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Applicant and staff disagree on required parking for Malone Ford expansion
Summary
Staff and the applicant presented differing interpretations of the code’s parking requirement for Malone Ford: staff counted total lot area and reported a requirement of about 360 stalls while the applicant’s calculation focused on sales-lot area and produced a lower number (276); commissioners asked for a definitive staff memorandum and clarified striping noncompliance on the existing site.
A central point in the Malone Ford hearing was a numerical disagreement over how the city's parking standards apply to the dealership properties. Community development staff counted required stalls using total lot area and told the commission the combined property would need about 360 stalls under the code as interpreted by staff. The applicant’s representative, Cal Johnson, used a different interpretation (counting only sales lot area) and reported a required total of roughly 276 stalls, which, with the proposed 60 new stalls, would put the combined total near compliance under the applicant’s method.
Cal Johnson said the applicant's calculations produced 276 required stalls and that adding 60 stalls would result in 287 total stalls under their assumptions. "Our total stalls required came out at 276," Johnson said. Commissioners requested staff to prepare a short memorandum explaining the correct code interpretation, to verify whether existing striped stalls match the originally approved plan, and to prepare a clear comparison of both calculation methods before the July 6 continuance.
