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1 2 3 4 6 7 g 9 lo ii 12 13 14 1S 16 17 green space. He suggested removing planting islands in the parking area and thereby creating 18 parking spaces. He asked the Church to consider parking even further away, car pool, vans to e�end the variance to add zero spaces. (The Church did consider this and decided to add 27 spaces). Heather Hawkens, 1144 W. Ryan, sta}=� the park and open space should remain; it is a valuable neighborhood asset. Chair Klausing clarified issues as to whether the Planning Commission recommends that the Church deviate from the standards. Member Mulder stated that an interesting part of this issue is that the petitioner (the Church) could install all 50+ spaces with only a building permit. 1 s Motion: Member Mulder moved, Member Rhody seconded, to 19 recommend approval of the variance, based on findings as included in the 2o staff report dated May 10, 2000, as follows: 21 22 23 24 25 26 2� 2s 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 1) From a photographic and on-site review of the parking areas, it is clear that the Church already has a large paved area within a residential neighborhood. In the past the Council has found that such large pavement users can deteriorate neighborhood aesthetics, air quality, landscaping and green space, and neighborhood sense of place. . The Council has asked the staff to work with such large one-time "surge" parking needs to prepare "proof of parking" plans and find other e�sting parking spaces to supplement their needs. The additional on-site parking could be a community physical hardship since the hard surface would take away green space and increase surface water management issues in the area. 2) As an alternative to the variance request, the Church could pave a portion of the green space in the southeast corner of the parking lot adjacent to Bruce Russell Park or �ar the tennis court to the north and east of die Church. This is the "pave paradise...put in a parking lot" solution. 3� Impervious Surfaces. Chu� are known to he one of the most inefficient land uses in tenns of "at capacity" hours of use per week. The parking demand peaks for 4 to 5�ours �n Sun�days only, less than 3 96 of tl� entire week, and less than 25% of the weekend daylight hours. In addition, staff estimates d�at 25 96 of a typical residential neig6borhood is now impervious surfacES; 50% to 80% of commercial sites are impervious; and nearly 10% of ail land within the community is impervious road surfaces. Recently the City adopted Best Management Practices for surface water quality and storage. One