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Attachment C T4C currentfy services 50Q churchgoers once or twice each week and has plans to ha�e the ability to serve up to 1,000 churchgoers in three dis�inct lang.uage assemE�fies at a single site. This aflaws couples with diverse language skills and their English-speaking children to share #he assembly, teaching and sotial times tagether in one building. As tY�e IargesC Chinese-oriented c�urch asserr�bly in the metro area with o�er 50 years of history and strong ties in comm�nity ser�+ice in the Roseville community arEa, T4C wfluld be a significant Cuftural Institution with spaces for Meeting Hall, Business and Counseling Offices, Music & Dance instruction and performance, for7raditional dining in line with the Restaurant I classification-- all currentEy permitted uses in the 8-3 District. Minimum Requirements for the Business Zonin� pistricts are shown in 5ection 1005.01. They are identical between the 8-3 zoning classification and the B-� that allows the church use. How does the use of the 2755 Lan Lake Road site b 74C fit with future lnstitu#ional Zoning Glassificatian_pos�ibly �o he proposed in the pendin� zoni�� chanp� in the fall of 2.01�? The pending changes are specificalfy unknown at this #ime and it is anticipated tF�at an applica#ion will be submitted and acted upon before the revisions to the zoning code are drafted and adopted this coming fall. That said, �lanning sfaff has suggested a possibie new Institutional Zoning District classificatian that would apply ta large campus-type land use area5 so labeled on the comprehensive plan, and might apply to some of the smaller church and socia! ciub parcels also currently labeled as Institutional on the Comp Plan. This designation might be considered a spot-zoning o�erlay responding to-- and intenc�ed t� better regulate-- existrng campus-type use patterns for school, civic, sociaf, and possibly religious uses. In being appEied to churches, this would. mark a significant c�ange in the zoning modef where church use has tracfitionally be braadcast around the city within smaller, neighborhood-centered churches iocated wit�in the residential areas they servQ. The growing cantemporary model of regional scaEe churches based on size and differentiating aspects, such as the ethnic focus of 1"4C, seems to be more appropriate to Che Regional Business (RB) areas shawn in the Comprehensive Plan with proximity and identity to rnajor arterial acces5, rather than funneling this traffic into and through residential neighborhoods. It also should be nated that current land use planning relating to churches must be directed by federal regulation respecting the Reiigious Land Use & Insti�utionalized Person Act (RLUIPA}] f\c�di�ional Requircd Infornlation, �'a��e 7 ot�7