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(c) Maximum Above Requirement. If parking is provided in excess of 100 percent of the parking spaces required in the Off - Street Parking Requirements Table, buffer requirements will be increased by 25% in terms of width and tree and shrub plantings. (d) Alternative Parking Plans. An alternative parking standard may be approved by the Director of Development Services or his or her designee for specific developments or uses that are deemed to require a different amount of parking than the standards shown in the Off - Street Parking Requirements Table. The Director shall establish conditions necessary to assure the adequacy of future on -site parking when approving an alternate parking standard. Potential alternative parking plan approaches and specific regulations are described below. 1) Parkinz Studv Ontion. Parking studies may be required for specific uses that have characteristics that reduce the accuracy of standard requirements. Additionally, as an alternative, applicants for uses that appear on the requirements Table may choose to conduct a parking study to determine appropriate parking requirements. Many uses have widely varying parking demand characteristics, making it impossible to specify a single off - street parking standard. This option is intended to allow development to meet vehicle parking and transportation access needs by means other than providing_ parking spaces on -site in accordance with the ratios established above. (2) Parking Study. Anyone proposing to develop or expand a use based on this parking study option must submit a parking study that provides justification for the number of off — street parking spaces proposed. A parking study must include estimates of parking demand based on recommendations of the Institute of Traffic Engineers (ITE), or other acceptable estimates as approved by the Director, and should include other reliable data collected from uses or combinations of uses that are the same as or comparable with the proposed use. Comparability will be determined by density, scale, bulk, area, type of activity, and location. The stud document the source of data used to develop the recommendations. (3 ) Eligible Alternatives. A number of specific parking and access alternatives may be considered, including off -site, shared or valet parking. The Director shall be authorized to consider and approve any alternative to providing off - street parking spaces on the site of the subject development if the applicant demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Director that the proposed plan shall result in a better situation with respect to surrounding neighborhoods, city wide traffic circulation or urban design than would strict compliance with otherwise applicable off - street parking standards. (4) Review by Director. The Director shall review the parking study and any other traffic engineering and planning data relevant to the establishment of