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the ability to approve those minor deviations if there is a public purpose or a public benefit that could be derived from making those minor deviations. The first one is the maximum floor area in the ED-Limited Office - in the Linear Office District. That district is set up for a minimum 20,000-square foot size lot. We have a maximum floor area ratio of 5,000 square feet for each building of the 20,000. It is roughly 25 percent of the lot that could be covered with the building. This particular zoning lot, once you do the two additions for the two properties, will be 3.25 acres or 141,000 square feet. If you played out the 20,000-square foot lot, that would be the equivalent of about 40,000 square feet that you could actually build on those lots if they were all individually subdivided and then brought back in with their 5,000-square foot maximums each. However, the Credit Union is not proposing to do that. The other thing that could have happened on this site is, had the Credit Union not purchased the property, that adjacent properly could have been subdivided into 20,000-square foot lots and each of those could have come back with 5,000-square foot additions. So, roughly 10,000 square feet could have been built if that adjacent property had been sold, or if someone else had purchased it, and they legally subdivided it and then brought back a requirement. You could have had up to 40,000 square feet on the same size lot, ar, under the second scenario, you could have had an additional 10,000 on that adjacent lot. What they are asking for is 7,334 square feet total for the entire 3.25-acre site. It is up to the Board to decide and the Planning Board to look at as to whether or not this request has sufficient public benefit to allow this request as it is now being proposed. The second deviation that the Credit Union is requesting will be the Hillsborough Area EDD, which was approved by BOCC as not allowing drive-through facilities. The four lanes that are there now are technically grand-fathered in. They are also under a Special Use Permit and they cannot be deemed illegal under the Special Use Permit (SUP} because the SUP was in place when the new zoning was put into effect. Sa the additional lane would be a request to deviate from the standards of no drive-through facilities. The 33 percent expansion would be a request to this Board. The Planning Department researched this to find out what they may or may not be doing. They are promoting their Internet banking. The Credit Union is encouraging people to da more of their business by the Internet. The Credit Union will then be able to reduce the amount of "sit" times for people looking to transact business at the drive-through. They are looking to service their existing clients and possible increase their clientele. There is a limitation as to what can be added to the Credit Union based on their criteria. I don't think just anyone can join the Credit Union. So they are limited as to who would be able to join the Credit Union over the long term. They are looking at this expansion as a way to serve their existing client base, which they feel could also reduce emissions because people are sitting far shorter amounts of time. The third issue or deviation is really not a deviation. The maximum building height in this proposed district is 30 feet. The existing building is, in a couple of places, 35 feet. But what the Credit Union in asking to add on is significantly less than the 30 feet. Any addition that they are looking to add on to this building meets the requirements of the district. But, if it's rezoned to PD-ED-LNR, you will have anon-conforming situation and would need a deviation that is five feet, which would be a little bit too tall. There were conditions placed on this in 1997. We have incorporated all of those back to it, related to sewer and landscaping. NCDOT requirements back then were to dedicate right-of-ways, which they did. For some reason it has not shown up on the Land Records system, but there was right-of- way dedicated along Hwy 86 for 20 feet. And the Credit Union has requested an additional five feet