Developers of Manteca’s second bowling alley and family fun center and preparing to break ground.

But in order to do so, they are asking the city to defer the payment of Public Facilities Implementation Program (PFIP) Transportation Fees for two years.

The request is before the Manteca City Council when they meet Tuesday at 6 p.m.

The bowling is the initial phase of a two-phase project approved for 7.18 acres of barren land on the stretch between the curves on Atherton Drive between Airport Way and Union Road.

The second phase is a wedding venue/banquet hall/events center.

The heart of the Three Strikes Family Entertainment Center is a 40-lane bowling alley complete with a massive arcade, a full-service restaurant, and outdoor beer garden.

It also includes a sky lounge overlooking the bowling alley.

There are two buildings involved:

*A 2-story banquet hall/events center consisting of 54,900 square feet.

*A bowling alley/family entertainment center involving 82,009 square feet.

The banquet hall/conference center will include:

*three 200-person capacity rooms.

*two 100-person capacity rooms.

*16,400 square feet of assembly space.

*two chapels.

*six brides and grooms dressing rooms.

*large full-service kitchen with two complete service lines, one for domestic food preparation and one for ethnic food preparation.

*full video center for live recording of events.

Couples married there will be handed a USB flash drive as they are leaving with both the wedding and reception recorded. The entire wedding can also be livestreamed for those guests unable to attend

There will be three elevators including one dedicated exclusively for service use.

The plan calls for planting 178 Italian cypresses —that grow at a rate of three feet a year — along the sound wall separating the commercial site from adjacent homes.

They are evergreens that typically grow to an average of 50 feet and 3 feet in width.

There will also be 432 shade trees planted throughout the 435-space parking lot.

Details involving city requirements and operating hours for the bowling alley/family entertainment center and banquet hall/conference center are as follows:

*a traffic signal on Atherton Drive at the midway driveway that will also tie into with a separated bikeway on the north side of the arterial.

*a narrow “finger” median along with a left turn pocket will be created on Atherton.

*that finger median would also serve to enforce the right turn only requirement for two secondary access driveways from Atherton.

*pedestrian access, but no vehicle access, from Oleander Avenue that will end in a terminus on the south side of the parcel.

*that access will require a grassy area with removable bollards so it can double as emergency access for fire.

*operating hours for the bowling alley will be Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Friday from 11 a.m. to 1:30 a.m., Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1:30 a.m., and varied holiday hours.

*7-foot soundwalls between the parcel and homes backing up to it.

*a 10-foot wide landscape buffer strip along the residential sound wall.

*sound baffling components built into the southern walls of both buildings.

*no windows will face the south.

*all roof-top mechanical equipment will be screened from view.

*a 6-foot soundwall around a municipal water well.

*the two facilities will share a 435-space parking lot. For comparison, the Big League Dreams sports complex has 535 parking spaces.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com