2715 West 12 Avenue Parking Supply & Demand Review Draft

June 12, 2017

6210.01

Derick Flucker

Principal

Form Retail

Suite 1280 – 333 Seymour Street

Vancouver, BC

V6B 5A6

VIA EMAIL: [email protected]

Dear Mr. Flucker:

Re: 2715 West 12th Avenue Parking Supply & Demand Review

Draft Report

As requested, Bunt & Associates Ltd. (Bunt) has carried out a Parking Supply & Demand Study for the

proposed redevelopment of 2715 West 12th Avenue in Kitsilano, Vancouver. The attached draft report

provides a summary of our findings.

We trust that the information provided in this report will be of assistance to you. Please let us know if you

have any questions or comments.

Yours truly,

Bunt & Associates

Bethany Dobson, MScP, EIT Matt Taylor, P.Eng

Transportation Analyst Transportation Engineer

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1. INTRODUCTION

Bunt & Associates (Bunt) was retained by JTA Development Consultants (JTA) to assess the available off-

street parking supply and expected parking demand of the proposed redevelopment at 2715 West 12th

Avenue, Vancouver, whose location is shown in Exhibit 1. JTA is proposing to redevelop the site from its

existing Church use to a 15-unit townhouse development. Parking and supply requirements are outlined in

the redevelopment process, which triggered the need to re-examine the parking supply.

Bunt conducted a parking demand survey of the area, reviewed City of Vancouver bylaw parking and

loading requirements, and explored local context factors to determine an appropriate parking supply for

the site with the proposed land use alteration. The findings are summarized below.

2. EXISTING CONDITIONS

2.1 Existing Land Use

Located on the north side of West 12th

Avenue, 2715 is currently a church with no parking supply of its

own. It is surrounded by single-family residential neighbourhoods with street parking available on West

12th

Avenue and the nearby local roads including West 11th

Avenue and Stephens Street.

2.2 Neighbourhood Transportation Context

The site is well situated near the commercial corridors of West Broadway and West 16th

Avenue. Kitsilano

has a high transit/walk/bike mode share split of 53% according to the City of Vancouver 2015

Transportation Panel Survey.

2.2.1 Walking

As shown on Exhibit 1, the area has a fine grained street and lane network with good permeability for

pedestrians. Given the location of the site, there is also a wide range of commercial, retail, and

recreational amenities within walking distance. Sidewalks are located on all streets within the study area.

According to the WalkScore1

website, the site is rated as a “Walker’s Paradise” (score 95), meaning that

daily errands do not require a personal vehicle.

2.2.2 Transit

This site benefits from high transit accessibility. It is within 3 blocks (10 minutes) of the Macdonald Street

& West Broadway intersection, which is a crossing point for bus routes north-south and east-west. These

include bus routes 02, 09, 14, 33, N17, N22, and the 99 B-Line, each of which having 3-20 minute peak

hour headways resulting in excellent transit connections to the SkyTrain and downtown core.

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2.2.3 Cycling

The site is well positioned to take advantage of existing cycling facilities, as shown in previously in Exhibit

1. For routes extending north-south, Trafalgar Street is approximately 140 m to the east and Balaclava

Street is about 540 m to the west. East-west routes include 7th

/8th

Avenue 450 m north and West 10th

Avenue 160 m north of the site, beginning east of Trafalgar Street.

2.3 Existing Parking Conditions

2.3.1 Existing Site Off-Street Parking Requirements

The City of Vancouver parking bylaw requirements for the existing church are presented below in Table

2.2. The church has one assembly area with a floor area of approximately 107.7 m2

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Table 2.1: Existing Parking Requirements

USE BYLAW RATE SIZE BYLAW REQUIREMENT

Church

A minimum of one space for each 9.3 m2

of floor area used for

assembly purposes, except that where two or more separate areas of

assembly exist within a site are not used concurrently, the Director of

Planning may require parking for only the largest of these areas.

107.7 m2

12

TOTAL

According to Vancouver’s parking bylaws, the church requires 12 parking spaces although the existing

site provides no on-site parking.

Bunt contacted the church’s pastor to understand the current parking demand and his experience with the

parking supply in the area. The Sunday service runs from 12:00 – 2:00 PM and has an average attendance

rate of approximately 60 people. Anecdotally, he said that the people he spoke to who drive do not have

issues finding parking in the area. He believes about half the attendees drive, which is similar to the

findings of a previous Bunt travel survey2

for Oakridge Lutheran Church that found that 47% of attendees

drive to church service. As a result, the existing church’s parking demand is estimated to be

approximately 30 vehicles, which are currently accommodated by the surrounding street parking.

2.3.2 Existing On- Street Parking Supply & Demand

Bunt conducted two on-street parking demand surveys on Thursday April 27th

and Sunday April 30th

, 2017

as well as a spot check on the morning of Thursday June 1st

, 2017 to observe available street parking in

the area within a 140 m walk of the site, on West 11th

Avenue, West 12th

Street, Stephen Street, Trafalgar

Street, and Kitsilano Diversion. This area is illustrated in Exhibit 2.

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Surveyed On-Street Parking

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Most of the parking in the surrounding neighbourhood has no restrictions except for time restrictions on

Macdonald Street and the area surrounding Kitsilano Secondary School. Table 2.2 summarizes the

approximate number of parking spaces in the surrounding street network (resident only parking spaces

are not included).

Table 2.2: Available On-Street Parking

STREET NO. OF PARKING SPACES

West 12th

Ave 51

Stephen Street 30

Kitsilano Diversion 44

TOTAL 111

As shown in Table 2.2, there are nearly 111 on-street parking spaces available within 130 m of the site.

The number of unoccupied on-street parking spaces, by location, are illustrated in Figures 2.2 and 2.3 for

the weekday and Sunday observation periods.

Figure 2.1: Number of Unoccupied Street Parking Spots on a Weekday

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Figure 2.2: Number of Unoccupied Street Parking Spots on a Sunday

As shown in the previous two figures, the streets in the study area had between 8-28 available parking

spots during the weekday afternoon and Sunday morning periods.

To illustrate demand versus supply, total demand profiles for a weekday and Sunday are shown in Figures

2.4 and 2.5.

According to Bunt’s surveys, weekday on-street parking demand peaked between 5:00-5:30 PM, at which

time there were approximately 50 available spaces remaining. In contrast, the Sunday on-street parking

demand peaked between 10:00-11:00 AM with approximately 40 available spaces. None of the study

streets were 100% occupied during the observed times.

Weekday morning observations yielded a similar result. At 7:30 AM, all of the study streets had additional

parking capacity with occupancy rates of approximately 10-60%.

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3. FUTURE CONDITIONS

3.1 Proposed Development

As described previously, the existing church land use has a bylaw requirement of 12 parking spaces, but

functions presently without any parking spaces. The alteration from the existing land use to the proposed

future residential land use will result in a different bylaw requirement of parking spaces, which are

calculated in Table 4.1.

Table 3.1: Future Parking Requirements

USE DENSITY PARKING

REQUIREMENT TYPE

BYLAW MINIMUM

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BYLAW SUPPLY

REQUIREMENT PROVIDED

Secured

Market

Rental

Housing

15 Units

Resident Parking 1 space for each 125

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of GFA

10 parking spaces

(with shared vehicle

substitution allowed)

2 shared vehicle

parking spaces

Visitor Parking 7.5% of total number

of dwelling units 1 parking space

1 accessible parking

space

Bicycle Parking 1.25 spaces for every

dwelling unit

19 Class A bicycle

spaces

19 Class A bicycle

spaces

The Bylaw requires 10 parking spaces, but Section 3.2.2 allows for shared vehicles for secured market

rental housing to be substituted at a 1:5 ratio to a maximum of 4 shared parking spaces for every 100

dwelling units:

The Director of Planning and General Manager of Engineering Services, on conditions that

are satisfactory to them, may allow the substitution of shared vehicles and shared vehicle

parking spaces for required parking spaces:

c) for secured market rental housing not Downtown, at a 1:5 ratio, to a maximum

of 4 shared vehicles and 4 shared parking spaces for each 100 dwelling units

JTA proposes to supply 2 shared vehicle parking spaces plus 1 accessible parking space for visitors, which

exceeds the bylaw requirement.

Bunt’s parking demand survey indicated that there is ample street parking available in the area. During the

survey times, there were always at least 40 available spaces in the study area, which is significantly more

than the anticipated demand of the proposed residential development. Moreover, some of the Sunday

demand is associated with the church, which will end with the redevelopment.

3.1.1 Car Share

Car-sharing services have developed significantly in the last 10-15 years (and increasingly in the past 2-3

years in Vancouver). These services allow people to have short term access to a shared vehicle located on

or close to their site, without having to buy or maintain their own vehicle. Members usually pay a small

monthly administration fee to cover some of the fixed costs of the car and then a “pay as you go”

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approach is adopted as members pay by the hour and mile when they use a vehicle. Each shared car has

been shown to remove between 3 – 11 private vehicles from the street system, and number of vehicles

owned per household was shown to drop when a car sharing membership was acquired3

.

The recent Metro Vancouver Car Share Study provides some information about the reduction of auto

ownership based on car share usage. Table 4.2 below shows the vehicle holdings per household prior and

after residents joined a car share program.

Table 4.2: Vehicle Holdings Prior to and After Joining Car Share

MEMBERSHIP

VEHICLES PER HOUSEHOLD

PERCENT CHANGE PRIOR TO JOINING CAR

SHARE

AFTER JOINING CAR

SHARE

Modo Only 0.70 0.51 -27%

Car2go Only 1.06 1.01 -5%

Modo + Car2go 0.59 0.38 -36%

Source: Metro Vancouver Car Share Study

Market rentals housing typically generates a parking demand of 0.5 – 0.75 stalls/unit. According to the

Car Share study the number of vehicles per household decreased between 5 and 36% when the residents

joined a car share program.4

This would decrease the expected parking demand to approximately 0.33 –

0.72 stalls/unit or 5 – 11 vehicles. This is substantially lower than the on-street parking demand generated

by the existing Church, which was found to be approximately 30 vehicles. The Car Share study also shows

that the top home-based amenity that survey respondents indicated would have them shift modes is the

availability of car share vehicles. This study reinforces the premise that supplying car share vehicles for

the development will work to reduce the parking demand on the site.

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planning/PlanningPublications/MetroVancouverCarShareStudyTechnicalReport.pdf

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planning/PlanningPublications/MetroVancouverCarShareStudyTechnicalReport.pdf

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4. CONCLUSIONS

The proposed development is located in a neighbourhood with good permeability and pedestrian

infrastructure. It also has various transit connections and nearby cycling routes. The high

walk/cycle/transit mode split of the neighbourhood is reflective of these conditions.

The City of Vancouver Bylaw requires 10 parking spaces for the proposed development with the option to

substitute 2 shared vehicle parking stalls at a 1:5 ratio, resulting in a requirement of 2 shared vehicle

spaces. The developer proposes to supply 2 shared vehicle parking stalls as well as 1 visitor accessible

stall.

The proposed development is located in an area with the high level of walkability, bikability, and access to

major lines. The parking demand generated by this development is expected to be minimal at 5 – 11

vehicles. This is less than the 30 vehicles estimated to be currently generated by the existing church.

Moreover, the Sunday parking demand previously generated by the church will become available to future

residents. Access to car share vehicles will further reduce the parking demand generated by this site,

while the high level of parking availability on the nearby streets will easily accommodate any of the

remaining parking demand.

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