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and require employees serving alcohol to undergo a training program, such as TIPS (Training for Intervention Procedures), that is designed to prevent intoxication, underage drinking, and drunk driving. In addition, based on the proposed operation and the anticipated peak periods of time described in the project narrative, staff does not anticipate negatively affecting adjacent properties. Moreover, the lounge's peak operating hours would occur on weekends and after 6 p m on weekdays, which would help minimize parking and circulation impacts due to overlap with the operating hours of some of the other retail and office uses occupying the subject site. Staff has included conditions of approval that will ensure the proposed use would not generate noise, traffic, or parking shortages such that surrounding uses would be adversely affected. Therefore, from a land use perspective, staff finds the proposed use to be acceptable on the site, as conditioned. Should future problems arise with the proposed use, the City would have the ability to bring the application back to the Planning Commission for mitigation, or possible permit revocation, if necessary. Based on the discussion above, staff believes that such an action would be unlikely. Traffic and Circulation The Traffic Engineering Division has reviewed the project narrative and plan that was prepared for the proposed use. and has determined that the proposed hours of operation and the associated number of attendees would not have a significant impact on existing traffic levels. Additionally, the anticipated peak hours for the proposed use would not coincide with the AM/PM peak hour traffic in the City. Parking There are approximately 476 parking spaces available on-site within the Valley Plaza shopping center. Axe lounges are not listed in the off-street parking space requirement section of the PMC. However, bowling alleys, which staff considers to be similar in use and anticipated parking generation, are listed in the PMC and require five spaces for each alley. Based on this requirement.. the proposed use would require a total of 35 parking stalls for the seven axe throwing lanes/alleys. Since the proposed shopping center shares parking with uses that have varying peak times as well as varying hours of operations (including some that are closed on the weekends or during the lounge's peak operating times), staff believes that the shared 476 parking spaces would be sufficient to accommodate the proposed use. In addition, staff has not observed or received any comments in the past regarding parking shortages at the center. As noted earlier in this report, reservations would be staggered to reduce crowding inside the facility; which would also help reduce parking demand. Staff also believes that it is likely that some patrons would carpool together to the facility, further reducing parking demand. Based on the above parking analysis, staff believes that the proposed use would not adversely affect parking supply within the subject center or surrounding properties and that adequate parking exists on-site to accommodate all existing and proposed uses. However; should parking problems occur, staff has included a condition of approval which allows the Director of Community Development to refer the use permit back to the Planning Commission for possible additional mitigation measures to be applied. P19-0140, 1809 Santa Rita Road, Suite A and 8 Planning Commission 6of8