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reduce the size of the building or construct a two-story structure. Furthermore, demolishing the existing driveway and installing a new driveway at Stoneridge Drive would be undesirable from a traffic flow perspective as parishioners wanting to travel westbound on Stoneridge Drive from the church would first have to turn right (eastbound) onto Stoneridge Drive and then make a U- turn in front of the church's existing Stoneridge Drive driveway where there is a median break. This would also lead to internal queuing and congestion issues at the church's eastern parking lot as parishioners wanting to turn left from the existing Stoneridge Drive driveway would have to compete with the eastbound U-turn traffic from the church's western Stoneridge Drive driveway. Based on the above discussion, staff feels that the existing Rheem Drive driveway remain as currently constructed. Parking Users of the proposed parish center building would utilize the existing parking lots, which currently have a total of 311 spaces. The proposal would eliminate 20 spaces to create a drop- off area in front (east side) of the parish center and to create a pedestrian pathway through the existing parking lots. The applicants have proposed to replace all 20 of these spaces by restriping some of the existing standard-sized spaces to compact-sized spaces and by creating seven new parking spaces within or adjacent to the existing parking lots, resulting in a total of 311 parking spaces. Staff notes that the five proposed parallel spaces along the northern end of the western parking lot would not meet the Municipal Code and fire truck access requirements as they would reduce the width of the adjacent drive aisle from 26 feet 9 inches to 18 feet 3 inches, where a 20-foot minimum is required, and would not provide adequate fire truck turning radii. Therefore, a condition requires that these five spaces be removed from the plan. As a result, a total of 306 on-site parking spaces would be available to accommodate the existing and proposed church- related activities. The Municipal Code requires that auditoriums, churches, private clubs and lodge halls, community centers, mortuaries, sports arenas and stadiums, theaters, auction establishments and other places of public assembly, including church, school, and college auditoriums provide one parking space for every six fixed seats or one space for each sixty square feet of floor area usable for seating if seats are not fixed in all facilities in which simultaneous use is probable as determined by the Zoning Administrator. In this instance, one space for each six seats would apply to the 835-fixed-seat sanctuary and one space for each 60 square feet of floor area would apply to the 13,502 square feet of usable seating area in the proposed parish center without fixed seating. As shown in the table on the following page, the church's 306 parking spaces would not meet the Municipal Code parking requirements for the 835-fixed-seat sanctuary (139 spaces) and the Planning Commission PDR-561/PV-158 Page 15