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Parking Study for Oath
Jan. 20th, 2016 09:24 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
jlauspitz.livejournal.comHere is the link to the parking study commissioned by the Oath applicants for a Special Permit at the hearing today:
http://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Parking%20Study%202015-12-18.pdf
On the basis of a survey of 385 patrons of Chipotle during a three-day period in October 2015 the consultants report that 29.6% of the customers arrived by car or carpool. They conclude that the current parking in Davis Square is adequate to absorb the burden of the proposed 16-seat 90-second pizza restaurant adjoining Chipotle.
In this report, as elsewhere in the documentation, there is no estimate of the balance between take-out and sit-down business in the Oath business model, and therefore no attention to the obvious problem of idling or circling cars at a choke-point in Davis Square. It is assumed (implausibly) that all car-borne patrons will park and sit down for a meal.
For the dossier to be complete under the change-of-use regulations for fast food establishments, the issue of pizza pick-up and its effect on traffic flow, visibility, car-pedestrian interaction should be addressed.
There would appear to be two scenarios: the current traffic set up with a slip lane from Highland to Elm, and the proposed scenario in which the slip lane is transformed into a pedestrian plaza.
http://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Parking%20Study%202015-12-18.pdf
On the basis of a survey of 385 patrons of Chipotle during a three-day period in October 2015 the consultants report that 29.6% of the customers arrived by car or carpool. They conclude that the current parking in Davis Square is adequate to absorb the burden of the proposed 16-seat 90-second pizza restaurant adjoining Chipotle.
In this report, as elsewhere in the documentation, there is no estimate of the balance between take-out and sit-down business in the Oath business model, and therefore no attention to the obvious problem of idling or circling cars at a choke-point in Davis Square. It is assumed (implausibly) that all car-borne patrons will park and sit down for a meal.
For the dossier to be complete under the change-of-use regulations for fast food establishments, the issue of pizza pick-up and its effect on traffic flow, visibility, car-pedestrian interaction should be addressed.
There would appear to be two scenarios: the current traffic set up with a slip lane from Highland to Elm, and the proposed scenario in which the slip lane is transformed into a pedestrian plaza.
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