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AGENDA REPORT
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9/20/2016
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March 12, 2009 <br />Dear Mr. Dolan, <br />The purpose of this letter is to share with you a very troublesome situation that has developed with <br />the Masonic Lodge on Hopyard Road in Pleasanton. <br />Until a few years ago, there was no problem with the Masonic Lodge. There was no noticeable <br />noise from the building, and their activities did not cause a nuisance. A few years ago, however, the <br />Lodge built glass doors on the north side of the building, built a patio on the north side, landscaped <br />the north side, and built a fence to provide privacy from Hopyard Rd. These building and grounds <br />changes resulted in the Lodge starting to have parties and other activities on the north side of the <br />building during the day, opening the north side doors or keeping them open during parties at night, <br />extending the parties in the building into the north side yard area, and having sound from parties <br />inside the building pass through the doors on the north side. <br />Initially we wondered how the City Council and Planning Commission could grant a permit in a <br />residential area for a business to conduct such activities. The other two closest businesses to the <br />Masonic Lodge, which are both churches, do not have these types of activities. This question <br />caused us to request a copy of the Lodge's conditional use permit and also research the Planning <br />Commission files and meeting minutes for background on their thinking behind the provisions of <br />the permit. What we found indicated clearly to us that the Masonic Lodge is violating the intent of <br />the planning commission and the conditional use permit they were granted. <br />The property was originally owned by St. Claire's Church. St Claire's sold part of the land to the <br />Mason's. Therefore, a land parcel that was originally only meant for only one building now has <br />two. The 1977 staff report recognized this to be a problem in that the second building would be <br />located closer to the residents than preferred. The Staff report on page 1 states, "One of the positive <br />features of the conditional use permit approved for the church was that all structures were shown on <br />the southern part of the parcel considerably removed from the residences north of the subject <br />property. The current proposal shows the lodge building and a possible future parking in that <br />intervening upper zone." The site map has the back area being a parking lot. <br />Regarding the proposed conditional use permit, the Staff Report on page I states, "While lodge <br />meetings are normally staid affairs which do not generate much commotion, lodge buildings are <br />commonly rented for non -lodge affairs such as wedding receptions and parties which can be <br />nuisance creating. Physical separation of such facilities from residences therefore would normally <br />be desirable. While it might be pref rable to have the lodge building farther south on the property, <br />it would be possible to design the structure so as to maintain any noise generated frorp within. Thi <br />could be done by prohibitingopenings on the north or west sides of the structure, and therefore, <br />Activity would be focused away from the northern reidences." The staff report was clearly <br />concerned about noise nuisance, and wanted the building to be designed to keep the noise within the <br />structure and activities away from the north and west sides of the building so as not to be a nuisance <br />to the neighbors. <br />
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