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up - specifically dealing with the occupancy of the structure, access management issues, the cadence of permit review/approval, specifically securing the necessary Building and Health Department permits, as well as the necessary inspections from the Orange County Fire Marshall regarding occupancy. We also are going to be requesting notification from the State concerning the accreditation of the program for being compliant with State guidelines. The applicant will be responding to these recommended conditions at an appropriate time at a future meeting. For this evening, what you are being asked to do, as noted in our Recommendations section, is: 1. Receive the application, 2. Conduct the Public Hearing, 3. Receive any and all comments on the proposal 4. Refer the amendment package to the Planning Board for its recommendation with a request that a recommendation be returned in time for the August 23, 2011 regular BOCC meeting, and 5. Adjourn the public hearing to August 23, 2011 in order to receive the Planning Board recommendation. I will be more than happy to answer any questions you have and the applicant is here this evening and will be addressing the Board as well. Larry Wright: The Chair would like to ask anybody that is sworn in to come up and speak from the public. Michael Neal: Good evening, I'm Michael Neal, and I have been sworn. I represent the applicant and I think Mr. Harvey did a thorough job of presenting the project, so I won't belabor it anymore. I'm here to answer any questions that you may have. With that, I'll set aside. Jack Niklas: I've been sworn in. We live at 2215 Running Pine, which is right in the backyard of the church, presently. I speak to some concerns that we have with the addition of the school. Concern #1 is that the school is required to relocate and he is concerned why was this school required to relocate. Were there concerns in the neighborhood that we should be addressing at this hearing? I'm concerned about the septic. It is a residential area and a house built in a residential neighborhood and it falls under different guidelines. That kind of information would be environmentally useful being in an adjacent property. With the daytime school running five days a week, the church already has increased their activities throughout the week from just having Sunday service to having Saturday events, weekday events, and this now will push their activities over and creates a seven-day busy activity schedule for folks at the church and the school. As we have a view of the parking lot, they've had to modify the parking lot to adjust to the traffic increase and they are packed. Those are concerns of ours. Because the school does not have a kitchen, they are going to have lunches provided by the students. That is fine. There will be additional and unusual trash storage and I'm concerned about what provisions will be made for the storage and also the pickup. It was mentioned about recess and outdoor activities for the school and that they do have a fenced-in playground. I'm concerned about the definition of a recess and outdoor activities, specifically outdoor activities. Does that mean when it's a nice day that the kids will be outdoors all day? Those are my concerns at this time.