Agenda Item 8EAGENDA ITEM # 8E
AUGUST 22, 20l l
CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH
CITY COMMISSION MEETING
STAFF REPORT
AGENDA ITEM: South Coast Capital Proposal for Parking in Town Center
SUBMITTED BY: Rick Carper, P.E., Public Works Director
DATE: August 16, 2011
BACKGROUND: Last fall, the Community Development Board granted a parking variance
to South Coast Capital to allow a 60 -seat restaurant (15 parking spaces required) in the
former Bookmark location (5 spaces credit); with the understanding there were 10 new
spaces available on the Neptune Beach side. In July, the restaurant (M Shack)
submitted plans showing 73 -75 seats, adding three additional parking spaces to the
requirement. After working with Staff, South Coast Capital submitted the attached plan
to provide 27 spaces (currently 21 striped spaces) and 10 motorcycle spaces. This
number of spaces meets the requirement of the variance, if the proposed arrangement is
approved. South Coast Capital proposes to bank the remaining three spaces for future
needs.
The proposed plan is not in accordance with current parking lot requirements in that use of six of
the designated spaces requires vehicles to back into East Coast Drive to exit the parking
lot (see Code excerpt below). This backing issue is a safety concern, and the plan also
does not provide any handicap parking spaces or provide landscaping as currently
required. In addition, the new spaces on the east side of the lot block access to the
dumpster enclosures used by several tenants in the block.
South Coast Capital is asking that these six angled spaces be 'grandfathered' and approved,
since the existing parking spaces are the same configuration. Staff considers that a new
parking lot design should conform to current City standards, with the note that many, if
not most, vehicles using these spaces now actually pull in from the interior such that they
exit onto East Coast Drive in the forward direction. This movement will not be possible
with the proposed restriping placing head -in parking on the east side of the angle
spaces.
24 -161 Off - Street Parking and Loading
(f) Location of required Off - Street parking spaces.
(3) Off - Street parking for all Uses other than Single and Two - family
Residential shall be designed and constructed such that vehicles are
not required to back into public right -of -ways.
BUDGET: No current impact — report for informational purposes only.
RECOMMENDATION: No recommendation. Parking issues in Town Center are a
longstanding problem that will require a larger scale solution.
ATTACHMENTS: 1) South Coast Capital Proposed Parking Lot Restriping Plan
2) Aerial view of current parking lot and adjacent vacant lot
REVIEWED BY CITY MANAGER: 4=x/
AGENDA ITEM # 8E
AUGUST 22, 2011
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