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-� -� T4C currently services 500 churchgoers once or twice each week and has plans to have the ability to serve up to 1,000 churchgoers in three distinct language assemblies at a single site. This allows couples with diverse language skills and their English-speaking children to share the assembly, teaching and social times together in one building. As the largest Chinese-oriented church assembly in the metro area with over 50 years of history and strong ties in community service in the Roseville community area, T4C would be a significant Cultural Institution with spaces for Meeting Hall, Business and Counseling Offices, Music & Dance instruction and performance, for Traditional dining in line with the Restaurant I classification-- all currently permitted uses in the B-3 District. Minimum Requirements for the Business Zonine Districts are shown in Section 1005.01. They are identical between the B-3 zoning classification and the B-1 that allows the church use. How does the use of the 2755 Lone Lake Road site bv T4C fit with future Institutional Zonin¢ Classification oossiblv to be qroposed in the oendin¢ zonin¢ chan¢es in the fall of 2010? The pending changes are specifically unknown at this time and it is anticipated that an application will be submitted and acted upon before the revisions to the zoning code are drafted and adopted this coming fall. That said, planning staff has suggested a possible new Institutional Zoning District classification that would apply to large campus-type land use areas so labeled on the comprehensive plan, and might apply to some of the smaller church and social club parcels also currently labeled as Institutional on the Comp Plan. This designation might be considered a spot-zoning overlay responding to-- and intended to better regulate-- existing campus-type use pattems for school, civic, social, and possibly religious uses. In being applied to churches, this would mark a significant change in the zoning model where church use has traditionally be broadcast around the city within smaller, neighborhood-centered churches located within the residential areas they serve. The growing contemporary model of regional scale churches based on size and differentiating aspects, such as the ethnic focus of T4C, seems to be more appropriate to the Regional Business (RB) areas shown in the Comprehensive Plan with proximity and identity to major arterial access, rather than funneling this traffic into and through residential neighborhoods. I[ also should be noted that current land use planning relating to churches must be directed by federal regulation respecting the Religious Land Use & Institutionalized Person Act (RLUIPA)) tAdditional Rcyuircd Information. Page 7 of7