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ATTACHMENT._ "5 Be (70. page 12 Detailed Background Chronology Woodside Hills Christian Academy Project 2323/2325 Euclid Avenue Woodside Hills Christian Academy (WHCA) first submitted their application for a Use Permit on August 7, 2007. At that time, Planning staff notified the applicant that school operations could not commence until the City completes its Use Permit review process. However, on August 29, 2007, WHCA opened the kindergarten through twelfth grade school with a student body of approximately 1.01 students without benefit of the required permits. After notifying the church, and consistent with current practice, the City began the code enforcement process which included site inspections and a work program to ensure that all necessary health and safety concerns were adequately addressed. Based on the aforementioned inspections a number of immediate actions were taken by the City, the most significant of which required the church to close the secondary school building because of significant Building and Fire code violations. Over the following months, the City worked with both the applicant and a number of concerned neighbors to develop a series of interim measures to minimize adverse impacts to the both student body as well as the immediate neighborhood (Attachment 1). As part of the application review process, staff evaluated prior uses of the property. According to City records, the church property has a longstanding history of operating a child care facility and primary school on-site. Previous tenants included "Montessori Community School", "Rockin' Kids Care" (an after-school program for kindergarten through fifth grade students), "Sequoia Pre-School" and" the "Montessori Assistance to Infancy Program". Given that prior tenants have been allowed to operate both child care facility and primary school programs, the City allowed, as an interim measure, up to 65 students to remain on the property while processing a Use Permit application. In parallel, a separate temporary Use Permit was processed for the relocation of. the secondary school (seventh through twelfth grade) student population to a nearby church property for the remainder of the 2007-2008 school year in an effort to alleviate potential traffic, noise and safety concerns on the subject property until a permanent Use Permit could be acted upon. Ongoing monitoring and evaluation of iDterim measures were also conducted to ensure that these steps would effectively minimize impacts to the students and the neighborhood. The review process for the Euclid property also included two City-facilitated community meetings which were tailored to gather input on the proposed project (one meeting in November 2007 and the other in August 2008). Major topics for discussion included: . Increased traffic onto McGarvey Street and adjacent residential streets; . Noise concerns from the church site; . Student pick-up/drop-off and site circulation; . Parking, including church buses adjacent to residential properties; and . General land use compatibility.