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i~ '~, ~'" v~ ~` ~ ~ The Applicant received a CUP from the Zoning Administrator for a previous business location at 7980 Amador Valley Boulevazd on February 28, 1996. Tri-Valley Martial Arts moved to the project location in 2001. The business was contacted by the Dublin Zoning Enforcement Division last year for illegal signs and for operating a business without a CUP. The Applicant has removed the signage and submitted an application for this CUP to legalize the use, as required by the Zoning Ordinance. A1~tALYSIS: The Tri-Valley Martial Arts studio and youth center can be categorized as both an indoor recreation facility and as a community facility/daycare center because it shares some of the characteristics of each. Both community facilities and in-door recreation facilities require a Conditional Use Permit pursuant to the Zoning Ordinance. Parking Analvsis City Staff reviewed the existing shazed pazking condition in the shopping center (Attachment 3). The existing parking lot provides approximately 500 spaces within. a 450-foot radius of the subject site (an approximately 5 minute walk within the same pazking area}. The required parking for the martial arts studio is 61 parking spaces. With the addition of the proposed martial arts studio, the combination of uses in the shopping center would require 516 spaces, according to the Zoning Ordinance's Off-Street Parking and Loading Regulations. The Zoning Ordinance allows reductions of required parking for individual uses (Section 8.76.050.E} under certain conditions. In Section 8.76.OSO.E, a reduction in required parking maybe made if a parking study analyzes the parking demand of similaz uses, demonstrating that the required standards aze excessive and proposing an alternative standard which would ensure that there is not a parking deficiency and that overflow pazking would not adversely impact adjacent uses. Pursuant to Section 8.76.050.E, the City's Traffic Engineer reviewed a Pazking Study (Attachment 3) which analyzed the demand generated by similar uses and found that the demand is less than the parking spaces required in the Zoning Ordinance. Tn addition, the experience of Tri-Valley Martial Arts business stated that the required parking standard was excessive in this case because so many students of the school are dropped off by their parents or transported by Tri-Valley Martial Arts in the business' 15-passenger van. The Traffic Engineer found that the proposed alternative parking standard in the Parking Study was appropriate because it linked parking demand to the number of students and employees. The .Trafnc Engineer determined that the alternative standard would ensure that there would not be a pazking deficiency and that overflow parking would not impact any adjacent use because, as conditioned, the martial arts studio is limited to 40 students and five employees at any one time (Condition 1). In conclusion, the City's Traffic Engineer reviewed the shortage of 16 parking spaces. The City Traffic Engineer determined that a reduction of 16 from the martial arts center requirement through limiting class size and employees, would satisfy the parking. demand in the shopping center. A recommended Condition s of Approval would Limit class size to 40 students and to five employees at any one time (Condition 1). Therefore, Staff recommends a pazking reduction for the martial arts studio from 61 parking spaces to 'S spaces. Student Loading Area The proposed Martial Arts Youth Center drop-off and pick-up pattern is comparable to a daycare facility. Section 8.76.080.D of the Zoning Ordinance requires the provision of an adequate loading area for drop- off and pick-up of students for a daycaze center (for fifteen or more children). The requirement specifies ,.: ~ , :{G - . ' ~_ Page 2