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Vve..1o : /ItBU?l.> Department Approval: r) . })i [L/Illr --- F-2 Manager ~.....-..'..L'-"'''''''-~ Agenda Section: Item Description: Hearing Roseville Lutheran Church application for a variance from the R- 1 zoning district 30 foot height specification at 1215 RoselaW11 Avenue. (Request for continuation to November 29, 1994 - pending Planning Commission recommendation). B~ckground : 1. In 1993, the City of RoseviUe and Roseville Lutheran Church agreed to exchange property at County Road B and Lexington Avenue for a portion of Bruce Russell Park, directly east of Roseville Lutheran Church property. The Church's intent in this agreement, was to provide additional area for expansion on their CUITent site. Rosevil1e Lutheran Church parcel now totals 5.75 acres. It is zoned R-I Single Family and churches are pennitted uses in that zoning district. The church is now preparing plans for Phase I of the expansion of their campus. 2. Section 7.260 oftbe Roseville Zoning Code calls out churches as permitted uses in an R-l Single Family zoning district. Section 7.290 of the code indicates that no structure or building shall exceed 30 feet in height. 3. The topography of this site has a 10 foot drop in elevation between the main level of the existing church and the level of the cunent baseball field. The design of the proposed worship center seeks to take advantage of this topography through a "wa1k-out" design for the facility. The proposed worship center roof will be approximately 5 feet taller than the roof of the current sanctuary, which has been on the site since 1969. Prom the west and north, the elevations of the new worship center are within the height specification for R-1 property. From the lower level, however, the worship center will be 10 feet over the 30 foot maximum height specification. The project designer has