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Attachment #4--Young Ivy Academy Overview During the Planning Commission hearing, on November 12, 2014, Young Ivy Academy proposed to build a new outdoor playground area to replace eight existing parking spaces at the rear of the shopping center to be used between 2 PM and 6 PM on Monday through Friday for students in kindergarten through sixth grade. No more than 16 students would occupy the playground area at any given time. Staff's recommendation to the Planning Commissioners regarding Young Ivy Academy is exactly the position that the Millers expected staff to take regarding the Masons. The Millers are confused as to why staff can clearly see the issues with the ambient noise impact to neighbors with respect to Young Ivy Academy, but not with respect to the Masons. The Millers are requesting the same considerations that staff provided to the neighbors of the Young Ivy Academy to also be provided to us. Background In 2014, staff made the recommendation to not allow Young Ivy to build the outdoor playground by stating in their report, "[the outdoor playground] would be a new ancillary used to the primary use, and is proposed outside of the building close to existing residential uses, with only the existing shopping center soundwall along the eastern property line to provide any type of sound attenuation for those residences to the east. No sound attenuation would be provided for the residences to south on the opposite side of Junipero Street. The introduction of the outdoor playground area, with up to 16 children at any given time. and no significant sound attenuation, could result in increased ambient noise levels during the hours of 2 PM to 6 PM. Consequently the staff is recommending denial of this portion of the proposal." "With the elimination of the proposed outdoor playground area, noise levels related to the Heritage school would be minimal and staff believes that it is unlikely that the noise generated during facility use would impact the nearby residences or surrounding shopping center tenants. Recommended conditions of approval required that the exterior doors remained closed when not being used for ingress /egress purposes and that the applicant inform all students /parents not to loiter or make loud noises outside the building before or after instruction. Staff has also included a standard condition of approval on the project that allows the City to review the project again to add mitigating conditions should any future complaints regarding noise levels occur. Such conditions could include modifying the hours of operation or reducing the number of students." Please note in the above that staff was concerned about ambient noise to the neighbors. Let's review some of the major points in the above two paragraphs: • Staff was concerned about noise impacting neighbors on the east side, who are 60 feet away with an 8 foot solid brick sound wall in between to buffer the noise. • Staff was even concerned about noise impacting neighbors on the south side, who are 80 feet away with a street in between to buffer the noise. 28