BACKGROUND PARKING INFORMATION – OCEANA HOTEL
Excerpts from the 2006 Parking Study by Linscott, Law, and Greenspan • The study forecasted that with 70 guest rooms, the hotel would generate a peak parking demand of 49 parking spaces at 1:00 am when guests are typically in for the evening. This demand is below the 58 existing on-site parking spaces, in addition to 8 vehicles that could be stored in the parking drive aisles through the valet parking operation.
• With 70 rooms and 66 parking spaces (with valet), the parking ratio is 0.94 parking spaces per room; code requires one parking space per room. • The hotel provided data from its computer logs which confirmed that an average of 65% of the occupied rooms utilized the parking garage during the period of the parking study.
• The hotel also performed a guest arrival survey from August 23, 2006 - August 29, 2006 to determine:
1) the percentage of occupied rooms that used the parking garage and, 2) the percentage of guests arriving at the hotel who utilized the parking garage.
Over the 7-day survey period, when the hotel was operating at approximately 94% occupancy, an average of 68% of occupied rooms and arriving guests had vehicles parked in the garage.
• Approximately 1/3 of the guest arrivals each day are dropped off either by a taxi or private vehicle not parked at the hotel.
• Many guests are corporate travelers or families who rent multiple rooms, but share one vehicle.
Excerpts from the 2015 Parking Count by Linscott, Law, and Greenspan • The study surveyed parking spaces within the hotel’s garage from Thursday May 7 through Saturday May 9, 2015 between 6:00 AM and midnight each day. The peak hotel guest parking demand was 29 spaces and the hotel’s occupancy varied between 93% and 100%.
• Avante Agurs, Oceana’s Assistant Manager confirmed that even at 100% occupancy pre-pandemic, no more than 25 cars were parked in the garage at any one time (letter attached).
• Since 2015, ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft have increased in popularity and usage. The Oceana Hotel estimates that immediately prior to the pandemic, guest parking in the Hotel was slightly less than in 2015.