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December 17, 2019 City of Santa Ana Mayor, City Council, and City Manager On October 6, 2008, the City Council and as recommended on August 25, 2008 by the Planning Commission, the City required for the church expansion as a condition of approval of the conditional use permit to meet its zoning requirements for parking. Therefore, Templo Calvario Church was required to enter into an agreement with the Orange County Transportation Authority for 312 spaces and Santa Ana Unified School District for 115 spaces to use their parking lots to meet the shortage of required parking spaces To address the parking shortage, the traffic engineering firm of Austin- Foust Associates was retained to prepare a parking analysis for the project. Austin- Foust conducted parking counts on four consecutive Sunday mornings in May and June 2008 to attain an accurate parking demand for the church. Based on their analysis of actual peak parking demand, they determined that, based on a passenger per vehicle rate of 3. 41, a total of 587 parking spaces would be required for the church expansion project. Even with the additional 427 parking spaces, Templo Calvario Church was still short of 160 needed parking spaces, thus the request for the parking variance. In the past, Templo Calvario Church and the Vista Heritage Charter School parked approximately an additional 312 vehicles in the Pacific Car right of way which is managed by the Orange County Transportation Authority. This is no longer an option due to OC Street Car construction. Due to the expiration of their parking lease in early 2019, the parking lot on the property has become more crowded to the point that it is unsafe. This is in violation of the CC&R's that the City approved in 2008 as a condition to expand Templo Calvario's church. Contrary to the City's position, this condition cannot be waived because of Templo Calvario's expansion of the church in terms of use has never changed. Vista Heritage Charter School has made an existing parking shortage even more severe. Furthermore, as an additional condition to expand the church in 2008, it also required that Templo Calvario Church enter into an agreement to use Santa Ana Unified School District parking facilities at its warehouse located at the intersection of Fairview and Civic Center. This made available an additional 115 parking spaces. There is not an existing agreement between Templo Calvario and SAUSD to use these additional parking spaces. In fact, this option is no longer available due to expanded operational warehouse uses. This is also in violation of the CC&R's that the City approved in 2008 as a condition to expand Templo Calvario's church. Contrary to the City's position, this condition cannot be waived because of Templo Calvario's expansion of the church in terms of use has never changed. Vista Heritage Charter School has made an existing parking shortage even more severe. Bottom line, Templo Calvario has approximately 427 less parking spaces today than what was required as part of the CC&R's in 2008 as part of the expansion of the church. This has been compounded when Vista Heritage Charter School was approved by the City Council in 2016. The school expansion makes parking even more severe. Vista Heritage Charter School as part of its expansion anticipates an increase from the existing use of 20 parking spaces to 62-67 parking spaces after the expansion. An increase of 42 to 47 parking spaces. Where are they going to park if there is not sufficient parking spaces today let alone with the expansion? At the May 7, 2019 council meeting, City staff acknowledged that the additional needed parking between 42 to 47 spaces only included teachers not additional staff support.