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Please refer to the "Background" section of the attached Planning Commission staff report dated November 29, 2006, for information on the prior City approvals granted to the church for this site. PROJECT DESCRIPTION The applicants are proposing to modify their 1998 master plan to allow construction of a 22,296- square-foot parish center building with gymnasium. The parish center building would be located at the western end of the site where a future 25,000-square-foot elementary school building was shown on the 1998 master plan. The future elementary school building (noted as Building E on the proposed site plan) would be relocated to the eastern end of the site. The parish center building would replace the 11,900-square-foot multi-purpose/gymnasium building and the 13,920-square-foot classroom building that were shown on the eastern end of the site in the 1998 master plan. The 4,860-square-foot rectory building would remain as a future option on the eastern end of the site. The revised master plan would result in a total of approximately 78,046-square-feet of building area on the site, which is a 3,524-square-foot reduction from the 1998 master plan. The parish center would be used by a variety of church-related uses, several of which currently occur in the existing sanctuary/chapel building and would be moved to the parish center building. Please see the applicants' written narrative for additional use details, including the number of attendees and the timing and frequency of the uses. The church has scheduled the activities such that no major events would occur simultaneously in the sanctuary/chapel and proposed parish center building. Users of the proposed parish center building would utilize the existing church parking lots, which would have a total of 306 spaces, as proposed and conditioned. In addition, the church has secured a parking agreement with the owners of the adjacent 2174-2186 Rheem Drive office/light industrial property to use their 95-space parking lot from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Sundays. The church has proposed to restripe its Stoneridge Drive frontage to allow on-street parking on Sundays, which staff estimates could accommodate 28 parallel parked vehicles. An additional 10 vehicles could park along the church's Rheem Drive frontage, where on-street parking is currently allowed. The contemporary styled parish center building contains architectural elements similar to the existing church building. A feature unique to the proposed building is the eastern and western gymnasium walls, which would tilt inward at the top and slightly undulate in and out and up and down. The parish center would utilize the same brown- and tan-colored split-face concrete block and stucco materials/colors of the existing sanctuary/chapel building. A brown-colored standing-seam metal material would be used on the sloped roofs and some of the building walls. The parish center building would have a maximum height of 34 feet at the top of the gymnasium walls. This height requires a variance from the required 30-foot maximum height. SR:07:003 Page 3