I forget the other question.

All right.

Welcome to the uh September 11th regular meeting of the Walnut Creek Planning Commission.

Yes.

Commissioner Moran.

Yep.

Commissioner Cound.

Here.

Commissioner Strongman.

Here.

Commissioner Quok.

Yeah.

Commissioner Klopp.

Here.

Vice Chair Needing?

Yeah.

And Chair Anderson.

Thank you.

Okay.

Do we have anything on the consent calendar today?

Nothing on the consent calendar.

Anybody in the audience like to add anything to the consent calendar?

Okay.

Public communications.

This is one of two times when you may speak to us.

One time is when your actual hearing comes up that you want to speak on.

This time right now is for items that you might want to address that are not on the agenda that you might want to bring to our attention for a later agenda or for some information.

Does anyone wish to speak at this time for the public comment?

Thank you very much.

And we'll move right on to the one public hearing we have tonight, the Taiwanese American Culture Center of V Spay, design review and conditional use permits.

Oh I'm sorry.

It's not doesn't have a number.

Okay.

Thank you.

All right, and I'll ask for a staff report.

Great.

Thank you, Commissioners.

If it's okay, I'm gonna present from my desk here today.

Thank you.

Um good evening, everybody.

Uh we are here uh to consider the Taiwanese American Culture Center.

Uh, that will be located at 1755 uh Sunnyvale Avenue.

Um the applicant tonight is requesting a design review and uh a few conditional use permits for the proposal.

Uh the applicant Cyril Chung, who is also the architect of this project along with their team is here tonight, as am I to answer any questions that you may have after the presentation.

Just to orient you with the site, uh this area is uh zoned single family residential.

There are three parcels uh that will be merged as there are 50 existing parking stalls on site and there is an existing church uh facility as well as some detached um like a social hall as well as office building, all for the uses of the church facility.

Um after the merger, all the parking stalls will be shared among uh all users of the site, and the surrounding area consists primarily of single-family homes.

Here are uh photographs and a aerial image of the existing site.

As you can see here, the East Bay Formation United Methodist Church, that will um remain as part of this project, the pastor's home in the back of the site, and uh there is an existing uh social hall building, which will also remain, and then the building that you see fronting Sunnyville next to the church, which I have identified with the arrows, uh, will be um demolished as part of this project, and the new community center will be located in this place.

Uh so as mentioned earlier, the 3,000 square foot office building that's fronting Sunnyville will be demolished for construction of the 4,500 square foot one-story community center uh building uh which will offer Taiwanese uh cultural classes for adults and after school program for K through eight students, as well as memorialize or legalize an existing uh church that's been operating on sites.

The project also includes uh widening of the existing driveway, relocation of existing ADA stalls, and new public walkways, and uh new landscaping and trees as well as new signage.

And just to go into the uh business operating plan, the Taiwanese American Culture Center will operate from 9 a.m.

to noon Monday through Fridays.

The activities include cultural enrichment and language uh uh classes or other such classes uh that are tailored for adults and seniors, and the after school program will be tailored for K through eight students, operates from 2 to 5 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

Uh there is a pickup and drop-off area that will occur by the parking stalls nearest to the courtyard, and I will show this in the upcoming slides.

The activities offered again are language and dance classes, arts and crafts, and other group activities.

The applicant is anticipating 20 students and four teachers.

And the existing church operates only on Sundays.

So tonight, the planning commission will be considering several conditional use permits, the cultural institution use, which defines the community culture center, the after-school program, as well as legalizing the existing existing religious assembly use and the design review for the community center building to basically essentially the site layout and the building design as well as the new landscaping.