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Developer says extra parking provides tenant flexibility; board asks for limits
Summary
Board asked why the plan provides 422 parking spaces when 296 are required; the applicant said extra spaces give flexibility to accommodate different mixes of office and warehouse tenants and noted roll‑up doors and demising walls allow multiple tenant sizes.
Commissioner Mary Ann Edge pressed the applicant on why the plan shows 422 parking spaces when the staff packet lists 296 required spaces. Edge said the difference "seems like a lot more than required" and asked how the extra parking was justified.
Dennis Meeley explained that warehouse projects often include a mix of office and warehouse space and that applicants build extra parking to accommodate a range of future tenants. "In these types of buildings, you're gonna have a percentage of office and a percentage of warehouse," Meeley said, adding that developers design flexibility into bay/dock arrangements so the building can be demised into different tenant sizes without repeating the entitlement process.
Edge also asked whether the buildings were likely to be single tenants or multiple smaller tenants; Meeley said the project can accommodate either a single large tenant per building or multiple smaller tenants and emphasized that the roll‑up doors are sited to be out of public view. The board heard that if future uses or tenant mixes require additional regulatory review (conditional uses), those changes would come back through the public process.
