4310 COLBY AVE 2018-01-01 MF Import

F � ' � �"`".a �� Del Russell, President { Board of Ad,7ustment ' ;',�I�C4'�G' � PHOM �t � . Public Works Department � °ATE Oetober 1, 1979 1� �' SU�JLCT Item 1V� Agenda of October 1� 1979 CITY OF CVERETT. [VLqETT. WASMINGTCN ' " �� Board of Ad,justment Heariru3 � C, Having received the Board of Ad,justment^on September 26, 1979, for the Variance Hearing on a request at the southwest corner of Colby and 43rd to provide three- fourths of the required off-street parking spaces rather than the required 81 spaces, the Public Works Department would ordinarily request a postponement of the item for an in depth review in order to supply the Board of Ad�ustment tiith a specific, supported recommendation. However, Public Works has been involved in substantial, recent parking reviews in the area that allows the Department to conclude that a month's delay or, this proposal would result in a supported strong recommendation for denial based on the following known information. 1. No special circumstances apply to this site or neighborhood that would allow non-adverse input from this Department. 2. The site is centrally located in an area heavily impacted by an existing on-street parking problem. 3. The quality of life in the neighborhood has deteriorated as ' a result of an on-street parking problem as is evidenced by i�put including petitions sent to the Traffic Engineer, Transportation Advisory Committee, and City Couneil to take action to correct the parking problem experienced by neighborhood. The current txo-hour parking restrietion resulted from the numerous alternatives considered. 4. Commonly, the Zoning Code for off-street parking requirements for clinics and professional offices has been shown to be less than or barely adequate for these uses as is evidenced by the parking problems in virtually every neighborhood containing sueh a facility. Reducing the"�`q�irement by 18 spaces�ode places an unnecessary burden on this neighborhocd. 5. The parking survey provided by the applicant does not refleet what is commonly experienced in parking studies taken by the City in those same areas. Example: Their survey shows 43rd Street, Hoyt to Rucker, as having 20 3paces and 13 of those occupi.ed. There is a mazimum of 12 leaal soaces in that bloek Their survey shows that 16 spaces exist on 43rd Street in the block ad,jacent to the proposed Clinic and further showed that 10 were full. There are 15 leaal soaces and at least 4 snaces will be lost bv proposed Clinic drivewa,�, resulting in one remaining space for overflow from the clinic. 6. The expected escalation ot growth in the area will result I� in further demand for on-street parking. 7. Assuming that their oceupancy figures are correet, there are 43 vehieles parked in 60 spaces (City's figure) leaving 17 vacant spar.es, some as far as 2 blocks away from the Clinic. These 17 vacant spaces would be required to absorb the entire overload of just the new Clinic. Note: The 18 off-street spaces - �-