Commission presses developers for parking evidence after consultants estimate 1,200 daily trips

Traffic consultant Josh Gibbons told commissioners the study expects just over 100 trips in the AM peak hour and a similar PM peak, with a daily total around 1,200 development trips. "The daily was around the 1,200 you mentioned," he said while walking commissioners through peak hour charts.

Gibbons and the applicant framed a suite of TDM measures — vanpool and transit incentives, bike share coordination with Summit County Bikeshare, paid public parking and internal pedestrian connectivity — and applied a 10% reduction to account for multimodal effects and the city's draft TDM tool. That produced a recommended parking supply of 275 stalls, down from a raw 306. Several commissioners pushed back: the code calculation for the proposed uses came to 208 stalls, and commissioners asked why the study would exceed the code and for empirical justification of the 10% TDM assumption.

Commissioners also questioned event and peak‑overflow plans for an amphitheater concept and asked for a concrete off‑site parking and bus/permit plan (high school, Richardson Flats and other lots were discussed) to handle event loads. John Robertson, city engineer, said the Munchkin Road connection is in design and likely to be built in spring 2027; staff and the applicant will return with updated parking counts, ITE contact‑zone choices used for the analysis and evidence for the claimed modal shifts.