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Memo to Planning Commission Page 2 February 28, 1995 • • Retrofitting the existing ice arena to meet AD requirements • Redesigning the entrance to both arenas including a common lobby area for ticketing, concessions and restroom facilities. • Construct a 235 by 151 precast building for the new Olympic ice sheet. • Provide initial seating for approximately 900 spectators with the ability to expand that seating to accommodate roughly 2,500 people. • Provide new locker room space in both arenas along with a common mezzanine level between the two ice sheets. • Install new parking area to accommodate upwards of 90 vehicles. • Provide on-site lighting within the parking area and around the ice arena. • Install landscaping around the building and site perimeter. • Repair a portion of the existing parking lot in front of the current ice arena to help facilitate drainage. Analysis The following are issues that have been discussed relative to the proposed ice arena: Parking - The existing ice arena can currently seat approximately 700 people. The new ice arena will ultimately be able to seat roughly 2,500. In total, these two facilities operating at full capacity could • draw 3,200 spectators. Certainly this may be a rare occurrence where both facilities are operating at optimum capacity, however, it is a situation that could occur in the future. In terms of designing the parking needs for a facility that is located within a campus setting that has a variable amount of parking opportunities available, the parking issue becomes slightly less critical than an isolated parcel with limited parking ability. Similar to a shopping center, parking lots are not designed for the worse case (i.e. Christmas Eve). Therefore, it is not anticipated that a parking area will be provided to accommodate the optimum capacity. With the ice arenas being located on the high school campus where other events such as basketball, volleyball and swimming may be occurring at the same time as an event at the ice arena, there may be more pressures on the demand for parking space. However, according to the high school, scheduling events at alternative times has been rather successful and therefore, parking problems have been minimized. One of the key elements in managing these peak parking demands will be the scheduling of events at alternate times to spread those demands out and not having them occur at the same time. • s:planning:pc:cu95-03