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I I I I I ,I I I' 'I I I I I I I I. ,I I I ROSEVlLLE LUTHERAN CHURCH Summary of Site Plan Alternatives Roseville Lutheran Church ran out of space to continue its ministry seven years ago. In 1987 RLC hired a church planning and architectural company to evaluate alternatives for providing the physical space and tools RLC's growth demanded. Because RLC had no land for more buildings or parking, however, expansion proved impossible. Thus, RLC worked from 1987 through 1983 to evaluate options and reach a resolution to its land shortage crisis. This section summarizes the major illustrations RLC's consultants created as aids to investigating the proper location, orientation and height for the Proposed Worship Center. The illustrations project a completed campus, although RLC has always anticipated construction over multiple phases and several decades. The choices RLC made were communal assessments made by dozens of individuals. Only the primary factors influencing the outcomes are summarized here. Selecting the location of the Worship Center on the property required RLC to optimize five factors: 1. Balancing the distance and visual impact among Fernwood Avenue, Ryan Avenue and Roselawn Avenue; 2. Maximizing the efficiency of future off-street parking, to leave the most Green Space adjacent to Bruce Russell Park, and to defer relocation of the Park tennis courts for shared use parking; 3. Providing efficient pedestrian traffic flow within the existing facilities, and providing grounds and connections for future additional facilities; 4. Meeting the requirements set forth in RLC's Space Program, which forecast future meeting, administration, education and worship space and parking requirements, including keeping 100% of the space in the existing facilities useable at least into the next decade; 5. Cost effectiveness. CONCLUSION Two independent architectural firms have recommended the proposed Worship Center location. Two separate RLC planning committees, and literally hundreds of Roseville residents, both RLC members and neighbors, have also reviewed the location question. The City's professional staff has reviewed the location of the Worship Center on the site throughout numerous reviews. Of the possibilities that do not require RLC to tear down its existing structures, the nearly unanimous preference for the Worship Center location has been the center of RLC's site. That preference is reflected in the proposed site plan. -9-