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1 J i' STAFF REPORT Date: April, 2006 for the Meeting of April 24, 2006 Applicant: Lakewood Evangelical Free Church Location: Southeast Quadrant of Keats Avenue and State Highway 36 Requested Action: Zoning Variance — Sidewall Height Land Use Plan Guiding: PF Existing Zoning: PF Site History and Existing Conditions: On April 28, 2005 the City Council approved several concurrent applications related to the 20 acre site for which this Site Plan is here presented. Regarding this site, the City approved a Preliminary Plat creating the site and the public road that would serve the site; a Comprehensive Plan Amendment changing the classification of the site from RAD to PF, a rezoning of the site from RR to PF; and a Conditional Use Permit for a church facility on the 20 acre site. No Section 520 Site Plan was approved at that time, however. An OP Concept Plan was also approved fdr the balance of the overall 108 acres owned by the applicant by a separate action. Subsequent to the 2005 approvals Valley Branch Watershed District issued a grading permit for the north portion of the 108 acres site (including the subject 20 acres and public street). The City Engineer also reviewed and approved the installation of water main in the public street. That installation was inspected during construction by City consultants, and includes trunk water main needed by the City for system looping purposes The City Engineer is now preparing plans and specifications to extend City water main from the Sanctuary neighborhood to the Discover Crossing neighborhoods and then to this site during 2006. The Planning Commission first considered a site plan for the 50,000+ square foot Rockpoint Church facility on April 10, 2006. That application was tabled pending proper variance hearing Notice when it was discovered by staff that there were four implied variances from PF or or zoning standards — exterior materials, sidewall height, steeple height, and parking setback. Discussion and Analysis: Since the April 10 Planning Commission meeting two of the four variances noted have ceased to be required and/or requested. The applicant has submitted revised site plan eliminating the parking setback issue; and, the staff has conferred with the City Attorney and secured his opinion regarding the internal Zoning Ordinance standards conflict related to the steeple height. The fourth variance — exterior materials — is also addressed by another Hearing on the April 24 Planning Commission agenda that, if adopted, would amend the PF district standards to incorporate the same architectural performance standards as were adopted for the commercial zones in 2002. The City Attorney has advised that the apparent conflict between the general height limi found in Section 300.12 of the ordinance (likely a 1980 vintage standard), and those that