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• 6. Future Parking Requirements 6.1 Parking Required for Current Travel Behavior As noted in section 4.5 the total parking required to meet the needs of current travel patterns for the County Campus is calculated to be 1,720 parking spaces. If these current travel behaviors continue into the future, about 1,795 parking spaces would be required by 2005 to meet all of the needs, as shown on Table 6. Table 6 Parking Demands Based on Current Travel Behavior 2001 2005 Employees 1,190 1,255 Fleet 270 270 Jurors 90 90 Visitors Long Term 80 85 Short Term 90 95 Total Demand 1,720 1,795 6. 2 City Code and Industry Standards Section 34 of the City of Everett Zoning Code identifies parking requirements for different types of land uses in the City of Everett. "Government administrative offices" is one of the land use codes identified. The code generally requires one parking space per 400 square feet of gross floor area for"government administrative offices". However. the County Campus is located within the Downtown Business District's "B-3 Zone". which requires only one parking space per 800 square feet of gross floor area. In the City Code "jails and correctional facilities" are defined as special property uses which are subject to Section 34.030 of the code and require review by the planning director after consultation with the city traffic engineer. The applicant is required to provide sufficient information to demonstrate that the parking demand for a specific use will be satisfied and the planning director may require a parking study to be undertaken. Other industry standards were also reviewed to evaluate the amount of parking that the County should provide in its long-range Campus Plan. The Institute of Transportation Engineers publishes a manual which provides parking rates by the number of employees and by the floor area. Land Use "730—Government Office Building" is the appropriate code. The parking rates are 3.84 parking spaces per thousand square feet of floor area and 0.77 parking spaces per employee. The ITE Manual cautions, however, that the sample size for its data is very small and that half of the facilities surveyed were located in suburban locations. Using the ITE floor space ratio, the County would require more than 2,600 parking spaces today and using the ITE employee ratio, the County would require about 1,334 parking spaces today. CRI Transportation Impact Analysis Page 13 June 2002