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� --. proposed church use, as is also pointed out in the applicant's narrative; because these uses seem to be inappropriate in Regional Business, Office, and Industrial areas of the city, they will have to be reevaluated in during the current zoning update process to ensure that the new zoning code contributes to achieving the goals of Roseville's Comprehensive Plan. 6.5 Another important fact to take into consideration is that contemporary churches can be dramatically different from conventional churches or religious institutions that are located within residential neighborhoods, among the homes of their members, and that have a few worship services over the weekend in addition to weekly educational activities and occasional community events. This difference between traditional and contemporary churches would seem to be due in no small part to the fact that residential areas are not so culturally, ethnically, or religiously homogeneous as they once were; people today choose where they'll live for different reasons than in the past and, consequently, faith communities have become more geographically dispersed. In addition to the simple fact that modern religious institutions have greater traffic impacts than they used to because few members live close enough to walk to services or other events, some contemporary churches offer their congregations many more religious, cultural, educational, and community activities than their traditional counterparts. 6.6 The purpose of the preceding paragraph is to help explain the fact that a church, like the one T4C is proposing, might no longer be appropriate in the middle of a residential neighborhood. Whereas church properties have traditionally been regulated by the same single-family zoning requirements and have fallen into the same residential category of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan as their residential neighbors, Roseville's current Comprehensive Plan guides church properties for Institutional land uses. Moreover, Planning Division staff expects to create a new institutional zoning district during the current zoning update process to better regulate churches, temples, schools, and so on because the conventional R-1 Single-Family District has not adequately addressed the unique requirements of institutional uses. 6.7 Through reviewing the Comprehensive Plan's descriptions of land use designations, Planning Division staff has concluded that a church or other religious or secular institution is appropriate on land guided specifically for Institutional uses and within the Community Mixed Use area (which also explicitly allows institutional uses, among others). Areas guided for high-density residential uses might also be appropriate locations for institutional land uses because such areas tend to be located near major roadways instead of within single-family neighborhoods, but the current description of the High- Density Residential land use category doesn't address institutional uses and, if such a proposal were submitted, the City would have to carefully weigh it against Roseville's goals of increased residential density and choice of housing types. %.O PUBLIC HEARING 7.1 The duly-noticed public hearing for this application was held by the Planning Commission on March 3, 2010; aside from representatives of the T4C congregation, no members of the public commented during the public hearing and no communications have been received by staff pertaining to the application. After discussing the application and reviewing the analysis provided by staff, the Planning Commission voted PF10-006 RCA 032210 (2).doc Page 3 of 5