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<br />July 13, 2009
<br />
<br />SUBJECT
<br />Appeal of the Zoning Administrator's Approval of a Use Permit for Woodside Hills
<br />Christian Academy at 2323/2325 Euclid Avenue
<br />
<br />RECOMMENDATION
<br />Deny the appeal, thereby upholding the Zoning Administrator1s decision to approve the
<br />Use Permit to allow operation of a kindergarten through twelfth grade private school and
<br />child care facility at an existing church with a total on-site capacity of 80 children.
<br />
<br />BACKGROUND
<br />Woodside Hills Christian Academy (WHCA) first submitted their application for a Use
<br />Permit on August 7, 2007. At that time, Planning staff notified the applicant that school
<br />operations could not commence until a Use Permit could be processed. However, on
<br />August 29. 2007, WHCA opened the kindergarten through twelfth grade school with a
<br />student body of approximately 101 students without benefit of the required permits.
<br />
<br />The code enforcement process immediately followed and included site inspections and
<br />a work program to ensure that all necessary health and safety concerns were
<br />adequately addressed, the most significant of which required WHCA to close the
<br />secondary school building because of significant Building and Fire code violations. Staff
<br />also worked with both the applicant and a number of concerned neighbors to develop a
<br />series of interim measures to provide basic safety measures for teachers and students
<br />as well as to minimize adverse impacts to the neighborhoods (Attachment 1). Two
<br />special neighborhood meetings, including one that was facilitated by Peninsula Conflict
<br />Resolution Center, were conducted to provide a community building opportunity for the
<br />neighbors and the applicant. Given that prior tenants were allowed to operate both child
<br />care facility and primary school programs on the subject property, the City allowed
<br />WHCA, as an interim measure, to maintain up to 65 kindergarten through sixth grade
<br />students on-site. The secondary school students, grades seventh through twelfth, were
<br />relocated to the Redwood Church property, located at 901/903 Madison Avenue, for the
<br />remainder of the 2007-2008 school year via the processing of a separate Temporary
<br />Use Permit in an effort to alleviate potential traffic, noise and safety concerns on the
<br />subject property until a permanent Use Permit could be acted upon.
<br />
<br />The review process for the new Use Permit included an evaluation of prior uses of the
<br />property, extensive community outreach including two. City-facilitated community
<br />meetings as well as meetings with neighbors to discuss their concerns regarding the
<br />project, and the commissioning of a traffic study. Ongoing monitoring and evaluation of
<br />interim measures were also conducted to ensure that these steps would effectively
<br />minimize impacts to the students and the neighborhood. Throughout the process staff
<br />continued to work with WHCA on defining the scope of the project and related analyses
<br />to ensure that the needs of the school as well as the concerns of the community were
<br />both addressed. The goal was to obtain a comprehensive and complete Use Permit
<br />application (current uses and expanded needs) in order to move the project forward to a
<br />public hearing. On January 15, 2009, a public hearing was scheduled for the review of
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