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conditional use permit, the applicants can be required to mitigate future problems, should they arise. The attached Planning Commission staff report dated November 29, 2006, provides a detailed description and discussion of the proposed applications, including the issues raised at the neighborhood meeting, site plan and building placement, architecture/design, Green Building, noise, traffic/circulation, parking, grading/drainage, landscaping, tree removal and mitigation, and the variance findings. This report includes supplemental discussion regarding the issues raised in the appellants' letter of appeal. Traffic and Parking The appellants are concerned with church members parking on the public streets in their neighborhood. Staff believes that there would be adequate on-site parking at the church to accommodate the proposed activities in the parish center. Also, the proposed activities in the parish center building would be scheduled such that no major events would occur simultaneously in the sanctuary/chapel and proposed parish center building. However, the church acknowledges that some of the existing Sunday services, particularly the popular 6:30 p.m. Sunday service, have been creating overflow parking in some of the adjacent neighborhood streets and Rheem Drive businesses' parking lots. Consequently, staff and the church have worked together to provide additional parking for the church's Sunday services and minimize chances of parishioners parking in the surrounding neighborhoods and businesses. For instance, the church obtained permission to use the 95-space parking lot at the adjacent 2174-2186 Rheem Drive office/light industrial property from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Sundays. A condition requires the church obtain another suitable off-site parking area for overflow parking or construct an on-site gravel parking lot on the undeveloped eastern side of the church site should this parking agreement ever be terminated. The church will also be restriping/signing the Stoneridge Drive frontage in front of its property to allow on-street parking on Sundays from 3:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Establishing the limited time parking zone on Stoneridge Drive must be approved separately by Council resolution, which has been included with this report for action. On-street parking is also available along the church's Rheem Drive frontage. Conditions also require that the church regularly inform its members to not park in front of the adjacent residential neighborhoods or the off-street parking spaces in the light industrial/office developments along Rheem Drive (except as allowed by the parking agreement) and to install a few temporary signs on Rheem Drive during Sunday services requesting church members not to park in front of residences. The church will also install a fence in its southern planter area near the Bowen Street and Alexander Way intersection to address the neighbors' complaint that some church members park along the Pleasanton Village streets and then use this "short cut" to reach the church. The appellants believe that it would be unsafe for church members to walk across Rheem Drive to use the parking lot at 2174-2186 Rheem Drive since there isn't a crosswalk or stop sign. The City Traffic Engineer indicated that this situation is similar to neighborhood collector streets SR:07:003 Page 5