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Planning Commission Regular Meeting Minutes August 20, 2024 Page 3 1 and concerns over the loss of taxable land, presuming that the new owner would put the 2 property to a tax-exempt land use. 3 4 After the Planning Commission’s June hearing, the applicants provided additional information 5 to staff, supplementing their request to more fully describe the proposed use, and address 6 certain concerns raised by the Commission. The applicants asked to delay the project’s 7 consideration by the City Council to allow this additional information to be reviewed. It was 8 determined that the additional information constituted a substantive change to the 9 understanding of the project proposal, and that the project is now understood was not fully 10 noticed in the initial hearing. 11 12 Staff notified the applicants that the project needed to return to a new public hearing before 13 the Planning Commission. The applicants provided additional written documentation on the 14 proposed amendment as a part of that new schedule. 15 16 The proposed application would reintroduce administrative offices for internal use, as well as 17 commercial office uses available to private tenants/lessees. 18 19 The use of the building would include community center uses of various types. Prominent 20 among these would be both the original after-school programming as previously proposed, 21 although other uses may include farmer’s markets, community fairs, or similar outdoor events. 22 23 The building will utilize the multi-purpose facility for religious institutional use, including 24 daily prayer and religious services open to the community throughout the day and week. 25 26 The applicants also supplemented their application with a new site plan drawing that indicated 27 the conversion of a portion of the property (previously used as a bank drive-through) to now 28 include an outdoor play/recreation space and reconfiguring the otherwise fully paved parking 29 area to add green space. 30 31 Mr. Grittman provided the zoning map and an aerial photo of the property and provided a 32 summary of the application compared to the City’s zoning Ordinance including Land Use, 33 Site and Building Improvements, and Tax Base Considerations. 34 35 While the applicants have added additional clarity to the proposed use and provided a concept 36 site plan that suggests additional green space on the mostly-impervious site, there are several 37 modifications or supplemental elements that should be incorporated into any recommendation 38 for the PUD amendment. Those modifications include the following: 39 1.40 Provide information on staffing during religious services in the multi-purpose 41 room and scale the capacity of the assembly to match the remaining available 42 parking on the site, at the rate of 2.5 persons per parking space. 43 2.44 Provide an interior floor plan schematic that shows the planned multi-purpose 45 space, and how assembly capacity will be controlled to meet the maximum 46 imposed by the parking supply.