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Friends School. The abstract for this item begins on page 1 and extends all the way to page __ 144. I am going to review portions of this abstract and the applicant has a brief presentation and will respond to any questions that may arise. The background is covered on page 1 and 2 of the abstract. The school was originally approved in the 1980's as a planned development. Previous modifications had been approved and authorized by the County Commissioners over the years with respect to the operation of the facility as well as the operation of the existing septic system on site. It needs to be remembered that this school was in existence-and began operation before the County adopted comprehensive regulations governing the development of school operations as are currently articulated in section 5.8.4 of the Unified Development Ordinance. As this is a new request seeking to expand and modify the County's original approval, the applicant is obligated to demonstrate compliance, not only with the provisions of Section 5.8.4, but also required to rezone portions of property to conditional use as the planned development zoning designation no longer exists. You all remember that the conditional use permit process took over the planned development permit. review process when the UDO was adopted in April of this year. The applicant's proposal is to abandon and re-locate the existing septic, the wastewater treatment system, out of an existing stream buffer. They are going to be developing a new performing arts center, which we are going to look at when we review the submitted site plan in a moment.- I'm going to call these particular issues out to you. They are looking to develop additional recreational fields. They are going to relocating, for example, an existing baseball field and developing alternative fields. They are going to do additions to existing school buildings. They are going to be installing a new access drive via Mt. Sinai Road, and they're going to be developing additional parking facilities. As I indicated previously, this involves a rezoning request. They are proposing the rezoning of parcels of property from existing Rural Buffer and Planning Development Housing Rural Buffer to Rural Buffer Conditional Use. The size of all potential parcels involved is about 40 acres of the existing school operation, which is already encumbered under old special use permits to allow for the operation of the school. This is a copy of the site plan, which you all have in your packet. I'd like to call your attention to several facets and elements of this project to get you oriented. (Pointing to map) This is Mt. Sinai Road here. This is Friend School Road here. This, denoted on the site plan, this black area here is the new performing arts center, which is right outside the stream buffer. The existing school buildings show dark areas where there are going to be additions. The old baseball field has been moved here. You will note here is the proposed new access road off of Mt. Sinai with additional parking here to support the performing arts center. We have tennis courts and other recreational areas down in here. We have a building proposed next to the existing soccer fields and athletic fields, and the wastewater treatment facility will be up in this general area. As the Board knows, this is a two-step approval process. You .are going to be taking action on a rezoning request and you're going to be taking action on a Class A Special Use Permit, which is aquasi-judicial hearing process according to the provisions of Section 2.7 and 2.9 of the UDO. You're going to be reviewing each of these applications simultaneously, but when you take action, you are going to be taking action on the legislative component first and the quasi judicial portion second. You need to bear in mind that the information in terms of whether or not you're going to approve or deny the quasi judicial component, i.e., the Special Use Permit, needs to be based on the evidence entered into the record during the various public hearings and the testimony offered herein. To review the provisions of the UDO, I'm going to call your attention