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Regular Council Meeting 4-17-00 Page 13 Dr. Parker said one issue is whether we change the zoning. Mayor Rinker said you are not changing the zoning; it is a Special Use Permit. Dr. Parker said he takes that back, that was just the way he had stated it. Asstuning you would approve that, tlie second issue you would deal with would be parking. The third issue would be to give them additional setback so they could add parking. He asked how many parking spaces are available on a typical day when employees are there and there is typical traffic in and out of there. Mr. Rapaszky said there are 180 spaces available now. The problem is the vast majority do not play to the front of 731. There is a large number of spaces at any given time and he encourages people to drive through the properiy on any day of the week. He explained the problem which is that they have a rehabilitation facility--it is a convenience and allows people who are already on walkers, etc. a close proximity to 731 where they are not going to have to walk-even though 3 buildings are on one parcel, and one can count all the parking, it is the idea that these people are already incapacitated in one way or another and we want to provide a convenience to the front of 731 so they can walk 60' instead of several hundred feet to the doctors in the rehab area. Dr. Parker said he wants to get a grasp of how many parking spaces there are now and for this can be done without changing the setback and it is just a matter of inconvenience those people to walk up. If you told me that out of those 180 spaces you use 160 spaces (filled) throughout the day, then we have a problem. Mr. Rapaszky said we have 4 other tenants who have a right to parldng in front of that building. To bring in a medical group and not provide additional parking for medical groups, clients and patients would infringe upon the other tenants who are there. if Dr. Parker asked if it would be merely a convenience that now they would have to park in the back of the building and walk to the building or that they wouldn't have parking. Mr. Rapaszky said it would be a substantial inconvenience to them and not one I could care to face on a daily basis. We made a business decision that without the additional parking it is not practical or feasible to move forward and develop this into the rehab development we are talking about. Ms. Singer said the staff inembers park in the back and some are double-parked and park in loading dock spaces since they don't need semi truck access. Our parking spaces are full on Monday, Wednesday and Friday (about 4 spaces not being used); Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday they are not. We had some parking issues when Progressive was there. The