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i <br />Planning Commissioner Comments <br />Jan Berg: <br />- Concern about potential for expansion within and outside of site... <br />- Parking is a primar> safety issue - any expectation that a use will require its users to walk across <br />a Count) Road, especially where there is no controlled intersection, is not good... <br />- Doesn ’t want adjacent B-4 properties to become parking lots for the church use... <br />- Would prefer that the highly underutilized area zoned B-4 be used for townhomes. which would <br />be more compatible with existing adjacent single-family rcsidential development... <br />Dan Kluth: <br />- Feels that PC’s consensus at May meeting would have been to table if quorum had a*mained. to <br />give PC and staff a chance to further explore the potential impacts of a chuah use in B-4; i.c. <br />compare the standards for churchc*s in R- Districts w ith those of the B-4. <br />- .Also concerned .ibout safely and the future impacts on the B-4 District if chuahes arc allowed. <br />Bill Stoddard: <br />- B-4 is intended primarily for Office/Professional uses that operate 9-5 weekdays and are shut down <br />on evenings and weekends, and as such is a good fit adjacent to asidenlial .'ones. The chuah use <br />is just the opposite, operating on evenings and weekends.. .perhaps some of the other conditional uses <br />allowed in the B-4 District don ’t make sense except in a setting where there is much more land <br />available. <br />- Parking is an issue of concern, along with the potential for expansion to adjoining properties... <br />• Should the City allow tax-exempt entities in the high-value B-4 district? Would it be better to <br />expc*ct that churches inhabit lower-value residential real estate that will not have such a tax loss <br />impact? <br />Jeanne Mabusth: <br />• The Church use is inconsistent with the B-4 district <br />• The performance standards of B-4 do not match the requirements we place on churches in <br />residential zones <br />- This is one more example of the City being askc*d to respond to individual requests to tweak the <br />Navarre area zoning without having completed a comprehensive land use study of the area... <br />- Adding churches to B-4 probably should be the subject of a Comprehensive Plan Amendment; it <br />could be construed that the request is simply a method of gaining a zoning v ariance, which is not <br />allowed... <br />- Considering the nature and and location of our B-4 District, allowing a church use there has the <br />potential to deter the comprehensive future development of the B-4... <br />Sandra Smith: <br />Liz Hawti: <br />Dale Lindquist: <br />(No commenu receiv ed as of press time) <br />m