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meet and to have uses that aze being carried on now at the Church shifted to a proper location. Acting Chairperson Fox began a discussion regarding past decisions of the City Council during Ms. Michelotti's tenure with the Council. Acting Chairperson Fox noted that Ms. Michelotti was on the Council when the Early Learning Institute appeal was heazd by the City Council and asked whether she recalled the discussions on cumulative impact of school concentration as well as the 1998 appeal of the Saint Elizabeth Seton Master Plan. Acting Chairperson Fox recalled that in the 1998 appeal hearing in front of the City Council, the issue was the location of the driveway and its distance from Bowen Street because the neighbors wanted it closer to Stoneridge Drive. Acting Chairperson Fox asked Ms. Michelotti that given her comments regazding school impacts, whether Ms. Michelotti at the time felt that the appropriate location for school should be located next to Nielsen Pazk rather than the pazcel adjacent to Rheem Drive. Ms. Michelotti indicated that the staff believed it was very important because of the definite impacts on the community that the future school located on Saint Elizabeth Seton should go through a separate conditional use pertnit process. She indicated that the Church and chapel and related buildings were under the original conditional use permit. In addition, Ms. Michelotti stated that the original driveway location was at the corner of Bowen Street and Alexander Street and because of the Planning Commission's concerns at the time, it was moved. Frank Spindler, 1338 Benedict Court, strongly supported this project and asked the neighbors to look at the Church's benefits to the community by the activities, be they athletic, spiritual, and educational. He noted that the additional activity would be a small percentage of the overall existing Church activities. He added that the scope of the building was a fraction of the existing Church, and he believed it was well scaled. He believed the additional traffic impact was also small when compazed to existing traffic. He noted that this was not ataxpayer-funded or corporate-funded project; it was funded entirely by the members of the Catholic Community of Pleasanton. Greg Thome, Co-Athletic Director, CYO program, 1745 Paseo del Cajon, described the educational benefits of this program. He noted that the City was the lazgest scheduler of youth activities within Pleasanton and that the CYO program was co-sponsored by the City. He added that the school system was the second-lazgest scheduler, and that the Church worked closely with both entities at those times. He noted that the City did not allow 18 hours of play at any of their facilities, and that they were asked to leave the middle schools at 9:00 to 9:30 p.m. Rather than talking about the feaz of what could occur, he suggested examining what has happened over the last 20 yeazs that he has been personally involved. He noted that rules had been followed and maintained, and noted that there had been great adherence to responsibility and respect in connection with the activities. He noted that, for example, Diocese-wide rules state that aze not allowed to use the existing gym before 12 noon on Sundays because it would conflict with church services, or at any other time which would conflict with services and mass. He noted that they had a demonstrated history of respecting the rules and the neighborhood. He PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES November 29, 2006 Page 17 of 28