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Up to 12 parent/guardian vehicles would use the applicant's driveway or on-street parking for drop-off and pick-up if the majority do not carpool to and from the daycare home. The project narrative indicates that drop-off times would be staggered, as the full-time students start to arrive after 7 a.m. when the day care home opens and the part-time students would be dropped off after 8 a.m. and picked up between 12 p.m. and 12:10 p.m. Late afternoon/early evening pickup time would be staggered between 3:45 p.m. and 6 p.m. In general, pick-up and drop-off take approximately five minutes per parent/guardian. Finally, the two-car garage would accommodate the applicant's and the full-time assistant's vehicles. The part-time assistant may park on the street in front of the residence. Parents would use the driveway for drop-off and pick-up, and may also use on-street parking in front of the residence for drop-off and pick-up if the driveway is not available. Prior to the Zoning Administrator hearing, staff made two visits to the project site to observe the applicant's current drop-off and pick-up operation during the morning and afternoon periods. Staff observed that parents used the applicant's driveway when dropping-off/picking-up children. Additionally, staff observed that there was ample on-street parking either in front of the project site or within a reasonable distance to the project site that would meet the parking demand from the proposed large family daycare home for drop-off and pick-up. If daycare parents continue to use the driveway and on-street parking in front of the residence for drop-off and pick-up, parking will not be an issue. The Zoning Administrator's approval includes a condition requiring the applicant to inform daycare parents to use the driveway and on-street parking in front of the residence for drop-off/pick-up. D. Noise Control. Large family daycare homes shall not create noise levels in excess of those allowed in single-family residential areas in the noise element of the general plan or in excess of those allowed in residential property by Chapter 9.04 of this code. The zoning administrator may impose reasonable limits on the hours of operation of the large family daycare home in order to ensure that these limits are met. Chapter 9.04 of the PMC regulates noise levels for different land uses. Section 9.04.030 Noise Limits-Residential property states: "No person shall produce or allow to be produced by any machine, animal, device, or any combination of the same, on residential property, noise level in excess of 60 dBA [A-weighted decibels] at any point outside of the property plane, unless otherwise provided in this chapter." According to the PMC, "noise level" means the maximum continuous sound level or repetitive peak level produced by a source or group of sources as measured with a precision sound level meter using the "A" weighting scale, with the meter response function set to "slow." The City's interpretation has been that this standard does not apply to human voices as human voices (including those associated with children's play and normal conversations) are a typical component of residential neighborhoods in Pleasanton. Human voices in typical circumstances also generally do not contribute to the noise environment in a constant and continuous way that would support a Code Enforcement action. While one could imagine an extreme example of a situation where human voices would be considered to violate the Noise Ordinance (e.g., a stadium filled with people adjacent to a residential district, or loud recreational activities in the middle of the night), groups of children playing outside during daytime hours do not generally rise to the level of a violation because this P18-0314, 3149 Chardonnay Drive Planning Commission 7 of 9