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Staff approves reduced parking for 50 Bridge Street hotel after demand analysis, developers to pay in-lieu fee
Summary
City planners accepted a parking demand analysis for the proposed 56 Bridge Street hotel and allowed elimination of an entire level of structured parking in exchange for a $400,000 in-lieu payment to the city's parking fund.
City planning staff approved an administrative reduction in required parking for the proposed hotel at 50/56 Bridge Street after reviewing a professional parking demand analysis and an offer from the developer to pay an in-lieu fee.
Jason Welker, Sandpoint's planning and community development director, said the hotel team submitted a study by national engineering firm Kimley-Horn that estimated peak demand for the operation would be about 144 parking spaces. Under Sandpoint's off-street parking rules, hotels and associated restaurants and event spaces typically trigger a much higher required parking count; when staff applied the code formula earlier in the process the raw requirement was 244 spaces. The developer's revised site plan proposed 145 spaces and…
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