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-5- 1 Nay: Bowerman. 2 3 Motion carried. 4 5 At 8:01 P.M. , the Chair opened the hearing to consider a petition from the Nativity 6 Lutheran Church, 3312 Silver Lake Road, r foa conditional use permit in an R-1 , 7 single family residential district, to construct the addition they proposed on 8 the west side of the church-. and to expand their parking facilities by removing 9 the house at the northeast corner of 33rd Avenue N.E. and Silver Lake Road and, '10 in its place, constructing 38 parking spaces to=,accommodate=additional--,parking�ci+- 11 the facility. 12 13 The notice of the hearing had been published in the November 5, 1985 Bulletin and 14 mailed to all property owners of record within 350 feet of the subject property. 15 No present reported failure to receive the notice or objected to its content. 16 17 The request had been given a concept review by the Commission at their October 18 meeting and the Manager reiterated that -thO,.Ci,ty would be happy to see the church 19 would be providing the congregation-,vwith more parking on the east side of the 20 building because there had always been a concern about the foot traffic between 21 the church and the Community Center parking -lot, which many Nativity parishioners 22 preferred to the parking available to them on the other side of the church. 23 24 As had been stated at the October discussion, Mr. Childs reiterated that the original 25 plans for an addition on the west side of the church had been redrawn a little 26 farther south to meet the concerns about the proximity'of: the addition to his 27 property which had been expressed by Richard Porter, the church's closest neighbor, 28 at 3329 Belden Drive, who was also in attendance that evening. The Manager 29 indicated he hoped the unidentified neighbor who had called staff to indicate she 30 didn't like the idea of having a .parking lot located so close to her home, was 31 present to share her concerns with the church officials that evening. These had 32 been the only contacts with adjacent property owners that the City had up to this 33 evening, Mr. Childs said. 34 35 The revised plans for the expansion and parking projects were presented by John 36 Hensel , Chairman of the church Building Committee, Stan Gordon, President of the 37 Nativity congregation; Richard Carlson, a member of the Building Committee; and 38 Paul Erickson, the architect for the project. 39 40 Mr. Hensel indicated the church had been actively working for the last two or 41 three years to plan a project which would address the needs Nativity had exper 42 ienced with a very active and vital congregation, which in the last five years had 43 resulted in a real vitality in growth. With the growth in the congregation numbers, 44 especially in young f amilies, 'the Building Chairman said, the church officials 45 had realized the need to address not only the age of the church building itself, 46 but also the necessity to expand the programs for pre-school and older youth 47 groups. Mr. Hensel said the new parking lot would not only expand the existing 48 parking capability to meet the congregation increase, but would also provide safe 49 access to the first floor level , which is offered on a limited basis now, where 50 lighting and security are preceived to be better. Another important part of the 51 project, the Nativity spokesman said, would be the handicapped elevator access in 52 the addition on the west side, which had been moved back away from Mr. Porter's • 53 residence to .meet his concerns about encroachment. 54 55 The architect answered questions related to the updated site, building, and eleva- 56 tion plans for the project which, he said, would maintain the required setbacks 57 all around the building and would retain the front door on Silver Lake Road.