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Resolution No. 2025-35 <br /> Page 4 of 14 <br />which allows complementary institutional and community- <br />serving uses. In addition, many nearby commercial and <br />institutional buildings along Seventeenth Street were <br />constructed with reduced front setbacks, and the Project’s <br />siting preserves this established urban form by maintaining a <br />consistent street frontage rather than creating a recessed and <br />visibly incongruent development pattern. This approach <br />reinforces the General Plan’s design intent for a cohesive, <br />street-oriented corridor and ensures that the site can be <br />redeveloped in a reasonable, functional, and context-sensitive <br />manner. The variances therefore preserve a substantial <br />property right in the ability to reinvest in and redevelop the site <br />with a permitted use that reflects both prevailing development <br />patterns and adopted planning policy. <br />3. That the granting of a variance will not be materially detrimental to <br />the public welfare or injurious to surrounding property. <br />Granting the requested variances will not be materially <br />detrimental to the public welfare nor injurious to surrounding <br />properties because the Project has been designed and <br />conditioned to ensure compatibility with adjacent residential, <br />office, educational, and institutional uses. Despite reduced <br />building and landscaping setbacks, the site maintains a <br />generous separation of over 68 feet from the nearest single- <br />family residences to the north, substantially exceeding the <br />minimum required building setback. This buffer, combined <br />with new perimeter landscaping and existing block walls, <br />provides a high level of screening and protects residential <br />privacy. <br />All worship services are conducted indoors, and operating <br />hours are intentionally limited to Friday through Sunday, 7:00 <br />p.m. to 9:00 p.m., when surrounding professional office, <br />medical, and charter school uses are closed. As a result, <br />traffic, parking activity, and pedestrian movement do not <br />conflict with nearby residential or daytime commercial activity. <br />New site lighting will be fully shielded and directed away from <br />residential properties, preventing glare and ensuring <br />compliance with City lighting standards. The landscaped <br />areas, although reduced in width, include a robust palette <br />designed to soften edges and enhance the corridor’s visual <br />environment. <br />Parking and circulation impacts have been thoroughly <br />addressed. The Project provides 36 on-site parking spaces <br />and has secured 115 off-site shared parking spaces at nearby <br />commercial properties that are largely unoccupied during <br />evening and weekend service hours. A comprehensive