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PLANNING FILE 13-010 1 Request by Hand In Hand Christian (HIH) Montes sori, with property owner Church of Corpus 2 Christi, for approval of a temporary classroom structure as an INTERIM USE at 2131 Fairview 3 Avenue 4 Acting Chair Cunningham opened the Public He aring for Planning File 13-008 at 6:37 p.m. 5 Associate Planner Bryan Lloyd summarized the request of HIH for additional classroom space. Mr. Lloyd 6 advised that HIH was in the process of determini ng whether to pursue a permanent expansion of the 7 location or to find a more suitable location elsewhere; with the school anticipating that decision within two 8 (2) years. Mr. Lloyd advised that this was the reas on for the requested INTERIM USE for a period of three 9 (3) years. 10 Mr. Lloyd noted that public comment fielded by staff bef ore this meeting was detailed in Section 6 of the 11 staff report; and further noted that st aff was currently working with repr esentatives of Corpus Christi on 12 potential improvements to alleviate some of the exis ting drainage issues in the Fairview Avenue corridor 13 (Section 6.2). 14 Written comments in opposition to the proposal we re received by staff via e-mail dated Wednesday, 15 August 7, 2013, from Dolores Merrill, 1833 Eldridge Avenue W. 16 Mr. Lloyd advised that staff was recommending approval of the Interim Use for a period of three (3) years, 17 as conditioned in Section 7 of the staff report. 18 At the request of Member Stellmach, Mr. Lloyd adv ised that any additional impact on traffic through a 19 greater number of students had not been evaluated by staff. Mr. Lloyd opined that the more significant 20 traffic was on weekends with church services vers us weekday traffic. Mr. Lloyd noted that this was a 21 small school, and that it’s further expansion should not cause a great deal more traffic. 22 Member Daire, in referencing the e-mail from Dolores Merrill provided as a bench handout for tonight’s 23 meeting, questioned other concerns related to unsup ervised students roaming the area, and questioned if 24 that was during playtime. 25 Mr. Lloyd responded that he was of the opinion that it was during recess; however, since he had just 26 received the e-mail this afternoon, he had not researched that in great detail. 27 City Engineer Bloom 28 Specific to the drainage issues addressed by Ms. Merr ill, City Engineer Debra Bloom provided a history of 29 those issues for the overall area; steps taken to-date by the City to alleviate those issues; and the 30 mitigation and conditions that would be applied as part of this project. 31 Ms. Bloom advised that extreme rainfall events, most recently in July of 2012, caused the Fairview 32 system and stormwater pipes to be overwhelmed and create floodi ng under the Highway 36 underpass. 33 Following that 2012 event, Ms. Bloom advised that a study was performed to determine how best to bring 34 that flooding down and reduce the volume of water thro ugh infiltrations systems. Ms. Bloom advised that 35 this involved three (3) different projects, one of wh ich was the Skillman Pond, with an easement received 36 from the School District, with a grant received for c onstruction in 2012 of a biofiltration basin. Ms. Bloom 37 noted that this addressed the most im mediate situation with a residentia l basement collapse in July of 38 2012 due to that significant rainfall event. 39 Unfortunately, Ms. Bloom noted that this project and grant funding did not address the Corpus Christi 40 Church drainage issues. Ms. Bloom advised that it is standard procedure for staff to work with property 41 owners for their donation or granting of their pr ivate land to facilitate drainage mitigation and for 42 construction or installation of infiltration system s. Ms. Bloom advised that staff had been meeting with 43 Attachment E Page 1 of 5