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hour traffic problems in the area. Traffic for the buildout of the church's 1998 master plan was included in the City's traffic model. Also, the proposed master plan modification would reduce the total square footage of the master plan by 3,524-square feet. Therefore, no traffic report is required for the proposed parish center building. The church site currently has one improved access drive off Stoneridge Drive and one off Rheem Drive leading to the two parking areas. The applicants would not modify the existing driveways. The western parking lot currently has a gate located at both of its entries. A condition of approval from the 1998 master plan required that these gates be installed and that the parking lot be gated when it was not needed for church parking. With the current application, staff believes that this requirement should remain in order to prevent people from parking in the lot late at night and potentially disturbing the neighbors. Staff has included a condition of approval to address this item. As previously noted, residents in the Pleasant Village neighborhood had requested that the City install centerline striping along Rheem Drive between Stoneridge Drive and Kamp Drive in order to define/narrow the travel lanes and reduce speeds and to install centerline striping along the "S-Shaped" turn at Rheem Drive/Bowen Street/Alexander Way/Krause Street in order to deter vehicles from "cutting the corners." The City Traffic Engineer believed the striping to be an acceptable tool to try to reduce speeds on Rheem Drive and to deter traffic from making dangerous turns, and authorized the striping projects. The striping, consisting of two centerlines with reflectors, will be installed by the City either this winter, weather permitting, or next spring, well before the parish center building would be completed. In addition, Pleasant Village residents also indicated that on Sundays after the church services let out, the northbound left turn lane at the Rheem Drive and Stoneridge Drive intersection can get congested as the signal only lets a few cars turn left from Rheem Drive to Stoneridge Drive. The City Traffic Engineer has indicated that the signal timing will be changed on Sundays to allow more vehicles to make this left-turn movement. Some neighbors have requested that the church's existing Rheem Drive driveway be relocated to the north along Rheem Drive or along Stoneridge Drive. As originally proposed by the church with the 1998 master plan, the driveway to the proposed western parking lot was located at the southern boundary of the church property at the "elbow" where Bowen Street and Alexander Way intersect. However, due to concerns by the neighbors, it was relocated to its present location on Rheem Drive. Demolishing the existing driveway and constructing a new driveway on Rheem Drive closer to Stoneridge Drive would reduce the driveways efficiency at delivering traflic to the Rheem Drive/Stoneridge Drive intersection, possibly require that the parish center building be redesigned as two separate buildings, and possibly result in a new building being located closer to the Bowen Street residents than is currently proposed unless the church was to PDR-561/PV-158 Planning Commission Page 14