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PLN2007-00013 6 February 19, 2008 Faith Fellowship Worship Center Uniform Building Code (International Building Code) • The Uniform Building Code (now superceded by the International Building Code) sets building standards for occupants within a given structure. The Uniform Building Code provides standards for construction related to different types of occupancies. The zoning Code provides standards for appropriate land uses and separation of land uses, where necessary. In this instance, there is no relationship between what the Uniform Building Code refers to as an assembly use and what the Zoning Code refers to as an assembly use. Zoning Codes protect incompatible land uses from being located in close proximity to one another. Parking Code Deficiencies: • Parking requirements for assembly uses, per Zoning Code Article 17, are 1 space for 50 square feet of assembly use. The applicant is proposing 185 spaces. It is staff's position that the use of the existing industrial building for an assembly use would exceed the amount of parking proposed. • Staff has re -analyzed the parking requirements for the proposed project, and upon further reflection, the total amount of assembly space calculated for the proposed project is 10,348 square feet which is associated with the main sanctuary. By applying the I space per 50 square feet ratio, the use would be required to provide 206 parking spaces to meet the City's parking standards. Therefore, the proposed use does not meet Article 17, Off -Street Parking and Loading Regulations for an assembly use, which requires 1 parking space per 50 square feet of assembly space because it would be deficient by 21 parking spaces. Traffic Impacts • According to the trip generation rates provided by the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), the amount of traffic generated by the proposed assembly use would be potentially significant. For instance, on Sundays, the average volume of vehicular trips generated would be 1,688 ADTs. During peak periods, there would be an average of 542 cars traveling to and from the proposed use, per hour, on Sundays. During the weekdays, when traffic generated to and from the proposed use is expected to be lower in volume, as most church services and activities are occurring on the week -ends, there would still be approximately 419 ADTs generated by the proposed assembly use. • By comparison, the amount of traffic generated by an industrial use would be much lower and would have fewer impacts on the surrounding transportation network. For example, on Sundays, the average number of trips generated would be 31 (as compared to 1,688 for the assembly use). Further, there would be an anticipated 4.6 vehicles generated to and from the proposed industrial use, per hour, on Sundays (as compared to the 542 generated by the proposed assembly use). During the weekdays, when the industrial use would be more fully