1 miramar beach resort and bungalows project 2 - Santa Barbara ...

1 are proposing.
2 Also our underground parking is a vast
3 improvement for aesthetics and site design since it
4 allows for a tremendous amount of additional open space
5 without a field of asphalt for surface parking. If you
6 had an opportunity to listen to the December 7th MBAR
7 meeting, it was one of the features that received the
8 most favorable comments.
9 And as the staff report points out, our
10 proposed plan has 96 more parking spaces than the
11 Biltmore Four Seasons while having a similar or less
12 intense use.
13 The County recognized the parking industry
14 standard ULI's, Urban Land Institute, shared parking
15 analysis based upon parking demand and more specifically
16 on the reality that individual parking stalls
17 accommodate more than one use on a site, meaning shared
18 uses and the time periods of parking demand for all
19 hotel uses do not occur concurrently. We've used this
20 method for our parking analysis.
21 However, the County for purposes of its
22 parking ordinance does a straight-line analysis which
23 assumes no overlap in uses such as restaurant guests and
24 hotel guests. By this straight-line analysis, we are,
25 quote, "underparked" by 120 spaces and thus require a
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