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Excerpt of December 7, 2006 Board of Zoning Adjustments Meeting Page 50f5 impact the adjoining uses from being in that location. If his application was a part of that environmental review, an assessment of those environmental impacts would be available to the Commission and Council to allow them to add his proposal to the other proposed overlay districts and to make an informed opinion. Ed Bullok, 25103 Vista Greens Court, Hayward, stated that he was a member of Faith Fellowship Church. He disagreed with staff that the proposed new site for the church did not fit the criteria for rezoning. He read the listed criteria (above, under Option 2) starting on page 2, which he believed were met by the proposed site. Planning Manager Poll art stated that at the bottom of page 2, it stated that properties were not be designated IG or IP; this property was designated IP. A discussion ensued concerning zoning, city overlays and the two options that had been presented at the joint work session in October, of which Option 2 had been chosen. It was recommended that the speaker meet with staff to clear up the confusion about the church's proposal and the city's wide ranging proposals. Motion to Close the Public Hearing (Marr/Eliason; 5 Ayes, 0 Noes, 2 Absent-Chin, Sidari) Member Eliason believed in protecting the city's industrial areas and she expressed concerned about allowing incompatible land uses in those areas. However, she was more concerned with allowing churches to locate in vacant tenant spaces in the two marginal shopping centers. In her opinion, those spaces would slowly contribute to the further decline of the centers, because they were largely unused except on Sundays. Planning Manager Pollart stated that all of the comments made would be forwarded to the Planning Commission.