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September 24th, 2024 Page 3 The Planning Commission ultimately voted to recommend against the proposed amendment in a split vote. Favorable votes included comments that the use was a valuable one for the neighborhood and community at large, among others. Votes against the amendment cited concerns over an inadequate description of the project plans, the loss of the opportunity for affordable housing on the site, and concerns over the loss of taxable land, presuming that the new owner would put the property to a tax-exempt land use. July, 2024. After the Planning Commission’s June hearing, the applicants provided additional information to staff, supplementing their request on July 1, 2024 to more fully describe the proposed use, and address certain concerns raised by the Commission. The applicants asked to delay the project’s consideration by the City Council to allow this additional information to be reviewed. It was determined that the additional information constituted a substantive change to the understanding of the project proposal, and that the project as now understood was not fully noticed in the initial hearing. As such, staff notified the applicants that the project needed to return to a new public hearing before the Planning Commission. The applicants provided additional written documentation on the proposed amendment as a part of that new schedule. As now described, the proposed application would reintroduce administrative offices for internal use, as well as commercial office uses available to private tenants/lessees. Finally, the use of the building would include community center uses of various types. Prominent among these would be both the original after-school programming as previously proposed, although other uses may include farmer’s markets, community fairs, or similar outdoor events. Most significantly, the building will utilize the multi-purpose facility for religious institutional use, including daily prayer and religious services open to the community throughout the day and week. The applicants also supplemented their application with a new site plan drawing that indicated the conversion of a portion of the property (previously used as a bank drive-through) to now include an outdoor play/recreation space, and reconfiguring the otherwise fully paved parking area to add green space. August, 2024. The applicants submitted a PowerPoint presentation at the August 20 public hearing. At that hearing, the Commission heard from staff and the applicants, as well as a number of members of the public. The public commenters were mixed in their support of the proposal, with a number in favor based generally on the purposes and benefits of the Tibyan organization and what it would bring to the community, and others expressing opposition, primarily due to concerns over the capacity of the site to handle the traffic and parking needs on site. Other concerns related to information related to subsurface environmental contamination. The Commission discussed the proposal extensively, including the discussion and aspects raised by members of the public. The Commission asked about the Staff recommendation, and why it had changed from the original June review to the August review. Staff noted that for the