Item 37 - Appeal No. 2023-07 Denial of CUP No. 2023-18 Anchor Stone Christian Church: 2938 S. Daimler Street

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Anchor Stone Christian Church: 2938 S. Daimler Street November 21, 2023 Page 9 General Plan Goal or Policy Analysis similarly -natured industrial/production-oriented land uses and does not allow community assembly such as churches. This land use principle of preventing inconsistent land uses from locating in the same areas is currently codified in the City's Light and Heavy industrial (M1 and M2) zoning districts. The Flex-3 General Plan use designation points to the M1 land uses in Table LU-A-2 as examples of clean industrial uses commensurate with the General Plan land use designation, reaffirming this principle of not locating sensitive receptors such as community assembly uses within or in proximity to industrial areas of the City. LU-4.1, which supports complete The site is surrounded by professional and industrial uses, and neighborhoods by encouraging a mix the nearest residential community is approximately 0.3 miles of complimentary uses, community away. As such, the introduction of a religious institution in this site services, and people places within a would not be compatible with the surrounded uses and will not walkable area. encourage development of place -making within a walkable area. Moreover, as detailed above, the purpose of the land use plan of the Land Use Element is to prevent irreconcilable land use conflicts from occurring in the future between sensitive receptors and surrounding industrial uses. However, irreconcilable land use conflicts between a sensitive receptor such as the proposed church and its school operations will be generated if the subject application were approved with future industrial uses taking place in the land use designation of the Focus Area. EP-1.9, which seeks to avoid potential Establishing uses such as community assembly, coupled with land use conflicts by prohibiting the youth services and Bible school, would introduce sensitive location of sensitive receptors and receptors into an area that is mostly comprised of industrial and noxious land uses in close proximity. office uses and that is intended to transition to industrial uses over time, through implementation of the General Plan. The purpose of the land use plan in the Land Use Element is to prevent these land use conflicts from taking place through goals, policies, and zoning practices designed to create "a physical environment that encourages healthy lifestyles, a planning process that ensures that health impacts are considered, and a community that actively pursues policies and practices that improve the health of our residents," as listed as an adopted Core Value of the Land Use Element. Approval of the subject application would be contrary to the Land Use Element and this adopted Core Value. EP-2.3, which encourages the As promulgated by the adopted General Plan Land Use Element, development of mutually beneficial introducing community assembly does not support the and complementary business clusters development of mutually beneficial and complementary business within the community. clusters at the subject site. To the contrary, it will create irreconcilable conflicts by introducing a sensitive receptor within an area that is presently and continuing to transition to industrial uses. Approval of the requested application would lead to present and future land use conflicts stemming from noise, traffic, vibrations, queuing, solid waste generation, and circulation.