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Item 5a Staff Report RESOLUTION N0. 1932 PLANNING COb7MISSION EXHIBIT "A" January 14, 1981 SUBJECT: UP-80-35 APPLICANT: Marcia Meyers - TAM Investment Company PURPOSE: ATTACHMENTS Application for a conditional use permit to operate a cocktail lounge in the shopping center under construction at the northeast corner of Hopyard Road and Valley Avenue. 'The property is zoned C-C (Central Commercial) District. 1. Site Plan 2. Staff Report to dated 12/10/80 the Planning Commission This matter was continued from your meeting of 12/10/80 to allow the applicant to further work with staff regarding parking for the proposed use. At issue during the last meeting was what amount of traffic would be generated by the cocktail lounge during the day. In an attempt to answer this question, five similar cocktail lounges in the East Bay Area were surveyed. Unfortunately, data was received from only three of those businesses. All three respondents operate cocktail lounges approximately the same size as the one pro- posed by Ms. Meyers - around 90 seats. Everyone contacted indicated that day time business was only one-quarter to one-third as great as the night time volume. Applying the one-quarter standard to Ms. Meyers' proposed cocktail lounge of 90 seats would mean that she would need between 7 and 8 parking spaces during the day. Her proportional share (based upon square footage) of parking spaces in the Hopyard Center would be 7.36 spaces. Therefore, if cocktail lounges operates at only one-quarter capacity prior to 5:00 P.M, the 7 spaces available to her should suffice. After 5:00 P.M. when many of the other center businesses are closed, supplying addi- tional parking spaces for her increased business should not be a serious problem. Staff Recommendation: Based upon the foregoing analysis, the staff feels that UP-80-35 can be granted subject to the following conditions: 1. That approval of this use permit is for a 2500 sq, ft. or smaller cocktail lounge at the subject location shown on the attached site plan. Said cocktail lounge shall have no more than 90 seats and shall not serve food of any type.