TO: Chair and Planning Commission
FROM: Jeremy Knapp, Community Development Director
Paul Michaud, Planning Manager
George Burton, Senior Planner
DATE: March 3, 2020
DEPARTMENT: Community Development
Staff Contact George Burton, Senior Planner, 480-348-3525
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Discussion of a Minor Special Use Permit Amendment
St. Barnabas Church (SUP-20-02). 6715 N. Mockingbird Lane.
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REQUEST
St. Barnabas Church is requesting a Minor Special Use Permit (SUP) amendment to renovate and replace the parking lot/parking area, update the site drainage and retention, replace and add new signage, re-landscape the campus, improve the playground area with a new solar panel shade structure and fencing, add new trellis shade canopies with solar panels, replace and add new site lighting, and replace a covered parking canopy with a solar panel parking canopy.
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BACKGROUND
History
Saint Barnabas Church was established in 1953. The Town annexed the Church in 1964. The original Special Use Permit was issued in 1974 and has been amended several times. The most recent amendment was approved in 2012 for modifications to the exterior lighting and the replacement of an existing ramada with a new ramada.
Parking Lot Renovation
The existing parking lot will be repaved with new asphalt and restriped in order to improve circulation and safety. The improvement will increase the parking count from 306 total parking spaces (with 294 regular spaces and 12 accessible spaces) to a total of 328 parking spaces (with 307 regular spaces and 21 accessible). Also, per the last Major SUP Amendment in 2003, the parking study identified a minimum of 203 required parking spaces. The existing and proposed parking count exceed the minimum requirement.
The applicant proposes to keep the size of the parking spaces the same size as approved in the last Major SUP amendment. The size for the 60-degree parking spaces is 23' long x 8'6" wide (1...
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