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SA Page 30 Hotels justify their own category for a few reasons. First of all, they truly act differently than commercial and residential uses. Although sometimes difficult, it is possible to estimate the parking demand per square foot of floor area for 'all other commercial uses, including uses such as restaurants and theaters which often use seat counts to calculate parking demand. No so with hotels. There is really no reliable way to estimate parking other than using the number of guest rooms. Also, it is unlikely that a hotel building would regularly switch to an office building or retail configuration. This means that having a separate parking requirement would not impede natural changes in tenancies. Based on suburban conditions, ITE states that the average peak parking generation rate for hotels is 0.89 spaces per guest room, in addition to any parking required for conference facilities, restaurants, etc. Several factors must be kept in mind. First, hotels have dramatically different peaks than many other uses (particularly office and retail), so they offer excellent opportunities for shared parking. The peak use of hotel parking is overnight, when most other uses are idle. Meanwhile, while other uses are active during the day, hotel patrons are out and about and their parking is 60% to 70% unoccupied. These shared parking opportunities can be maximized either by providing such parking in City-operated garages or by keeping private lots open for general public use. In addition, Redwood City's transit connections, primarily Caltrain, also serve as a factor which allows us to require less parking for Downtown hotels than we might for hotels in other areas. Caltrain connects directly to SFO, and a portion of hotel guests will arrive in Downtown Redwood City via this connection-without a car. Shared parking principles and this transit connection justify setting the requirement below the current city-wide standard of 1 spacer per guest room and below the ITE rate (based on suburban conditions with no transit, density, or mixed use) of 0.89 spaces per guest room. Here is how some other surveyed materials\deal with hotel parking: Sample Minimum Parking Requirements for Hotels Stalls per uest room 1.0 1.2 0.89 0.5 0.9 1.0 It is recommended that we adopt 0.5 spaces per guest room as Downtown's minimum parking requirement for hotels. Any restaurants, convention halls, or other commercial space in a proposed hotel should be separated out and its parking requirement calculated independently based on commercial requirements. This rate of 0.5 spaces per guest room should only be permitted, however, for hotel developments that contribute to shared parking efficiencies. This can be accomplished either by "PtJie 2~ "_._-- . ..- .- ----.---.- .'. ,-._.._p _._..._.__........_u ..._.._.._..._ - --..--.--.... --..