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Messiah Lutheran Church Expansion <br />Staff Report <br />April 20, 2000 <br />Page 5 <br /> <br /> <br />Churches and other institutional uses are conditionally permitted within the R-1, Single-family residential district. <br /> <br />(6) The use is not in conflict with the Comprehensive Plan of the City. <br />The Comprehensive Plan designates this site—including the two residential lots--as Institutional, appropriate for this type of use. <br /> (7) The use will not cause traffic hazards or congestion. <br /> <br />Staff is unaware of any significant congestion problems or hazards on either <br />Knollwood Drive or County Road H2 as a result of the Church’s services. It is <br />not expected that the first phase of the expansion would add much if any <br />volume to either street. Also, the times during which the Church would have <br />its greatest impact upon the street is also a period of relatively low traffic <br />counts. Given these facts, it is not anticipated that the proposed first phase <br />of construction would cause traffic hazards or congestion. <br /> <br /> <br />Specific CUP Requirements: <br /> <br />Section 1106.04 of the Zoning Code addresses conditionally permitted uses within the <br />R-1 zoning district. Subdivision 1 of this Section addresses the specific CUP <br />requirements for Churches, which are as follows, listed with responses relating to the <br />present facility and proposed expansion, as appropriate: <br /> <br />a. Front yard depths shall be a minimum of thirty-five feet (35'). <br /> <br />The existing front yard setbacks for the Church are 35 feet facing Knollwood <br />Drive and 63 feet facing County Road H2. Phase One of the proposed <br />expansion will not change the existing setback. <br /> <br />b. Side yards shall be no less than thirty feet (30'). <br /> <br />The sideyard building setbacks for the Church exceed 200 feet. This <br />requirement is met, before and after the expansion. <br /> <br />c. Minimum lot area shall be no less than one (1) acre, or as provided in Section <br />1104.02, subdivision 2b(3). (Ord. 590, 11-25-96) <br />The property the Church occupies comprises 6.1 acres, of which approximately five acres considered developable. This requirement is met. <br /> d. Adequate screening from abutting residential uses and landscaping is provided <br />in compliance with Section 1103.08 of this Title. <br />The Church has submitted and landscape plan which addresses screening issues, an element of which consists of a four to five foot tall row of evergreen <br />arbor vitaes along the property’s northeast border, between the proposed