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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Parsons Transportation Group Inc. (Parsons) was retained by The Home Depot to perform a parking study for two of its Contractors' Warehouse stores in the Los Angeles area. Specifically, this study provides a detailed analysis of daily parking activity at two Contractors' Warehouse stores in the Los Angeles area during the fall of 2005. These analyses result in parking demand relationships that can be used by Home Depot to estimate the parking requirements of future Contractors' Warehouse stores, both inside and outside of Southern California. Conclusions & Recommendations • None of the Contractors' Warehouse store parking lots filled to capacity on any of the study days. • The average peak occupancy among the study stores was 69% of the parking spaces available for use. The lowest peak occupancy was 61 % and the highest was 78%. • At the Pomona store, a certain number of parking spaces were taken out of service by the placement of stacks of building materials and the storage of rental equipment and forklifts. • The 5`h busiest day was chosen for the design day in this analysis. This means that each store would have adequate parking spaces for the parking demand experienced every hour of every day of the year except for during the peak hours of demand on the 4 busiest days of the year. • The two study stores exhibited similar patterns of parking lot use, and experienced similar peak hours of customer and parking activity. However, each store experienced different transaction-based characteristics. This is likely due to the fact that the Montebello store is located in an industrial area and the Pomona store is located in a retail shopping center. (The Pomona store had a higher relative parking demand because it had more visiting customers who did not make a purchase.) • Based on this study, it appears that Contractors' Warehouse stores located in retail shopping centers attract more browsing customers and therefore need more parking than stores located in industrial areas. • The resultant design-day square footage rates varied between the study stores, ranging from 598 square feet per required parking space at the Pomona store to 957 square feet per required parking space at the Montebello store. • [n terms ofbuilding space, the average square footage rate between the study stores was 777 square feet per required parking space. The use of this average to calculate future parking demand is not recommended. III A-6 31 A-24