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3. The proposed use meets all requirements of the Zoning Chapter. <br />4. <br />5. <br />6. <br />7. <br />8. <br />Municipal Code permits churches as conditional uses in the RP-IB zoning district. <br />The proposed use will be entirely within the existing building and will be limited <br />to weekly services and office one staff person. On occasion there would be special <br />events that would be consistent with the church use of the propeny <br />A special use permit was granted in 1965 to permit a church. The existing building <br />was constructed in 1966. There is no conditional use permit on file for a church <br />use although the building had been used as a church in the past. A conditional use <br />permit was granted to permit the Wayzata Learning Center for 30 daycare students. <br />A conditional use permit amendment was applied for in 1995 to allow the daycare <br />to expand to 66 students. The application was not reviewed by the Planning <br />Commission or City Council and was later withdrawn. <br />The site plan provided by the applicant indicates a parking plan for 30 cars. <br />Required parking for a church is one space for each four seats based on the design <br />of the main assembly hall. The parking spaces provided would accommodate a <br />main assembly hall capacity of 120. The church seating capacity is 120. If parking <br />is required to be increased in the future the existing parking area could be realigned <br />to permit additional spaces. <br />The Council approves a variance to permit the sign to be 32 s.f. based on the <br />hardship that a 12 s.f. sign is not large enough to include the information so it can <br />be read from Highway 12. The speed limit near the sign is 55 mph and the sign <br />is located near a curve in the highway. The two factors make it difficult to see the <br />sign from a distance on Highway 12. <br />The Council finds that the conditions existing on this property are peculiar to it and <br />do not apply generally to other property in this zoning district; that granting the <br />variance would not adversely affect traffic conditions, light, air nor pose a fire <br />hazard or other danger to neighboring properties, would not merely serve as a <br />convenience to the applicant, but is necessary to alleviate a demonstrable hardship <br />Page 2 of 6