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13,502 square feet of usable seating area in the proposed parish center (225 spaces) if both buildings were to be used simultaneously to full capacity (364 spaces total). However, since the church is not proposing to schedule uses in the sanctuary and parish center buildings at the same time, the Municipal Code parking requirement would be based on the higher individual parking requirement, which in this case is the parish center (225 spaces). Therefore, the church's 306 proposed parking spaces would comply with the Municipal Code parking requirements for this phase of the master plan. Parkin!! Requirements for St. Elizabeth Seton Church Use: . Sanctuary (with 835 fixed seats) - 139 spaces required 95 s aces' . Rheem Drive (existing) - 10 spaces 28 s aces 439 s aces I Parking requirement based on the greater parking requirement since uses in the sanctuary and parish center would not occur simultaneously. 2 Based on the staff-recommendation to eliminate the 5 parallel parking spaces that are proposed in the western parking lot. 'Based on staff parking space count conducted on November 2, 2006. Staff notes that the Municipal Code's one parking space per six fixed seat requirement is an optimistic assumption and believes that in reality most parishioners' vehicles would contain fewer than six people. The church's parking counts that were conducted for seven Sunday services in April and October 2006 (see attachment #1) support this theory as there were up to 413 vehicles present for the services, exceeding the church's 311 on-site parking spaces. Parking surveys conducted by the church indicate that overflow parking is occurring in the adjacent Pleasanton Village, Belvedere, and Gatewood Apartments neighborhoods and in the adjacent Santa Rita Office Center parking lot to the west at 4431-4495 Stoneridge Drive. The church also indicated that some church members park in non-designated parking areas on site. Since staff believes that the church should provide adequate parking for its activities without impacting the surrounding neighbors and businesses with overflow parking and without needing PDR-561/PV-158 Planning Commission Page 16