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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 21, 2006 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: SUP-A-1-06: Partnership Academy Alternative School for Orange County <br />Class A S ecial Use Permit <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning Department PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) YES <br />ATTACHMENTS AND EXHIBITS: <br />Excerpt of Draft Minutes February 27, <br />2006 Public Hearing <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Craig Benedict, Director, (919) 245-2592 <br />Robert Davis, Planner III, (919) 245- <br />2580 <br />Eddie Kirk, Planner II, (919) 245-2582 <br />Continuation of Quarterly Public Hearing on February 27, 2006. <br />PURPOSE: To hold open, continue and fiarther adjourn the Public Hearing, and to refer the <br />item to the Planning Board for a recommendation regarding the Class A Special Use Permit <br />application far the Partnership Academy Alternative School for Orange County.. <br />BACKGROUND: On Febnaary 27, 2006, the Board of County Commissioners held a Public <br />Hearing on the proposed Partnership Academy Alternative School for Orange County. <br />Comments focused on improvements planned for a later phase of the project: <br />1. The applicant agreed to withdraw from consideration improvements planned as a <br />later project phase (Phase II) to be located in the southeast quadrant of the <br />applicant's property. New site plans have been submitted with these <br />improvements deleted. <br />2. Research indicates Storey lane is a public road. Upon confirmation of public road <br />status, Planning Staff will recommend conveyance to Orange County of property <br />necessary for right-of-way, in case -with future development of the applicant's <br />property -right-of-way becomes necessary to connect with the Graystone Lane <br />stubout in the Stoney Creek Subdivision. <br />3. The Board of County Commissioners made a finding that the Partnership Academy <br />Alternative School is a public necessity making it unnecessary, when the <br />application is returned for Board action, for there to be a finding that the use must <br />maintain or enhance the value of contiguous properties. <br />The Public Hearing was continued until this Board meeting to receive additional information and <br />to make all evidence submitted part of the record. At the Public Hearing, the Chair of the Board <br />of County Commissioners indicated it was the practice far the Planning Board to hear the <br />evidence presented at the Public Hearing and then to make a recommendation to the Board of <br />