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Commission approves Cardinal Glass parking reduction with conditions after staff finds shift-based operations and added spaces
Summary
Planning staff recommended approval of a parking reduction for Cardinal Glass despite an 85–128 space deficit under two accounting methods; staff required the company to build 21 additional spaces within six months and to return if employment increases beyond study assumptions. The company representative said the 21 spaces have already been completed.
The Planning & Zoning Commission approved a request by Cardinal Glass Industries to allow a parking reduction tied to a recent small expansion of the plant, subject to staff conditions including the construction of 21 added parking spaces within six months.
Planner Sabrina Miller presented the request and the staff analysis: the site’s parking would go from 205 spaces to 187 after the expansion, a loss of 18 spaces. Under the Ocala code calculation staff said the new improvements would require 272 spaces (an 85-space deficit), and an ITE-based calculation would require 315 spaces (a 128-space deficit). Miller said the facility is shift-based and staff’s recommendation reflected operational patterns and automation that reduce on-site employee counts at any single time.
"The proposed expansion will cause the parking to go from 205 parking spaces to 187 spaces due to losing those 18 spaces for the expansion," Miller said. Staff recommended approval with conditions requiring the 21 additional spaces be built within six months of approval and requiring the applicant to return for a new study if employment grows beyond the assumptions used in the parking analysis.
Tom Harkman, representing Cardinal Glass, told the board the company had already completed the 21 spots requested by staff. "We've already completed the 21 spots that, were requested," Harkman said, and described operational scheduling that keeps large numbers of employees from being on-site at the same time.
The commission voted to approve the parking reduction with the stated staff conditions.
