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16 support this and other projects dear to Middle School students, who have a keen sense of social justice. Upper School takes students out into the world as they engage in adventure and service learning. The End -of -Year Experience takes them to Newton Grove in Eastern North Carolina, where they work with farmworkers and their children, and as far as the Galapagos Islands, Trinidad, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, or the desert Southwest. During the year Upper School students engage in service days at local community agencies. Each Upper School student earns two community service credits a year, through courses like Tech Theater, Construction /Maintenance, Yearbook, or Teaching Assistance. A group recently completed a project organized by a senior inspired by a teacher and friend who had undergone cancer treatment; the students handcrafted knit hats for patients at the N.C. Cancer Hospital /UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. And, like their younger counterparts, Upper School students also have their daily jobs. Statement of Justification for Special Use Permit In addition to the above information, the following provides evidence in support of the required findings for approval of a Special Use Permit, as listed in the Orange County Unified Development Ordinance, Article 5.3.2(A)(2): Finding # l : The use will maintain or promote the public health, safety, and general welfare. The proposed school use will comply with all applicable zoning regulations. Site planning and design has been carefully done in accordance with CFS values, which place strong emphasis on environmental responsibility and sustainability, preserving the natural campus setting and character, and providing physical spaces that encourage a wide range of experiences from active play to quiet meditation. In addition, the Applicant has placed a strong site planning emphasis on separation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, where practical. The site layout reflects this emphasis, maintaining safe pedestrian routes that already exist, and creating new ones where appropriate. For example, daily vehicular use of the existing driveway around the northern and western sides of the Upper School will be discontinued, in view of the intense pedestrian traffic that this area already receives. This safer site condition will be enabled by a new driveway connection from the Upper School staff parking lot to the new driveway that will pass by the north side of the new tennis courts. Additionally, site and building lighting will be provided as needed to create safe conditions during periods of darkness or insufficient natural light. The Applicant proposes to construct a new driveway extending into the site from Mt. Sinai Road, creating a second point of campus access from a public street. This driveway will connect to an additional proposed driveway extending from the west side of campus to the main driveway that exists on the east side. Altogether, the CFS property will be served by adequate vehicular accessibility to and throughout the campus. In addition, the new driveway at Mt. Sinai Rd. will provide a secondary means of accessing the campus in case the primary driveway becomes impassable. 5