Thank you.

All right, good afternoon. Welcome to the administrative zoning public hearing of November

12, 2025. My name is Amber Blisinski. I'm presiding over the hearing today as the zoning

administrator. I'd like to call the meeting to order at 4 p.m. Today's hearing will operate

in a hybrid format, staff, the applicants, and some community members are in person. However,

we'll also ask if community members joining us virtually want to speak on an item at certain

points in the meeting. When those opportunities arise, typically during the public comment portion

of each agenda item, members of the public wishing to comment may do so by clicking on the

raise hand feature in Zoom when I announce the item on which you wish to speak. Speakers will

be notified of their turn shortly before they're called on, and all speakers, virtual or in person,

will have two to three minutes to provide comments based on how many people are commenting.

If you're in person and you wish to comment on the item, please fill out a yellow speaker card.

So I'm assuming only one person in this room is speaking on the item. If you also wish to,

please fill out that yellow speaker card and give it to Roxanne so we can accurately spell your name

for the meeting minutes. So the next portion of the meeting is oral communications from the public.

This is the time set aside for people wishing to address the zoning administrator on any matter that's not on the agenda.

Speakers are limited to three minutes and state law prohibits any action on any items which are not on the agenda.

So is there anyone in the room who wants to speak on any items that are not on the agenda?

And if there's anyone online, so items not on the agenda, go ahead and raise your hand.

Nobody in the room?

Okay, nobody online.

So we'll now move to item three, which is the Zoning Administrator Public Hearing.

So item 3.1 is 165 East Dana Street with a request for a conditional use permit to allow church use to occupy an existing 7,546 square foot building for Bible study groups.

And a recommended determination that the project is categorically exempt pursuant to section 15301 of the California Environmental Quality Act guidelines.

Vincent Kwan is the project planner. Vincent, do you have a staff presentation?

Yes, I do.

Thanks.

Good afternoon, Vincent Kwan, Associate Planner, here to present the project at 165 East Dana

Street, request for a conditional use permit to allow a church view for a Bible study session.

The project is located at 165 East Dana Street, which is in the MM General Industrial Zoning

District.

Subject lot is approximately 40,500 square feet in size in the existing building for

the church lease was approximately 7,500 square feet in size that was previously used as an office.

This is highlighted in the image shown in the presentation with the box in red.

A conditional use permit is required for any church-slash-religious-type uses in the MM

zoning district and is required to demonstrate the proposed uses in close proximity to residential

uses. The proposed location at 165 East Dana Street highlighted in the red box is in close

proximity to several neighborhoods, which includes neighborhoods along Mercy Street,

West Dana, Calderon Ave on the west side of Highway 85, and also near neighborhoods along

Moorpark Way and south of Highway 237. These neighborhoods are all highlighted in red,

shown on the map above. The primary use of this space will be used for church, for Bible study

groups, which anticipates approximately 45 people on site at a time. As mentioned in the staff

report, the project is not subject to any parking requirements since it is within one half mile

of major transit station per section 363250 of the zoning code. Although the project is not

subject to any parking requirements, the project site does have a total of 46 parking spaces,

which exceeds the number of parking spaces that would typically be required for the city code.

In addition, the proposed use has limited operational hours, which are limited to Tuesday

and Friday from 7.30 to 9 p.m. and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and do not coincide with the

hours of operations of the adjacent business operating at 155 East Hamish Street.

And that concludes staff's presentation and staff is recommending the zoning administrator to

approve the conditional use permit for church use at 165 East Hamish Street. Staff and the applicant

are present to respond to any questions. Thank you. Thank you. It's now the applicant's turn to

say anything or make a presentation um so go ahead and step up to the podium and go ahead yes uh so

we don't have a presentation but we have some very brief opening dialogue um my name is xi cheng and

i'm the applicant for this cup and i represent the church in mountain view so i'd like to start by

thanking the city staff and the zoning administrator for the time and efforts you've invested in

reviewing our applications we really appreciate this opportunity to be here to present our project

um our group has been part of the mountain view community for over 25 years serving the local

families and the student communities as a member of the group by myself i'm very thankful for the

support and the care i received from the group particularly during the time when i was a student

at Stanford University. So our intent is very simple. We want to make a responsible use of

this beautiful building for the small group Bible study sessions. And I think this already presented,

we have, you know, we operate on very limited hours, and we have ample amount of parkings.

And besides that, I just want to emphasize that we understand the importance of being a good

neighbor. I believe we have been a good one for the past 25 years in our current location.

And our congregation values order, safety, and quiet operations. And we're committed to, you know,

keeping the property in a clean and excellent state. So with that, I'm happy to take a pause

and answer any questions and provide further clarifications. Okay, great. If I have questions,

I don't have any questions right now, so you can have a seat and then maybe after public comment,

I will though. Okay. All right. Great. Um, okay. So I'll now open the item up for public comments.

So people in the room who just got here, who got here a little late, uh, show them, do a raise of

hands if you're planning to speak on the item today. So only one. Okay. And then, um, people

online, if anybody online is wishing to speak on the item, if they could raise their hands,

I'll give a minute for that. So I'm only so for sure only one person in the room.

OK, so what can you read me the gentleman's name who's in the room?

Avalon Huey. OK, come up, come up to the podium and you have three minutes to to make comments.

And what I'm going to do is I'm just going to make all my comments aside a brief moment of time.

Good evening, Zoning Administrating Committee, and grace and peace to our applicant.

I am Avalon Huey.

I serve as the Minister of the Mountain View Chinese Christian Church, located at 175 East Dana Street, Mountain View.

We want to bring up some concerns related to the parking capacity, public safety, and communications.

number one there is there really are not enough spaces for our church especially on friday evenings

between 5 p.m to 10 p.m when we have fellowship meetings and saturdays and on sunday saturday

evenings and on sunday mornings between 10 a.m to 1 p.m for our sunday services we've had to enter

into written on oral reciprocal parking agreements with our neighbors to accommodate our congregants

and visitors. With the addition of another church next door, which we have coinciding hours,

we are anxious that there may not be enough parking capacity for all of us. Number two,

we are concerned that the additional vehicle traffic may cause additional risk of human

injury or mortality in the cross intersection of Dana Street and the downhill drive for the

many cars from the bridge over Highway 85 towards South Wisman. We respectfully ask city traffic

engineering and or public works to provide the data such as current traffic speed studies current

current usage from parking and collision diagrams as such for those areas to give us

increased confidence of safety especially around our our peak areas of services

from sunday of course to friday so number three finally we want to maintain community peace

and support constructive dialogue?

Should there ever be any,

this is basically a two-part question.

One is for the applicant.

Don't answer though, okay?

You're only asking me.

So if there's any disagreement between our churches

regarding any issue,

who should we contact in the local church

to pursue a solution and dialogue?

So they can talk to you after the meeting.

And number two, for our city,

and I hope this never happens, but should there be any growing tension between both our churches

regarding any specific issue and that could affect community harmony, which department or

office should we contact to resolve the matter? Mutually. Okay, thank you. All right, so that's it

in the room. No one online? No. Okay, great. All right, so I'm going to go ahead and close the

public hearing now. I will say if you as the applicant has anything they want to say in

response, you can briefly do that. But I think you can both just talk after the meeting as well.

So if you'd like to add anything based on what they said, you're welcome to come up here for

just a minute. I think we can check. Okay. Okay, great. Thanks. Okay. So I appreciate, you know,

you coming to the meeting. I appreciate the comments that we received. I think, you know,

in this particular case, they are a use that can accommodate all of their parking on site.

And then on top of that, they don't actually have a minimum parking requirement under state law. So

it's great that they can accommodate all the people who will be coming to their site on site.

And they should not impact other, you know, parking issues. Your use needs to accommodate

itself, right? And it's not on them to accommodate a different use that may have parking challenges.

um they're also you know um we're they're uh being processed under um you know a categorical

CEQA exemption so there's no additional traffic analysis that needs to be done for this use this

use is a use that is allowed through this process and you know also can accommodate their use on

site and so you know they're they're subject to the same you know traffic laws and everything

that everyone else is.

And, you know, that's just generally,

you know, presumed of businesses

that are able to accommodate those needs.

So we wouldn't go beyond

what we've done at this point.

So with that being said,

I do appreciate everybody coming.

It's valuable to hear other opinions.

And I'm sure the applicants

will probably talk to you after

and you guys can come to some agreement

on, you know,

how you can work mutually together.

So I'm going to go ahead and move forward in making a motion to approve item 3.1 based on the findings and conditions posted online, the public comment letters received prior to the meeting and public comment I received today, and the application materials that were reviewed by city staff.

So please note this decision of approval is appealable to the city council within 10 calendar days.

So this concludes our public hearing today at 4.13 p.m.

And if anyone has questions on the item, you can contact Vincent here or I'm sure he'll talk to you after the meeting.

So thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Yeah.