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City Council Staff Report May 9, 2000 ' . PD-99-5/A-98-7 Page 2 of 4 nursery room and a 2,500 square -foot worship hall, or sanctuary, that can hold approximately 200 people. The floor plan of the existing church building is shown on Exhibit H. The Faria site at 519 Manor Boulevard was developed with small buildings which were built between the early part of the century and the 1960s. The structures were used to house the Faria Brothers hardware store and light industrial uses, such as welding and plumbing services. All but one of these buildings was demolished in 1999; the remaining building is located on the southeast corner and will be used by the church as a youth center. In the eight years since the church was established at this site, the congregation of Faith Fellowship Foursquare Church has grown rapidly, from 100 to approximately 700 weekly attendees. The church's leadership believes that the existing building cannot adequately accommodate the needs of its congregation. The chance to expand the church came in 1998, when the Faria Brothers hardware store vacated the adjacent property. The church bought the property with the intention of building a new sanctuary building to hold worship services. The Zoning Code provides that a major expansion of a church use requires a conditional use permit (Zoning Code Section 2-516). Since the applicant also needs approval to change the zoning on the Faria site to allow a church use, staff recommended that the applicant go through the Planned Development procedure to simplify the planning approval process. This report outlines the project presented at the March 23, 2000 Planning Commission hearing. Information about the original proposal can be found in the October 19, 1999 staff report. SUMMARY OF PROPOSAL This proposal would create a 2.39-acre site for a church use. The site would be developed with two church buildings: the existing 9,218 square -foot church building and the new 13,870 square -foot sanctuary, or worship hall. A third building, the sole building remaining from the Faria Brothers business, is located on the southeast corner of the site. This building is 2,200 square -feet in area and will house a church youth center. In front of the church buildings and the youth center would be a parking lot with 154 parking. spaces. The new sanctuary building would be located on the eastern property line, along the I-880 Freeway. The new building will be two stories tall, but the second story will only have offices and a sound room from the sanctuary area; no seating for the sanctuary will be located upstairs. The sanctuary building will be used for church services and an occasional large meeting. It will have a choir room, a baptistry, bathrooms, a mom's room and a lobby, but the majority of the square footage is devoted to the worship hall. PI