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To: Kathy Janke
From: Don Measamer,DRG rim
Date: 2/8/2007
Re: Tracy's Furniture— 1920 Commercial Avenue Proposed Parking Variance
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The Development Review Group discussed the proposed parking variance for 1920 Commercial
Avenue(Tracy's Furniture)and finding a complete submittal recommend approval of the request
with the following condition.
1. The existing west parking lot shall be stripped to show existing parking stalls,van accessible
parking space and aisle as well as Commercial parking areas. •
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TO Property Owners within 300' — 1920 Commercial
FROM Kathy Janke, Land Use Permits
SUBJECT Parking Variance Request—Tracys Furniture
DATE January 30, 2007
Please find attached:
❑ January 17, 2007 proposal for parking variance
❑ Drawing
The Planning Commission will review this matter on Wednesday, February 14, 2007 al
7:30 p.m. in the Municipal Building Council Chambers, 6' Street and "Q' Avenue. You
may appear at the stated date, place, and time. Written comments are also welcome and
should be addressed to Don Measamer, Assistant Planning Director, City of Anacortes,
P.O. Box 547, Anacortes, WA 98221-360-293-1901 —doncityofanacortes.orq
Tracys Furniture
1920 Commercial Avenue
Anacortes, WA 98221
January 17, 2007
Anacortes Planning Commission
Subject: Parking Variance for proposed deck addition to 1920 Commercial
Avenue Building occupied by Tracys Furniture
Background: The current showroom is 14,000 square feet and has eighteen
parking spaces. A variance was granted for that number of parking spaces in
1990 during the permit process for an addition that brought the building to
its current size. We added an elevator two years ago and received a
variance for that project as well.
Proposal: We would like to build an outdoor deck on the roof of the 1990
addition that would be used seasonally to display our Outdoor Furniture.
The deck would be 3000 square feet and would have a small showroom of
300 square feet within the same space. This deck would allow us to show the
category without having to pull other furniture display to make room. This
space would be used primarily by customers shopping for Outdoor Furniture
during the months of May through August when the weather is good enough
to take people outside. The 300 square foot showroom would serve as the
showroom in cold and/or rainy weather and would be where we house the
samples and enough product to show when we wouldn't take people out on the
deck. We also envision the deck as a place to set up a tent twice a year
when we hold our semi annual clearance sales that take place in the months
of January and July.
Impact: We hope to grow all aspects of our business and we think that this
addition would give us a unique marketing position in the marketplace that
would not only help our Outdoor Furniture business, but the business in
general. Our current customer parking needs do not tax our parking lot and
the only time that we have overflow traffic is during the private sales that
we hold twice a year and we manage that by having our employees park a
block away from Commercial, where parking is plentiful. We have also
extended the duration of the two private sales that we have each year to
three days and no longer experience the surges of traffic that we generated
when the were a six hour event. Traffic in the store and parking has been
very manageable since we made those changes back in 1999. Because of the
high service nature of our type of business, we do all of our promotions over
a greater period of time than we did in the past and find that we don't
overwhelm our staff or parking with this approach. Our normal staffing for
the sales floor is two to three people during all hours that we are open and
we ramp that up to six to eight people at the opening day of our private sales
and find this number to be very adequate to handle our traffic flow. We
have no immediate plans for adding staff when this deck is operational but
would look to having three people more often than two during our busy
summer months. Our two busiest months of the year over the last three
years have been June and July where we average 23% of our annual volume,
where 17% would be the statistical average. It would be a big boost to our
efforts to be able to show more furniture while we have the highest
demand, instead of shortening our showing as we do annually to accommodate
our Outdoor Furniture display. With new furniture stores opening in the
Valley, we feel that it is imperative to improve our offering to stay
competitive in the marketplace. You either lead or get out of the way and
we want to continue to aggressively market our business in its Anacortes
location. We feel that this change would be positive for Tracys Furniture
and the Anacortes Business Community without any significant impact on the
parking surrounding our store.
Thank you for your time and consideration,
Bob Tracy
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TO Don Measamer (DRG), Ed Frank, Fred Buckenmeyer, Dan Harju, Mike King, Gary
Robinson, Rick Harvey
FROM Planning Department/Land Use Permits
RE Parking Variance—Tracys Furniture— 1920 Commercial
DATE January 30, 2007
Please find attached:
111 January 17, 2007 letter
0 Drawing
Please refer comments to the Development Review Group — thank you
Tracys Furniture
1920 Commercial Avenue
Anacortes, WA 98221
January 17, 2007
Anacortes Planning Commission
Subject: Parking Variance for proposed deck addition to 1920 Commercial
Avenue Building occupied by Tracys Furniture
Background: The current showroom is 14,000 square feet and has eighteen
parking spaces. A variance was granted for that number of parking spaces in
1990 during the permit process for art addition that brought the building to
its current size. We added an elevator two years ago and received a
variance for that project as well.
Proposal: We would like to build an outdoor deck on the roof of the 1990 `7
addition that would be used seasonally to display our Outdoor Furniture.
The deck would be 3000 square feet and would have a small showroom of
300 square feet within the same space. This deck would allow us to show the
category without having to pull other furniture display to make room. This
space would be used primarily by customers shopping for Outdoor Furniture
during the months of May through August when the weather is good enough
to take people outside. The 300 square foot showroom would serve as the
showroom in cold and/or rainy weather and would be where we house the
samples and enough product to show when we wouldn't take people out on the
deck. We also envision the deck as a place to set up a tent twice a year
when we hold our semi annual clearance sales that take place in the months
of January and July.
Impact: We hope to grow all aspects of our business and we think that this
addition would give us a unique marketing position in the marketplace that
would not only help our Outdoor Furniture business, but the business in
general. Our current customer parking needs do not tax our parking lot and
the only time that we have overflow traffic is during the private sales that
we hold twice a year and we manage that by having our employees park a
block away from Commercial, where parking is plentiful. We have also
extended the duration of the two private sales that we have each year to
three days and no longer experience the surges of traffic that we generated
when the were a six hour event. Traffic in the store and parking has been
very manageable since we made those changes back in 1999. Because of the
high service nature of our type of business, we do all of our promotions over
a greater period of time than we did in the past and find that we don't
overwhelm our staff or parking with this approach. Our normal staffing for
the sales floor is two to three people during all hours that we are open and
we ramp that up to six to eight people at the opening day of our private sales
and find this number to be very adequate to handle our traffic flow. We
have no immediate plans for adding staff when this deck is operational but
would look to having three people more often than two during our busy
summer months. Our two busiest months of the year over the last three
years have been June and July where we average 23% of our annual volume,
where 17% would be the statistical average. It would be a big boost to our
efforts to be able to show more furniture while we have the highest
demand, instead of shortening our showing as we do annually to accommodate
our Outdoor Furniture display. With new furniture stores opening in the
Valley, we feel that it is imperative to improve our offering to stay
competitive in the marketplace. You either lead or get out of the way and
we want to continue to aggressively market our business in its Anacortes
location. We feel that this change would be positive for Tracys Furniture
and the Anacortes Business Community without any significant impact on the
parking surrounding our store.
Thank you for your time and consideration,
Bob Tracy
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FROM Planning Department/Land Use Permits
RE Parking Variance—Tracys Furniture— 1920 Commercial
DATE January 30, 2007
Please find attached:
111 January 17, 2007 letter
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Please refer comments to the Development Review Group — thank you
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Tracys Furniture
1920 Commercial Avenue
Anacortes, WA 98221
January 17, 2007
Anacortes Planning Commission
Subject: Parking Variance for proposed deck addition to 1920 Commercial
Avenue Building occupied by Tracys Furniture
Background: The current showroom is 14,000 square feet and has eighteen
parking spaces. A variance was granted for that number of parking spaces in
1990 during the permit process for an addition that brought the building to
its current size. We added an elevator two years ago and received a
variance for that project as well.
Proposal: We would like to build an outdoor deck on the roof of the 1990
addition that would be used seasonally to display our Outdoor Furniture.
The deck would be 3000 square feet and would have a small showroom of
300 square feet within the same space. This deck would allow us to show the
category without having to pull other furniture display to make room. This
space would be used primarily by customers shopping for Outdoor Furniture
during the months of May through August when the weather is good enough
to take people outside. The 300 square foot showroom would serve as the
showroom in cold and/or rainy weather and would be where we house the
samples and enough product to show when we wouldn't take people out on the
deck. We also envision the deck as a place to set up a tent twice a year
when we hold our semi annual clearance sales that take place in the months
of January and July.
Impact: We hope to grow all aspects of our business and we think that this
addition would give us a unique marketing position in the marketplace that
would not only help our Outdoor Furniture business, but the business in
general. Our current customer parking needs do not tax our parking lot and
the only time that we have overflow traffic is during the private sales that
we hold twice a year and we manage that by having our employees park a
block away from Commercial, where parking is plentiful. We have also
extended the duration of the two private sales that we have each year to
three days and no longer experience the surges of traffic that we generated
when the were a six hour event. Traffic in the store and parking has been
very manageable since we made those changes back in 1999. Because of the
high service nature of our type of business, we do all of our promotions over
a greater period of time than we did in the past and find that we don't
overwhelm our staff or parking with this approach. Our normal staffing for
the sales floor is two to three people during all hours that we are open and
we ramp that up to six to eight people at the opening day of our private sales
and find this number to be very adequate to handle our traffic flow. We
have no immediate plans for adding staff when this deck is operational but
would look to having three people more often than two during our busy
summer months. Our two busiest months of the year over the last three
years have been June and July where we average 23% of our annual volume,
where 17% would be the statistical average. It would be a big boost to our
efforts to be able to show more furniture while we have the highest
demand, instead of shortening our showing as we do annually to accommodate
our Outdoor Furniture display. With new furniture stores opening in the
Valley, we feel that it is imperative to improve our offering to stay
competitive in the marketplace. You either lead or get out of the way and
we want to continue to aggressively market our business in its Anacortes
location. We feel that this change would be positive for Tracys Furniture
and the Anacortes Business Community without any significant impact on the
parking surrounding our store.
Thank you for your time and consideration,
Bob Tracy
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P.O. BOX 547, ANACORTES,WA 98221 I (360) 293-1901 - FAX (360) 293-1938
+ : 1891 4 IAN MUNCE, DIRECTOR
Cavitt EDWIN FRANK, BUILDING OFFICIAL
December 9, 1998
Bob Tracy
Tracy's
1920 Commercial Avenue
Anacortes,WA 98221
Dear Bob:
I appreciate your quick response to my letter dated December 1, 998.The point you make in your
letter of December 7, 1998 is acceptable as an appropriate method to maintain the required off-
street parking.
Again,thank you for your quick response to this matter.
Sincerely,
CITY OF ANACORTES
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Ed Frank
Building Official
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Steve Mansfield
TRACYS
1920 Commercial Ave.
Anacortes, WA 98221
December 7, 1998
Ed Frank
Building Official
P.O. Box 547
Anacortes, WA 98221
Dear Ed,
We received your letter dated December 1, 1998, asking us to re-establish our
18 off-street parking spaces now that we have fenced in a portion of our
backyard/parking area. I do not understand what technical violation or problem you
think exists, but I will attempt to explain what we are doing and hopefully this will
address you fears that some violation exists.
We have not changed or re-configured our parking lot or its usage since the addition of
the fence. Our only purpose in the addition of a gated fence was security. Prior to its
existence we had experienced break-ins, numerous vandalism's, and many inconsiderate,
destructive skate boarders. We have, thus far, reduced our problems 100%since adding
security.
We have never had, now or before, off street parking problems. Other than two sales a
year, off street parking is always available. When we had our private sale this year on
November 1, we utilized all our off street parking spaces on both sides of the fence.
Practically speaking, we do not have an off street parking problem now or in the
foreseeable future. We have not changed of our parking area since the installation of a
fence nor have we reduced the area available for parking. We are, however, immediately
instituting the following changes to offer better service to our customers and to hopefully
maintain the excellent working relationship we have enjoyed with our city officials.
Change #1. We will park all employee vehicles behind fenced area and leave the nun e
convenient spaces open at all times for customers and`the various package delivery
services that call on our store.
Change #2. 'The large rolling gate to our fenced parking area will be left.unlocked and
open for easy access during all business hours.
Thank you for your concern and for helping us create a more user friendly environment
for our customers.
Sincerely,
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Bob Tracy
cc Ian Munce
Steve Mansfield
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ANACOATES PLANNING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPT.
PERMIT CENTER
P.O. BOX 547, ANACORTES, WA 98221 I (360) 293-1901 -FAX (360) 293-1938
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CO�� EDWIN FRANK, BUILDING OFFICIAL
December 1, 1998
Bob Tracy
Tracy's
1920 Commercial Avenue
Anacortes,WA 98221
Dear Bob:
We have noticed that a large portion of the west yard behind Tracy's has been fenced. Review of
our file shows that the most recent addition to the store required 18 off-street parking spaces be
provided. Those spaces where located in that area fenced off.
Please note that city ordinance requires that off-street parking spaces, once installed,must be
maintained. Based on the ordinance I must direct that Tracy's re-established the 18 off-street
parking spaces as soon as possible. We expect that the re-establishment of these parking spaces
will take place within the next month or two.
If you have any questions concerning this letter,please contact us at 293-1901.
Sincerely,
CITY OF ACORTES
Ed k
Building Official
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Steve Mansfield
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June 18, 1990
Ian Munce
City of Anacortes Planning Department
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Anacortes, Wa. 98221 �
Dear Ian:
As per our telephone conversation of last week , we agree
to asphalt our back parking lot within one year of receiving /
permission to occupy the new addition to 1920 Commercial .
Th@nk you for your cooperation. We appreciate it !
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FROM Planning Department/Land Use Permits
RE Parking Variance—Tracys Furniture — 1920 Commercial
DATE January 30, 2007
Please find attached:
0 January 17, 2007 letter
111 Drawing
Please refer comments to the Development Review Group — thank you
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