| establishment would lose business. Regarding that operation, he also |
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| got tires there, and he pre-bought the tires. He had a 9:00 a.m. |
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| appointment, and they got to him at 11 a.m. It was 1:00 p.m. before they |
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| were completely finished. A 45-minute visit became a four-hour visit, and |
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| that was why they ran out of parking spaces. The waiting room was full of |
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| people, and they were not keeping on top of their game. Other tire shops |
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| did not have that problem. Mr. Kaltsounis indicated that they had to |
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| consider if it was just this one establishment. Mr. Anzek said that it was |
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| hard to write a rule to govern one operation that did not seem to make it |
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| work. By design, when the building was laid out, they said there was |
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| ample parking, but that was apparently not true. |
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| Mr. Breuckman remembered that in 2009, they made the choice to move |
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| away from a system where the City said it knew better than the business |
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| owners about parking. The conscience choice was to set the parking |
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| requirements very low, and if people needed more, they would provide it. |
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| Staff was trusting people to know their business. He thought that they |
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| could find examples in any category of businesses that generated more |
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| parking than other users, but he did not want to punish the operators that |
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| did not generate as much parking. Mr. Kaltsounis felt that it was a |
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| discussion they could have. |
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| Regarding off street loading, Mr. Breuckman said that they had to weave |
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| the REC districts in, so for the REC-I and REC-M, which were more akin |
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| to business districts, they added loading spaces required for all buildings |
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| over 20,000 square feet in floor area. The REC-W and REC-C were |
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| woven in with the existing I (Industrial) and SP (Special Purpose) district |
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| loading space requirements. The standards said that they had to be laid |
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| out in a dimension of at least 10 x 50 or 500 square feet in area. They |
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| would delete the “or 500 square feet in area” clause, and they upped the |
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| minimum building size. In the past, a loading dock had to be provided for |
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| any building that was 2,000 square feet or more, but at that size, the |
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| loading dock would take up more space than the building. That was |
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| upped to 5,000 square feet of floor area before a loading zone was |
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| required. Also, in the past, a minimum of five loading spaces plus one for |
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| every 40,000 square feet for a 100,000 square-foot building was required. |
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| There were only one or two buildings in the City that exceeded 100,000 |
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| square feet. That was a requirement where Staff was presuming that a |
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| loading dock might be necessary. The requirements were reduced to |
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| 40,000 square feet for the increment for additional spaces over 20,000 |
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| square feet with a minimum of three spaces for buildings over 100,000 |
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