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Y, <br />0-R A N G E C O U N T Y <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date August 3 1992 <br />SUBJECT: PD --1 -92 CAROLINA FRIENDS SCHOOL <br />(MODIFICATION OF PD -3 -90) <br />DEPARTMENT: PLANNING <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Site Plan <br />vicinity Map <br />Planning Board Recommended <br />Findings <br />5/26/92 Public Hearing Minutes <br />6/15/92 Planning Board Minutes <br />(Refer to 5/26/92 agenda <br />packet for other attachments) <br />1 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item # �=-A <br />PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br />INFORMATION CONTACT:Em11y Cameron <br />Extension 2580 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough - 732 -8181 <br />Durham - 688 -7331 <br />Mebane - 227 -2031 <br />Chapel Hill - 967- 9251/968 -4501 <br />PURPOSE: To consider a proposed modification to the Special Use <br />Permit for Carolina Friends School which would allow <br />expansion of the existing private school approved as a <br />Planned development in 1990. <br />BACKGROUND: Carolina Friends School is an existing private school <br />located on the north side of Mt. Sinai Road (SR 1718) <br />and west of Friends School Road (SR 1719). The <br />property contains 32.94 acres and is zoned PD -RB, <br />Planned Development - Rural Buffer. <br />In August of 1990 a Class A Special Use Permit was <br />issued for Carolina Friends School to allow the use of <br />the school's wastewater disposal system in the Rural <br />Buffer. Article 6.20.1 of the Zoning Ordinance states <br />that a large ground absoption system with a design <br />capacity over 3000 gallons per day may be allowed in <br />the RB district only through approval of a planned <br />development. <br />The Board of Directors of Carolina Friends School <br />adopted a five -year master plan in 1991 for <br />development of the school. The plan calls for <br />expansion of the facility with a 9500 square foot <br />Resource Center adjacent to the Upper School, a 200 <br />square foot office additon, four 120 square foot <br />storage sheds, handicapped accessible bathrooms, and <br />road widening with additional parking. Student <br />enrollment is projected to increase by twenty <br />