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Board of lustment September 8, 1986 Page 7 Variance Requested: Variance from E.N.C. 19.40.020 Off -Street Parking, to allow the church to lease 35 off-street parking spaces to Group Healti:, which is located across Casino Road from the Church, thereby reducing the Church off-street parking from approximately 77 spaces to 42. Code requires 100. Pearl Maddy summarized the staff report (see Variance File No. 35-86) and presented viewfoils of the property. In response to a question from Everett Miller, Pearl stated that the staff had not addressed the issue of pedestrians crossing Casino Road in this report. Pastor Doug Stave of 13204 2nd Ave. S.E. spoke on behalf of Temple Baptist Church. He stated that when Group Health had originally approached the Church regarding leasing parking, the Church considered this an opportunity to be a good neighbor. Additionally, vastor Stave recommended to the governing board of the Church that any excess funds generated from the leased parking should be placed in a special fund to maintain and improve the parking in the future. The Church plans to add new parking spaces as needed, one good outcome of this request is that the Church his identified 20 additional parking spaces in their upper parking lot which they didn't realize were available due to the fact that the area is not striped. In response to a question from Ross Hoagland, Pastor Stave indicated that the Church is not leasing parking space to anyone else. Again, in response to a question from Ross Hoagland,Pastor Stave stated that he was not aware of the fact that, by leasing a portion of *.heir property for income, the Church's property would go on the tax roles. Tf that wives to be correct, it was his estimation that Us revenue generated from leasing would probably amoun� to only about one -tenth of the taxes that would be generated, and the Church would have to tyke this into consideration. In response to a questicn frrnn Everett Miller, Pastor Stave said that the length of the lease would be mutuaiay perpetual and that either party could cancel with a six-month notification. Finally, Pastor Stave reported that, if he need should arise for more parking, the Church would be able to add another 40 spaces in the permanent easement from Kindercare abutting their property on the west side. Philip Giuntoli spoke on behalf of Group Health Cooperative, 300 Elliott Ave. W., Seattle, Wa 98119. Mr. Giuntoli serves as Manager of the Capital Project Development for Group Health. He stated that Group Health had previously explored with the Public Works and Planning Department staff what the City would raquire in terms of a pedestrian crossing if Group Health were to enter into this kind of an arrangement with the Church, and the recommendation was that they not do anything with respect to a crosswalk. In response to an observation by Everett Miller that the Board needs to be cnncarned about public safety, Pearl Maddy stated that the City's traffic engineer feels that crosswalk- are more dangerous than not having a crosswalk, that there are more pedestria.. accidents in crosswalks than in other places; therefore, he did not recommend the construction of a crosswalk area. Er-rett Miller suggested a stop sign or overpass of some kind might be appropriate. In any case, he felt the City was not addressing the question of public safety very effectively and that some provision must be made foi this. If no crossing area is provided then the users of the parking lot would have to go to the nearest traffic light which is several blocks away because there is no intersection nearby. People in effect would be forced to cross the street illegally.