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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Date: OS/22/00 Item No: I-I Department Approval: Agenda Section: LAND USE Item Description: Roseville Lutheran Church, 1215 Roselawn, Roseville, is requesting a variance for a off street parking variance. (PF3209) 1.0 Requested Action 1.1 The Roseville Lutheran Church has submitted an application for a variance from the zoning code to allow completion of the 300 seat area in their worship center balcony. In order to meet City Codes, the Church must also add 85 off-street parking spaces to handle the expected additional attendees at Sunday services. This would require expansion of the existing parking lot to the edge of the adjacent park property or in other locations at the church site at 1215 Roselawn A venue. The Church is requesting the variance to retain green space rather than pave the remaining green space on this portion of the site. The Church held a neighborhood meeting on this topic on May 1,2000. 2.0 Background Minnesota Statutes 462.357 provide variance requirements which the City has adopted in City Code Section 1013.02. The applicant is required to provide the burden of proof that a variance from the existing code is necessary. The applicant must demonstrate a unique physical hardship on the site; that no practical alternative exists to resolve the issue; that the variance request is not based solely on economic reasons; and that the need for the variance was not created by the applicant. The Church is located in an R-l Single Family residential zone and as such is a permitted use, with a parking ratio of 1 space to 3.5 seats at capacity in accordance with Section 1005.01D2p of the City Code. The Church currently has a 10,000 s.f. worship center (1996) and proposes to complete the seating within 3,700 s.f. along the north and west sides of the balcony. There are currently 194 spaces in the south lot and 82 spaces in the north lot for a total of276 spaces. The site plan also has enough space to pave an area for all new, required 52 spaces (actually proposed 56) in a double row directly adjacent to the west property line of Bruce Russell Park. (There remains some question whether the letter and intent of the original agreement and approved site plan allows further movement eastward toward the property line of Bruce Russell Park.) This parking expansion would add approximately 16,000 s.f. of new pavement to the area. Since the original application, the Church has amended its request to a variance for 25 spaces, the number of spaces proposed not to be built. Under this proposal, the Church would have a total of 303 spaces. PF32909- RCA (05-22-00) - Page 1 of 3