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Commission opens longer review of minimum parking for strip malls and possible reclassification of eating establishments
Summary
Commissioners discussed how the city assigns parking requirements for multi‑tenant strip-mall buildings, the role of drive-through windows in treating blank tenant spaces as likely eating-and-drinking uses, and possible approaches including a strip‑mall standard, a seating-based classification for restaurants, or shared parking agreements.
Commissioners spent an extended portion of the meeting reviewing how the city applies minimum parking requirements to multi-tenant strip-mall buildings where the eventual tenants are unknown at the time of building permitting.
Staff explained the current approach: retail is typically calculated at 1 parking space per 300 square feet, and eating-and-drinking establishments are calculated at 1 per 100 square feet (or by seats). When a future tenant is unknown staff sometimes selects a use category by assessing building features — for example, a blank tenant space with a drive-through has been treated as likely to become an eating-and-drinking establishment, which increases the parking calculation at the building-permit stage.
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