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Parking The Pleasanton Municipal Code requires that office use provide parking at a ratio of one parking space for every 300 square feet of gross floor area. The existing 12,800-squaze-foot building provides a total of 49 parking spaces, which is consistent with the parking requirement (43 parking spaces are required by the parking ordinance). As previously mentioned, the proposed program would employee two full-time employees. Given the age of students who would be enrolled in the program, the applicant indicates that the majority of the students would be carpooling to the facility and that they would be picked-up individually by their parents at the end of the program. The current parking lot was constructed to support the office building on the subject site. The proposed after-school program may require more pazking spaces than it is require by an office use. In this case, the issue is whether the existing pazking is adequate to handle the parking demand generated during the 10-minute drop-off 1:ime in the afternoon. At the estimation of four students per vehicle, eight parking spaces would be needed for carpool vehicles. Staff visited the subject site around 3:30 p.m., and observed that, on an average, 32 parking spaces, or approximately 65% of the parking spaces were available. In discussion of the proposed use with the property owner, staff was informed that parking has not been an issue at the subject site since it provides more parking spaces than that is required by the pazking ordinance. The property owner also indicated that short-term parking spaces could be designated to facilitate the parking demand during the drop-off time. Based on the site observation, staff believes that the on-site parking is sufficient to support the short-term parking demand from the proposed use. In addition, the parking lot appeared rather empty after 5:15 p.m. Thus, there should not be a parking/circulation issue at and after 5:30 p.m. when the parents go to the facility to pick up their children. State Licensing Review The State Department of Social Services Community Care Licensing has reviewed the proposal. Pursuant to Section 101158 of State of California F[ealth and Safety Code, the State licensing department has granted an exemption status to the proposed program based on its caring for school age children and its weekly operation of 15 Hours or less. To ensure that the facility would always in compliance with the State licensing requirements in the event of changing operation hours and/or accepting younger children, staff has added a condition of approval requiring the facility owner/operator to obtain prior State approval. Case No. PCUP-138 Planning Commission Page - 4 -