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Item 6c Staff Report PLANNING COtUMISSION December 10, 1980 SUBJECT: UP-80-35 APPLICANT: Marcia Myers/TAf4 Investment Co., Inc. PURPOSE: Application for a conditional use permit to operate a cocktail lounge at the newly constructed shopping center at the northeast corner of Hopyard Road and Valley Avenue. Zoning for the property is C-C (Central Commercial) District. ATTACHI~NTS: 1. Site Plan 2. Letter authorizing the use permit application from Arnold Lenk The proponent in this case, Marcia Myers, would like to open a cocktail lounge at the "Hopyard" shopping center now nearing com~ pletion. The lounge would consist of 2500 sq.•ft. of floor space in the extreme easternmost building on the site. Ms. Myers would like to permit seating for approximately 90 persons and operate during the hours between 10:00 A.M. and 2:00 A.M. The other known tenants at the center will consist of small shops, restaurants and offices. It can be anticipated that there will ultimately be several dozen such businesses at the center. A cocktail lounge, in the staff's judgment, appears as a compatible use at this location. To our knowledge, there have been no substantial law enforcement or other problems associated with cocktail lounges in similar locations within the City. Parking and circulation in this case, however, appear problematic. This proposed lounge would occupy only 4~ of the floor area of the "Hopyard" center. Four percent of 184 parking spaces at the center yields 7.36 spaces, a figure that can be reasonably conceived of as the lounges's "entitler~eni:" to a portion of available parking. The code required parking ratio of one space for three seats for this type of use would liriit the seating in the lounge to no more than 22. Because the shopping center was designed with minimal parking at a ratio that would generally accommodate "specialty shops" and other retail uses rather than cocktail lounges and restaurants the staff feels that the seating at the lounge would have to be kept substantially below the proposed 90 seats. Two restaurants pro- posed for the center have already compromised the available parking. If the operators of the center continue to lease space to restaurants