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residences during Sunday services." The church has agreed to install the signs. A neighbor had inquired about implementing residential parking permits to prevent church patrons from parking within the Pleasanton Village neighborhood. Staff feels that measures should be taken to ensure parking would not overflow onto adjacent residential properties rather than rely on permit parking, which can be inconvenient for the residents and their guests. As noted above, staff feels that on- and off-site parking would be sufficient to accommodate the church's peak parking demand during Sunday services. Furthermore, in order to reduce the attractiveness of off-site parking along the adjacent residential streets to the south, staff is recommending that the church install a five to six-foot tall fence in its southern planter area near the "elbow" of the Bowen Street and Alexander Way intersection to prevent people from using this "short cut" to reach the church. Staff believes that a fence would be more effective than the church's proposal to install landscaping to block the short cut. The church has agreed to install the fence. At the neighborhood meeting, a neighbor questioned if parking could be prohibited along the Rheem Drive frontage ofthe church site. Staff believes that on-street parking should remain permitted along the church's Rheem Drive frontage in order to reduce the chances of parishioners being "forced" to park further south on Rheem Drive in front of the residences. With the additional on-street and off-site parking discussed above, staff believes that there would be adequate parking to meet demand for this phase of the church's development. In addition, because the site is governed by a conditional use permit, the applicants can be required to mitigate future parking problems, should they arise. However, if the Commission feels that the church should install additional parking on their site rather than rely on a parking agreement for off-site parking and/or on-street parking in front of the church site, then the Commission should modify the staff-recommended conditions of approval accordingly. With regard to buildout of the master plan, two future parking lots, totaling 113 spaces, are shown at the eastern side of the site, matching the parking shown in the prior 1998 master plan, resulting in a total of 419 spaces at buildout (this figure includes the staff recommendation to eliminate the five parallel parking spaces). Since no details on the future elementary school and rectory have been provided with the current application, the exact number of parking spaces that would be required for buildout would be determined when the future elementary school and rectory are proposed. In addition, similar to the 1998 master plan, the revised master plan shows access to the future parking lots via the existing circular church parking lot and a new driveway off Oakland Avenue. Access to the future parking lots are not being approved as part of the subject application, but would be determined when the future elementary school and/or rectory are proposed. Staff anticipates that the Oakland Avenue driveway may receive neighborhood opposition and it may be necessary to relocate this driveway. PDR-561/PV-158 Planning Commission Page 18