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z/z3/9t3 PUBC.tC {.~~,~~ MtA(U72g ~aY ex>sting as of S/6l98 in the R8, AR, R-1, Rd, R-3 and R-4 rosidentia! districts from 8.8 percent (10 perat+nt in Planned developments, 1Z.3 percent in R-4) to 14.1 Percent. The Proposed standaro is equal ~ ~ me cement Unit on fbor area in PD-R-4 district and is consistent with ac~tuai }~ area of existing 4 t~ci6ties. 5 6 QUESTIONS AND/OR COMMENTS FROM THE BOARD OF COMAAiSS1ONERS: None 7 $ QUEST~Ng qND/OR COMMENT$ FROM THE PLANNING BOARD: None 9 10 ouESTIONS aNOroR coMMENTS FROM cfFtZENs 11 12 Rever~rxi Earl Ed~ois, Jr., with the Ebenezer Baptist Church, spoke in support of this Text 13 Amendmont.. tie commented that their current facility is too small to accommodate the size of their 14 congr8gation. He mentioned the number of children that they are currently serving and that it is important 15 to them to lncxease the size of thew church. They currently have 75.100 children in their congregation t6 eadt Sunday and they need to provide a facility that is conducive tv worship. 7T t $ A motion was made by Commissioner Carey. seconded by Commissioner Halkiotis, to refer this 19 item to the Planning Board for a recomn>•nda0on to be referred to the Board of Commissioners ra sooner 20 than May a, 1998. 21 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 22 23 This item was Chaired by Chairwoman Margaret Brown. She asked everyone who wished to speak 24 tv come forward and be sweet in by the Deputy Clerk. 25 26 27 4. CLASS A SPECULL USE PERMR PD-1-98 Grolina Friends School 28 The following citizens and staff were sworn in by tiw Deputy Clerk so that they could 29 speak to this item: Orange County Planner Emily Cameron, John Baird, Prindpal, Carolina Friends 3o School and Ellen Weinstein. This item was presented by Planner Emily Cameron for the purpose of 31 r@Ceiviru~ Catlzen cemrnent on a proposed modification to the Special Use Permit for Carolina Friends 32 Sd>ool to accorrwrwdatf a ten-year master plan for expansion of the existing privatt school approved as a ~ pied devebprrrent in 1990 and modified in 1992, 1996, and 1997. Carolina Friends school is an 34 existing Private school located vn the west side of Ftlends School Road (SR 1719). The property 35 contains 38.62 atx~es and is zoned PD-RB, planned Devebpment -Rural Buffer. In August of 1990 a 36 Class A Speda! Use Permit was issued for Carolina Fronds School to allow the use of the school's 37 waslewater disposal system in the Rural Buffer. A planned devebpmertt A also required where there aro 38 multiple prirx,+pa{ structures on anon-residential lot greater than two acres in size. This Special Use 39 Permit wee modified in 1992 and 1996. to 1997 the Scholl swapped land with Duks University !o acquire ~0 aaeage between the existing scinool and Friends School Road. The current request is to sccommodate a 42 ~~ ~~ ~ ~ expand the school inb the acreage acquired in 1997. Student enrollment is Proposed to increase by }hre fipr a total of 422 students. The staff will increase by one for a tool of 82 staff 43 members. The proposal includes a new entrance oo the school site south of the existing entrance on 44 Friends School Road. The new entrance wip have better sight distance than the existing entrance. The 45 exlstirq entrance will cont+nue to access a portion of the campus, but wiq not connect to the proposed 46 systsrn of driveways. Fare new buildings are proposed (37,150 aq. R): amulti-purpose center 47 (gymnasium). a rneetinQ house, a new Early School building, an athletic field house, and a coverall 48 service area. Several additbns to existing stn~dures are proposed totaling 14,700 square fleet. The 49 expansion also imrolves a baseball fkid, two soccer fields. and an outdoor anphitheeter. 50 51 QUESTIONS ANdOR COMMENTS FROM THE dOAttO OF COMiMISS1ONFRS: 52 53 Comrriisaiorrer Gordon asked for cbrlfkatlon on why the space is being increased but the student 55 ~~ is ony being increased by 5 stt,denb. 56 Johtl 88ud. Prindpad, Carolina Friends School. replied that the kmg-term vision floc the sd~ool calls 57 bran increase in tadlities but not tier a significant increese in enrollment The cement sae of the schod