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Resolution No. PC-2006-37 Page Three The Downtown is unique compared to other commercial areas in the City in that many properties lack private parking lots, and on-street public parking is largely used to satisfy parking demand. Granting the parking variance would result in the project's use of four additional public parking spaces Downtown. Users of these four spaces will add traffic to Downtown streets looking for available spaces, but this traffic increase would be insignificant. Furthermore, this project would contribute in-lieu parking fees to construct future Downtown pazking spaces, and the City has also budgeted monies to construct parking Downtown. Once constructed, these parking lots will ease users' ability to find pazking Downtown and, in turn, slightly reduce traffic created by users' searching for available parking. Therefore, the present and anticipated future traffic volumes of the site and uses of the sites in the vicinity do not reasonably require the strict or literal interpretation and enforcement of the parking requirements for this project, and the first finding can be made. That the granting of the variance will not result in parking or loading of vehicles on public streets in such a manner as to interfere with the free flow of traffic on the streets. Granting the parking variance would result in the project's use of four additional public parking spaces Downtown. The project's use of these spaces would not be unusual for the Downtown and would not create adverse parking impacts or interfere with the free flow of traffic on the streets. In addition, the proposed project would create one new on-street public pazking space, and the City is planning to construct a public parking lot in the Alameda County Transportation Corridor (ACTC) that would help accommodate parking demand generated by existing businesses Downtown, the subject project, and future development. Furthermore, the applicant's proposed removal of the existing parking lot and driveway would improve the flow of traffic on Division Street. Therefore, the second finding can be made. 3. The granting of the variance will not create a safety hazard or any other condition inconsistent with the objectives of this chapter. Approval of the pazking variance would result in the project's use of four public parking spaces Downtown. The Downtown public parking spaces are properly designed and arranged to provide safe ingress and egress. Furthermore, the existing angled parking spaces on the subject property are unsafe, as they require users to back up out of the parking lot, across the sidewalk, and onto Division Street. The parking lot would be removed with the proposed project, thereby improving vehicular and pedestrian safety on the property and along Division Street. Therefore, the granting of the variance will not create a safety hazard or