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4 August 1982 PLANNING REPORT CASE NUMBER: 1384E -82 APPLICANT: School District 623 (Roseville) LOCATION: South of County Road B, Westerly of Fairview Avenue ACTION REQUESTED: Approval of Special Use Permit to Add Parking PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS. 1. For about a year rep aresentatives of the School Board have been discussing with the City Staff methods by which the acute parking problem at Fairview Community Center could be solved* The basic problem is related to the conduct of the senior citizens program at the center which results in an influx of cars principally related to the lunch program (and other a ctivities ) for senior citizens. The result has been the parking of vehicles in +the level grassy area at the end of the school ( south of county Road B) 2. As you know, prior to the conversion of the former junior high school to a community center, the City adopted an amendment to the Zoning ordinance establishing specific non - school uses that can be allowed in such a center owned by the School District, other uses require special-use permits, one of which is the addition of any parking capacity* 3. Representatives of the School Board initially indicated their desire to construct a new parking area south of the southernmost building, which would have had as its only access a drive off Prior Avenue from the south. Prior Avenue in this area of the City is accessible only through a single family residential district, which would have resulted in substantial additional traffic in this single family residential area. The new proposal involved the construction of a< parking lot in the large grass area west of the parking lot that exists directly off County Road B. This would have been allowable except- that it is a considerable distance _ from the senior citizens normal entrance point into the building, and would have contributed a deleterious effect to the aesthetic value of the building as viewed from its principal frontage along Counter road B. It was also discovered that there are substantial soil problems in this area which would have made the parking lot more expensive. The location we had been recommending consistently was where the School District now proposes to put the lot, that is on the east side of the property, south of the easterly most structures. This location is accessible by a driveway from the existing drive entrance off of County Road By thereby not introducing additional traffic on single family