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Home My WebLink About03/21/2023 - Parking Assessment - - 149 MAIN STREET TEPP LLC TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING, PLANNING AND POLICY MEMORANDUM 93 Stiles Road, Suite 201, Salem, New Hampshire 03079 USA 800 Turnpike Street, Suite 300, North Andover, Massachusetts 01845 USA Phone (603) 212-9133 and Fax (603) 226-4108 Email tepp@teppllc.com and Web www.teppllc.com Ref: 1640 Subs ect. Initial Comments on Parking 149 Main Street im North Andover, Massachusetts CIVIL 32570 From: Kim Eric Hazarvartian, Ph.D., P.E., PTOE Principal Date: March 21, 2023 INTRODUCTION Saint Gregory Armenian Apostolic Church of Merrimack Valley (Saint Gregory) has retained TEPP LLC to prepare initial comments on parking relative to the proposed redevelopment at 149 Main Street in the Town of North Andover, Massachusetts (the project). Saint Gregory is locat- ed at 158 Main Street. These initial comments consider Langan Engineering and Environmental, Inc. (Langan), updated traffic assessment and parking utilization study, revised February 23, 2023. PARKING GENERATION Langan page 5 showed calculated parking demand based on Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE).1 Langan page 5 showed expected average parking demand of 39 vehicles on a weekday and 51 vehicles on Saturday. Table 1 below shows additional parking-demand calculations based on ITE.2 These numbers tend to be greater than the Langan numbers. When a parking facility is within 15 percent of physical capacity, it is considered full for practi- cal purposes. Therefore, practical capacity may be defined as 85 percent of physical capacity. Practical capacity' accounts for searches for available spaces and parking and un-parking ma- neuvers. Calculated parking demand on Langan page 5 and in Table 1 does not provide for this practical capacity. PARKING OBSERVATIONS Saint Gregory personnel observed parking: 1 ITE,Parking Generation Manual, 5th Edition(Washington DC,January 2019). 2 ITE,pages 69 to 70 and 553 to 555. 'C. Jotin Khisty, Transportation Engineering: An Introduction(New Jersey: Prentice-Hall,Inc., 1990),page 523. 1640 20230321 M Initial Comments.doc 1 1 • on Sunday, March 12, 2023 • on Friday, March 17, 2023 • on Sunday, March 19, 2023 • on the Saint Gregory site • on Main Street near the Saint Gregory site • on Water Street near the Saint Gregory site • on the project site at 149 Main Street • on the former Bank of America site at 154 Main Street • on the Saint Michael Parish site at 196 Main Street Saint Gregory reported that: • all Main Street parking near the Saint Gregory site did fill • all parking on the Saint Gregory site did fill • up to 16 vehicles did park on the project site • up to 3 vehicles did park on the former Bank of America site • up to 12 Saint Gregory-related vehicles did park on the Saint Michael Parish site COMMENTS TEPP LLC comments that: 1. the applicant should consider the additional parking-demand calculations in Table 1 2. the applicant should more specifically consider Sunday parking conditions and demand 3. vehicles that currently park on the project site could be added to on-street parking demand 4. vehicles that currently park on the former Bank of America site could be added to on- street parking demand in the future 5. parking on the Saint Michael Parish site is subject to availability and vehicles may be required to park on the street at times 6. vehicles that park on the Saint Michael Parish site may not be able to so do in perpetuity and could be added to on-street parking demand in the future 7. even if some on-street parking spaces in the general area may remain unoccupied, the applicant should assess whether an adequate supply of on-street parking will remain within 200 feet of the Saint Gregory site 1640 20230321 M Initial Comments.doc 2 rr Average Peak Parking Demanda 85"Percentile Peak Parking Demanda Land Usea Weekday Monday through Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Weekdaya Monday through Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday A. Residential,Land Use 220,24 Dwelling Unitsb 29 --- --- 31 40 37 --- --- 39 40 B. Residential,Land Use 220,40 Bedroomsb 28 --- --- 32 --- 35 --- --- 36 --- C. Commercial,Land Use 820,6,500-SF Floor Area,Non-Decembers --- 13 6 57 12 --- 24 25 25 15 D. Commercial,Land Use 820,6,500-SF Floor Area,Decembers --- 25 27 30 28 --- 33 34 39 38 A+C --- 42 35 88 52 --- 61 62 64 55 A+D --- 54 56 61 68 --- 70 71 78 78 B+C --- 41 34 89 --- --- 59 60 61 --- B+D --- 53 55 62 --- --- 68 69 75 --- Average of A+C,A+D,B+C,and B+D --- 48 45 75 60 --- 65 66 70 67 Langan 39 --- --- 51 --- --- --- --- --- a Rounded up to whole number. b ITE. Land use 220 is multifamily housing(low-rise). c ITE. Land use 820 is shopping center. SF is square feet. 1640 20230321 M Initial Comments.doc 3 1 1 • calculation of shared parking demand should consider if increased work at home increas- es residential parking demand during work hours • the applicant should consider whether reserved parking, assigned parking, tandem park- ing, accessible/handicapped parking, or electric vehicle parking, or other factors on the project site could lead to some parking spaces being unavailable at times • the applicant should consider whether particular commercial uses could lead to larger parking demand than calculated 1640 20230321 M Initial Comments.doc 5