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August 23, 2016 WHEREAS, New Berean Baptist Church, the owner of the subject property by and through its Trustees, has made application pursuant to Section 40.1-2.3B of the Code of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia (2006) for the granting of a use permit to operate a child day care center at 36 Bamboo Road, Portsmouth, Virginia; and WHEREAS , the applicant and the Planning Director have done all things required to be done in connection with said application; and WHEREAS , the Planning Commission has recommended the granting of the application for a use permit with conditions. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia: 1. That it finds that the use for which the permit is sought: (a) Complies with the applicable standards of the Zoning Ordinance; (b) Is consistent with the comprehensive plan; (c) Is compatible with the character of surrounding lands and the uses permitted in the zoning district(s) of surrounding lands; (d) Is configured to minimize adverse effects, including the visual impacts of the proposed use on adjacent lands; (e) Avoids significant deterioration of water and air resources, and other natural resources; (f) Maintains safe and adequate egress and ingress onto the site, and safe road conditions around the site; (g) Allows for the protection of property values and the ability of neighboring lands to develop the uses permitted in the zoning districts; and (h) Complies with all other city, state, and federal laws and regulations. 2. That New Berean Baptist Church is hereby granted a use permit pursuant to Section 40.1-2.3(B) of the Code of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia (2006) to operate a child day care center at 3600 Bamboo Road, Portsmouth, Virginia, being more particularly described as: UP-16-07 3600 Bamboo Road (Tax Parcel 0846-0040) ALL THAT certain lot, piece or parcel of land, lying, being and situate in the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, and being bounded on the South by the right of way of the Seaboard Coast Line Railway which divides the property conveyed from the subdivision known as Armistead Forest, Section 3, on the East by the property belonging to Peachtree and Associates shown on the plat recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth in Map Book 8 at page 13; and, on the North and West by a ditch or branch which is the dividing line between the cities of Portsmouth and Suffolk. BEING the property conveyed to Howard L. Bernard and Gordon Harold Jackson, Trustees of the New Berean Baptist Church, by Deed of Bargain and Sale from Rupert R. Wallace and James V. Johnson, Trustees of the Virginia Evangelizing Fellowship, an unincorporated religious society, dated July 31, 1992 and recorded in the Portsmouth Circuit Court Clerk’s Office in Deed Book 1079 at Page 1279.