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79 <br /> 56 existing school site into compliance, allow for the proposed pole barn,and allow for future <br /> 57 development and improvements to the site to be processed by staff as part of the zoning <br /> 58 compliance permit process. The parcel is currently zoned as Rural Residential. The request is to <br /> 59 rezone the parcel to Non-Residential Conditional District to allow for a preparatory school,which is <br /> 60 a permitted use in the NR-CD district. Adjacent parcels in Orange County are zoned as R1,and <br /> 61 the adjacent parcels to the east, they're within the Town of Hillsborough, but they are also zoned <br /> 62 as R-20, Residential. Adjacent land uses include low-density residential and undeveloped <br /> 63 parcels. The parcel is located in 10-year Transition future land use classification. There are no <br /> 64 amendments being proposed to the Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use. In addition to a <br /> 65 signed application, a conditional rezoning application requires a site plan, narrative, environmental <br /> 66 assessment. These items are all contained within Attachment 1 of your packets. A site-specific <br /> 67 plan featuring the existing the high school, and the proposed pole barn was submitted by the <br /> 68 applicant. The existing pole barn is located here to the east. The site plan also includes <br /> 69 accessory structures and uses including tennis courts, baseball fields,track and field facilities. <br /> 70 The plan also identified landscaping, parking, and storm water control measures which all conform <br /> 71 with the UDO. Access is provided with existing access to two driveways,which connect to New <br /> 72 Grady Brown School Road. There is no expected additional traffic to be generated from this <br /> 73 request. Mutually agreed upon conditions can be proposed as part of this process. Four <br /> 74 conditions have been proposed as part of this request from the applicant. Please note, agreed <br /> 75 upon conditions are binding to the development permitted for the zoning district. The proposed <br /> 76 conditions are contained in the proposed statement of consistency and the draft ordinance <br /> 77 contained in your packets and also here on the slide. Following the applicant's presentation,we <br /> 78 can come back to answer questions regarding the conditions at the review and recommendation <br /> 79 portion of the presentation. At this time, I am going to hand it over to the applicant to allow for <br /> 80 them to introduce themselves, and to complete their presentation. <br /> 81 <br /> 82 Cy Stober: Good evening. I'm Cy Stober. I'm planning and inspections director with Orange County, and 1 <br /> 83 am the applicant for this conditional rezoning. With me tonight are Patrick Florence with Orange <br /> 84 County Schools, and Ken Redfoot, the architect associated with the project. We are here tonight <br /> 85 to discuss the conditional rezoning of Cedar Ridge High School to bring it into conformance with <br /> 86 the Orange County Unified Development Ordinance,which allows for preparatory schools only in <br /> 87 conditional zoning districts. You'll note the location at New Grady Brown School Road and <br /> 88 Orange Grove Road. The school has been present since 2000, and largely in this form. It wasn't <br /> 89 until the UDO was amended in 2021 that the R1 district became a non-conforming zoning district <br /> 90 for a preparatory school use. The school use is established now for over 20 years and presents <br /> 91 no new negative impacts to the surrounding area. As such, in my opinion, it can be deemed <br /> 92 harmonious with the surrounding area. So, I just covered that preparatory schools are only <br /> 93 permitted in three conditional zoning districts. Given the school use, it had appeared that non- <br /> 94 residential conditional was the appropriate zoning district for the school. Before you,you have a <br /> 95 somewhat simpler version of the site plan that Ashley just presented to you, and I might add <br /> 96 Ashley went through a lot of the details, and I don't intend to reiterate them regarding the <br /> 97 necessity and the location of the school. Suffice it to say the pole barn,which will be used for an <br /> 98 agricultural lab is located here.That pole barn would then be enabled through the conditional <br /> 99 zoning process. There are two other areas I'll cover in just a moment that would be permitted to <br /> 100 be allowed to be developed in the future that are identified on this plan as well. Of the conditions, <br /> 101 it would be the site-specific plan that would be permitted for Cedar Ridge High School for its <br /> 102 current conditions as well as any future expansions. The applicant, Orange County Schools,will <br /> 103 provide a single-boundary survey of the property. Currently,there are four that are stitched <br /> 104 together, and, on record at the register of deeds, and the school is offering to provide a single <br /> 105 boundary survey. There's also an unopened right of way located on the property that will be <br /> 106 abandoned as part of that property boundary survey.Again,the property shall be developed <br /> 107 consistent with the site plan that you see before you. These are the two areas proposed for future <br /> 108 development. So, should the site plan be approved, should the conditional zoning district be <br /> 109 approved,these two areas would be permitted to be expanded into, provided they are consistent <br /> 110 with all of the unified development ordinance standards. I'll remind you that the landscaping <br />