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Excerpt of December 7. 2006 Board of Zoning Adjustments Meeting Page 2 of5 affect the ability of adult oriented businesses to locate in certain of the areas, which could not locate in any I District or be within 1,000 feet of religious assemblies or any other adult oriented business. An Initial Study and Negative Declaration would have to be performed, which required a 20-day public review period. The West San Leandro-MacArthur Redevelopment Advisory Committee was scheduled to hear this on December 20th. Planning Commission would review it after the Negative Declaration was prepared, tentatively scheduled for January 11 tho It should be ready for review by the City Council sometime in late February. Member Eliason asked if a religious organization could rent space within a shopping center or would the whole site be redeveloped. Planning Manager Pollart replied that a religious organization would be allowed to rent a tenant space. Chair Raposo asked ifthere would be any size limits within the Assembly Use. Planning Manager Poll art answered that he was correct. A possibility was to differentiate between small and large assembly use. Chair Raposo expressed concern about mega church or mega theater assemblies. He would like staff to look into limiting the size of such establishments. He wondered how parking would be tailored to the size of the assembly, which he understood was the situation with the church that was previously mentioned. Planning Manager PoUart stated that activities outside of the main assembly area but would affect the parking situation, would fall under the catch-all "or as required by the use permit." Additional parking could be required beyond the standard that was being proposed. Chair Raposo opened the public hearing. Gary Mortara, 577 Manor Boulevard, Pastor of the Faith Fellowship Church, stated that he was confused about how what had been discussed would affect the building his church wished to purchase on January 1st. Planning Manager Poll art replied that the proposed amendments did not speak specifically to the property the speaker was in contract with. That site was zoned IP, rather than IL. This was.a clean-up of the CZC. Pastor Mortara asked what the church had to do to address the property on Catalina Street that they were concerned with. Planning Manager Pollart suggested that he request that the site be included as one of the overlay areas. Pastor Mortara asked if that was something he could do at this time. He had understood that was something that he had already requested.