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1 green space. He suggested removing planting islands in the parking area 2 and thereby creating 18 parking spaces. 3 4 He asked the Church to consider parking even further away, car pool, 5 vans to extend the variance to add zero spaces. (The Church did consider 6 this and decided to add 27 spaces). 7 8 Heather Hawkens, 1144 W. Ryan, stated the park and open space should 9 remain; it is a valuable neighborhood asset. 10 11 Chair Klausing clarified issues as to whether the Planning Commission 12 recommends that the Church deviate from the standards. 13 14 Member Mulder stated that an interesting part of this issue is that the 15 petitioner (the Church) could install all 50+ spaces with only a building 16 permit. 17 18 Motion: Member Mulder moved, Member Rhody seconded, to 19 recommend approval of the variance, based on findings as included in the 20 staff report dated May 10, 2000, as follows: 21 22 1) From a photographic and on-site review of the parking areas, it is clear that 23 the Church already has a large paved area within a residential neighborhood. In 24 the past the Council has found that such large pavement users can deteriorate 25 neighborhood aesthetics, air quality, landscaping and green space, and 26 neighborhood sense of place. . The Council has asked the staff to work with 27 such large one-time "surge" parking needs to prepare "proof of parking" plans 28 and find other existing parking spaces to supplement their needs. The 29 additional on-site parking could be a community physical hardship since the 30 hard surface would take away green space and increase surface water 31 management issues in the area. 32 33 2) As an alternative to the variance request, the Church could pave a portion of 34 the green space in the southeast comer of the parking lot adjacent to Bruce 35 Russell Park or near the tennis court to the north and east of the Church. This 36 is the "pave paradise...put in a parking lot" solution. 37 38 3) Impervious Surfaces. Churches are known to be one of the most inefficient 39 land uses in terms of "at capacity" hours of use per week. The parking 40 demand peaks for 4 to 5 hours on Sundays only, less than 3 % of the entire 41 week, and less than 25% of the weekend daylight hours. In addition, staff 42 estimates that 25 % of a typical residential neighborhood is now impervious 43 surfaces; 50% to 80% of commercial sites are impervious; and nearly 10% of 44 all land within the community is impervious road surfaces. Recently the City 45 adopted Best Management Practices for surface water quality and storage. One