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Excerpt of December 7, 2006 Board of Zoning Adjustments Meeting Page 1 of5 Item 6: Public Hearing (b) Matter of consideration of amendments to the Zoning Code, including: Article 3 - Definitions, deleting the Clubs and Lodges and Religious Assembly definitions and providing a new Assembly Use definition; and adding new Article 13.1 Assembly Use Overlay District Planning Manager Poll art stated that staff had received an application from Faith Fellowship Church to amend the zoning code to conditionally permit assembly uses in the IL Industrial Limited District. The church was in contract to purchase a site in an Industrial Professional District, but desired to change it to IL, based upon discussions with staff concerning the best way to proceed with the application. Currently, assembly uses were indicated as Clubs and Lodges and Religious Assembly. At the work session, two options were presented: . Option I: Allow assembly uses as conditionally permitted in IL Zones, effective citywide. . Option 2: Apply assembly use overlay to identified areas. Option 2 was identified as the desired option at the joint work session. Several General Plan policies were used as a base for the amendments. The criteria were: . Not located along commercial corridors to preserve the commercial characters . Properties not identified as IG Industrial General or IP Industrial Professional . Industrial zones could be used if the site was near the periphery of the industrial uses to avoid breaking up the industrial bases . Minimum two-acre sites to address large assembly uses . Properties that abutted or were one-quarter mile from an arterial streets to avoid impacting residential neighborhoods . Vacant or underutilized properties that might be available in the future She passed a large map to the Board that showed the entire city with existing religious assembly uses, IL zoned properties (Option I), 13 overlay areas, and the existing Faith Fellowship Church site and its new proposed site. She described each area. Clubs and Lodges and Religious Assembly Uses would be deleted and all would be under Assembly Uses, which would be conditionally permitted in R Districts. Article 13 would allow establishing an Assembly Use Overlay District. Additional criteria were being considered that would address impacts that larger assembly uses might have on parking and transportation. Article 17 would, essentially, be a cleanup that would delete Clubs and Lodges and replace with Assembly Use. The parking requirement would be modified to provide the ability to require more parking, if needed. All of the identified areas on the map would be rezoned with the special Assembly Use Overlay, with the exceptions noted. If the Assembly Use Overlay were instituted, it would not change the underlying zoning of the individual parcels or the current use of a property. The overlay would A TT ACHMENT F