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current spaces do not comply with length and fire truck access and proposes eliminating them, which would result in 306 parking spaces on the current proposal. Uses proposed for the pazish center include basketball practices and games, Church programs, youth group center, a nursery, religious education classes, religious seminars and conferences, funeral receptions, Church banquets, benefits and dances, and Sunday service brunches. The applicant has agreed that activities in the parish center building and existing church, chapel and sanctuazy will not occur simultaneously. The gymnasium is at the southern end of the building, and the conference center is at the northern end of the building with a variety of meeting rooms, classrooms, kitchen, bathrooms and nursery in the center. Gymnasium walls will undulate up and down and in and out. Landscaping will be installed azound the building. A pedestrian access exists in the southern side of the property between the Church and the Pleasanton Village neighborhood. Some neighbors have indicated that this pathway is a nuisance when Church attendees pazk in front of their homes and use the pedestrian access to walk to the Church. They have requested that a fence be installed to prevent Church members from walking from cazs pazked in the neighborhood to the Church. The Church has agreed to install the fence. A meeting was held last month for neighbors to comment on the proposed plan. Neighbors provided comments on building placement and orientation and expressed concerns with traffic, pazking, noise, safety, screening, and constrncrion impacts. Letters received from residents and surrounding commercial businesses have been received and have been included with the staff report. The Church has moved the building ten feet farther to the north away from neighbors. Because activities in the parish center and the existing Church will not occur at the same time and existing Sunday services currently provide a higher parking demand, city staff requested that the Church conduct pazking counts of pazking required at existing Church services that resulted in a maximum of 413 vehicles for the 6:30 p.m. service, which exceeds the Church's existing 311 pazking spaces on-site. As a result, staff had requested that the Church construct a gravel overflow parking lot on the eastern side of the Church property. The Church responded that it did not wish to construct the pazking lot requested by staff and negotiated with a set of nearby property owners located on Rheem Drive to use their 95 spaces to accommodate overflow pazking. The Church has also requested that it be allowed to use on-street pazking for 28 vehicles along Stoneridge Drive during the 4:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. evening services. Staff believes that the height variance fora 34-foot tall building is supportable and believes it is difficult to perceive the height difference between a 30-foot tall building and a 34-foot tall building. The applicant expressed concern about a condition from staff that the noise from the air conditioning units not being perceptible beyond the property plane. Staff has revised this to a condition limiting the noise levels from mechanical equipment to 60 dBA at the property plane. Staff recommends that the Commission make the variance findings and approve the project. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES November 29, 2006 Page 4 of 28