fees tied to the proposed hotel at 56 Bridge Street, and that a site-specific parking demand study authorized by city code reduced the project’s required on-site parking from the ITE manual figure.
Mayor Grama and planning staff told the Sandpoint City Council on Feb. 19 that there is no missing payment, no building permit, and no collected in-lieu fees tied to the proposed hotel at 56 Bridge Street, and that a site-specific parking demand study authorized by city code reduced the project’s required on-site parking from the ITE manual figure.
The mayor said city code 9-5-1(e) allows property owners to submit site-specific demand analyses rather than rely on Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) tables, and that the owner of the 56 Bridge Street parcel produced a regional study finding a 41-space demand rather than the roughly 141 spaces implied by the ITE hotel standard. "So that has been done," the mayor said,…
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