Thursday, December 12, 2019

• St. Frances of Rome New 1200 Seat Church

Special Planning Commission meeting of December 18, 2019

Three key items on the agenda. Wildomar Shooting Range and Academy Project (link to blog about it)St. Frances of Rome Church Project, and Multi-Family Design Guidelines Workshop/Study Session.


Below is from the city's press release from last month regarding the St. Frances of Rome project. I've added two images from google maps to give a better idea of where this is in Wildomar.
Drawings from the agenda packet.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

The proposed project includes the construction of a 17,601-square-foot church building with a seating capacity of 1,200 people (a net increase of 303 seats from existing conditions); construction of a 9,792- square-foot office and classroom/meeting room building; conversion of the preschool to a church office; the continued use of the existing church building on the project site as a multi-purpose building; removal of existing modular classrooms; and the reconstruction of an existing parking lot with 234 additional parking spaces, for a total of 412 parking spaces onsite. 

A 6-foot high block wall would be placed around the project site’s eastern, western, and southern boundaries, where required, to screen automobiles. 
The red X is the location of the proposed church building.
The proposed project would result in a total increase of 27,393 square feet of building area. 

The proposed development plans, including architectural renderings and elevations, are provided in Appendix 1. Figure 4, Site Plan, shows a site plan of the proposed improvements. 

Church Building 
The new church building would be one story and approximately 42 feet and 8 inches in height. 

The new church building would include a bell system that would include a bell within a supporting wall that would be approximately 23 feet 4 inches tall and 32 feet wide; the bell would only sound on ceremonial occasions such as Easter and Christmas. 

The meeting rooms would serve as weekday Religious Education. The building would be painted with a cream-colored stucco with terracotta-colored metal Spanish tile roofing. 

The church would operate with Mass times as follows: 

• Saturdays: 4–5 p.m. and 6–7 p.m. 
• Sundays: 7–8 a.m., 9–10 a.m., 11 a.m.–12 p.m., 1–2 p.m., and 5–6 p.m. 
• Weekday Mass: 8 a.m. – 9 a.m. 

No other functions would occur during Mass times. 

Office and Classroom Building The project includes construction of a 9,792-square-foot office and classroom building after the removal of the existing modular structures on the site. 
Southerly view. The red X is the location of the proposed church building.
The building would be one story and approximately 29 feet tall. The office and classroom building would have a stucco finish. 

Parking Lot 
The proposed project would reconstruct the existing asphalt parking lot at the southern portion of the site (APN 366-330-011). 

The new parking lot would be improved to accommodate 234 parking spaces in addition to the existing 178 spaces (412 spaces total). The periphery of the reconstructed parking lot would be improved with landscaping, and the driveway connection between the existing onsite circular roadway and the proposed parking lot would be improved. 

The proposed parcel merger would make the parking lot a part of the church property and would make the property one parcel instead of two.

Link to Agenda Packet

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