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Saturday, December 21, 2013

Garden City Parking Suggestions


Anita Weston, Reporter
Rich Civic Times

GARDEN CITY, Utah.  December 12, 2013. Darrin Pugmire handed out a suggestion of how to determine the number of parking spaces that could be required of different business categories.  He had three groups as an example.  Fast food services as one, fine dining was the second, and other businesses was the third.  He determined that most people come as a family or group.  If the business was fine dining, the number of seats in the restaurant could be used divided by perhaps 2.5.  That would provide an estimate of the number of parking spaces the restaurant would need to build.

Fast food businesses need all the spaces that can possibly be provided.  Because that business is so difficult to determine, perhaps the owner could rent or least parking from the City.  Any business that needed more parking than they could provide onsite, could lease spaces from the City at the closest parking lot to their location.  This would allow the City to make sure all businesses were treated equally.  Businesses would either provide their own parking or lease the needed spaces.

Darrin asked that the Council Members consider the ideas he presented, and this item could be placed on the agenda at a future time.  He, however, feels that something concrete needs to be done concerning parking within the City.

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