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The center's current pazking azea has stayed the same for many yeazs, but the tenants in the mam commercial building have changed. Many of these tenants require more customer pazknng to accommodate the high turnover rate their busmess generates. Notably, the fast food restaurants, drug store and mailbox sernce all have customers that make quick trips into and out of the pazking azea. The employees currently pazk in the same area thus reducing the number of available customer pazking. Chazacteristically, employees pazk for long hours and generally begin work before the stores aze opened. The stalls they occupy reduces the inventory of stalls available for customers. To accommodate the customer demand for pazkmg at the center, the owner is proposing additional pazking behind the commercial center on the subject property. All of the pazking in front of the commercial facility, thus, will be devoted to customer use and the new pazking behind of the center will be for employees In addition, the space that is freed-up in front of the building for customer use will provide extra space for future pazking needs. When existing tenants move out or permanently close their doors, the owner will likely look at potential tenants which generate higher volumes of business. Thus, it would be to the benefit of the owner to have more than enough pazking at the center Description of the Proposed Action's Technical Chazacten3stice The proposed project site will allow the nnstallatron of approximately 100 additional pazking stalls for the commercial center (See Figure 5). There would be - approxunately 69 regulaz stalls and 31 compact stalls following m;n;munn County allocation standazds. The stalls will be used by employees and may also serve as overflow pazknng for customers during special sale events. The pazking will have access from Kilauea Avenue and Kahaopea Street. It will "'i include landscaping on the perimeter and interior of the grounds, irrigation and lighting. Many of the existing trees on the site will be used in the new landscaping. The proposed planting treatment along the two street frontages will include a hedge or berm to create a visual buffer between the pazkmg azea and adjacent public rights-of- way. A landscape buffer will also be provided on the northern boundary between the parking lot and adjacent mixed-use property. The proposed lighting in the parking azea will provide the needed visibility for employees during the late hours that the center is open. The proposed pazking will have sufficient setback from Kilauea Avenue to accommodate the County's planned future widening of Kilauea Avenue. A timetable for the widening has not yet been determined II-6