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Director Keating advised that Public Works Director Jim Davis <br />is checking the ITE trip generation manual. Chapter 952 of the <br />LDRs lists trip rates by the number of uses based on some studies <br />done in Florida. We do not specifically call out department stores <br />but we have commercial of various sizes. Generally, as a <br />commercial establishment size increases, the trip generation rate <br />per 1,000 square feet decreases. The trip rate per 1,000 square <br />feet is substantially higher for the much smaller convenience store <br />use. <br />Commissioner Eggert understood that Director Keating was <br />referring to convenience store versus supermarket or grocery store, <br />and Director Keating stated that was correct. There is no grocery <br />store delineation in Chapter 952, and he didn't think there is any <br />in the ITE trip rate. <br />Commissioner Adams noted that Attorney Warren Dill offered <br />that there is no square footage definition for the terms <br />supermarket or grocery store, and she inquired if Professor <br />Cotterill was aware of one. <br />Professor Cotterill, analyst from Connecticut, stated that <br />anything below 10,000 square feet would be a grocery store. <br />Attorney Evans pointed out that under the County's Code <br />anything below 28,000 square feet is a grocery store, and <br />Commissioner Adams noted there are houses in the Moorings with more <br />square footage than that. <br />Tom Vincent, Vice President of Halvorsen, returned to the dais <br />and pointed out that there is no documented, substantial evidence <br />to suggest or imply that there is a factual square footage <br />threshold between the two, which is obviously the cause of this <br />debate. He felt it is important to understand that when the ITE <br />manual refers to a supermarket line item, it typically is used for <br />a free-standing site. All the other categories that Director <br />Keating referenced for commercial square footage thresholds of <br />100,000 to 200,000, or 200,000 to 400,000, etc., are established on <br />the concept that most commercial food store/shopping center <br />situations are multiple use centers where people can shop at <br />several retail locations within the center rather than going to <br />several isolated commercial uses. In other words, you eliminate or <br />mitigate multiple trips with a single, free-standing store. <br />40 <br />BON UZ 'a",1814 <br />July 12, 1994 <br />J <br />