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which is a new performing arts center. That is located right here on the new western part of the campus. A pedestrian bridge is planned from campus across the stream to the performing arts center. This pedestrian bridge will bring everyone through the woods and across the stream to the new performing arts building. So, again, the stream that currently forms the edge of the campus now becomes a focal point of the daily life of campus, which we think is a really important learning opportunity. The existing spray field that's been mentioned is in this area right here currently. That wastewater system will be moved approximately into this rectangular area on the north part of the site. So the existing spray irrigation field will be removed and the new wastewater area will be developed in the northern portion of the campus, as I mentioned. This new system is a surface strip irrigation system that allows 90% of the existing tree canopy to remain. A minimum amount of parking is provided at the performing arts center for accessibility and of course emergency access. But the bulk of the parking remains on the main part of campus in the existing paved areas and again the idea is that people will park in those areas if they are coming to a performance and again walk through the woods and over the bridge. And students will of course do the same. The existing .road, which right now stops right here, is being rerouted a bit to make safer conditions for the early school and then is being extended as a loop road around the campus, again for accessibility to the new performing arts area. Also, the new driveway and new access point for Mt. Sinai way down here will come and join up with that new loop road. The new baseball field is proposed here on the west side of the site and an existing baseball field will be turned into the tennis court area. I'd like to just quickly share some initial sketches of the performing arts center with you. These are early on in the design process. This is a sketch approached from the bridge coming across the stream, moving toward the performing arts courtyard. Hopefully this will give you a sense of the character and the scale of the new buildings proposed. Then in this aerial drawing, I just wanted to give you a sense, we've taken what is a fairly large footprint - 20,000 square foot building with 300-350 seats, music space, dance, and theater classrooms -we've broken it down into basically four components so we've broken down the scale of the building and created this courtyard that you see. So, again, creating outdoor space, which at Friends School is every bit a classroom as much as any indoor space. The simple forms and materials that you see echo the existing buildings and the forms that have been used on the existing campus will transfer to the new campus. I'd like to now turn this over to Tony Whitaker and encourage you. to ask him all of the hard questions about all of the details of this plan. Tony Whitaker: Thank you, my name is Tony Whitaker, the Civil Engineer for the project, and I have been sworn in. I too would like to thank the staff for all the work that has gone in to getting us to this point. Quickly, and the staff has done a great job and Ellen has done a great job of stepping us through the site and some of the principles that have informed the site development. I wanted to make a comparison quickly because I think it's helpful for the existing special use permit condition, that is, the land area and density of the existing condition, you'll see is 38 acres, a floor area ratio of 6.6%, open space ratio about 94%, and impervious surface ratio of about 16%. Those are existing conditions. Compared to the proposed condition., you'll see the most dominant change is the additional land area of 87 acres now instead of 38. You'll see. the floor area ratio has dropped from 6.6 to 3.7 percent as a percentage of the gross land area of the parcel. Open space ratio has increased from 94% to 97% now, and the impervious ratio from 16% to 13.5%. So, by these measures and in this context we say that the proposed