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Approved 5.7.25 165 parcels. The parcel is located in 10-year Transition future land use classification. There are no 166 amendments being proposed to the Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use. In addition to a 167 signed application, a conditional rezoning application requires a site plan, narrative, environmental 168 assessment. These items are all contained within Attachment 1 of your packets. A site-specific 169 plan featuring the existing the high school, and the proposed pole barn was submitted by the 170 applicant. The existing pole barn is located here to the east. The site plan also includes 171 accessory structures and uses including tennis courts, baseball fields, track and field facilities. 172 The plan also identified landscaping, parking, and storm water control measures which all conform 173 with the UDO. Access is provided with existing access to two driveways, which connect to New 174 Grady Brown School Road. There is no expected additional traffic to be generated from this 175 request. Mutually agreed upon conditions can be proposed as part of this process. Four 176 conditions have been proposed as part of this request from the applicant. Please note, agreed 177 upon conditions are binding to the development permitted for the zoning district. The proposed 178 conditions are contained in the proposed statement of consistency and the draft ordinance 179 contained in your packets and also here on the slide. Following the applicant's presentation,we 180 can come back to answer questions regarding the conditions at the review and recommendation 181 portion of the presentation. At this time, I am going to hand it over to the applicant to allow for 182 them to introduce themselves, and to complete their presentation. 183 184 Cy Stober: Good evening. I'm Cy Stober. I'm planning and inspections director with Orange County, and 1 185 am the applicant for this conditional rezoning. With me tonight are Patrick Florence with Orange 186 County Schools, and Ken Redfoot, the architect associated with the project. We are here tonight 187 to discuss the conditional rezoning of Cedar Ridge High School to bring it into conformance with 188 the Orange County Unified Development Ordinance, which allows for preparatory schools only in 189 conditional zoning districts. You'll note the location at New Grady Brown School Road and 190 Orange Grove Road. The school has been present since 2000, and largely in this form. It wasn't 191 until the UDO was amended in 2021 that the R1 district became a non-conforming zoning district 192 for a preparatory school use. The school use is established now for over 20 years and presents 193 no new negative impacts to the surrounding area. As such, in my opinion, it can be deemed 194 harmonious with the surrounding area. So, I just covered that preparatory schools are only 195 permitted in three conditional zoning districts. Given the school use, it had appeared that non- 196 residential conditional was the appropriate zoning district for the school. Before you, you have a 197 somewhat simpler version of the site plan that Ashley just presented to you, and I might add 198 Ashley went through a lot of the details, and I don't intend to reiterate them regarding the 199 necessity and the location of the school. Suffice it to say the pole barn,which will be used for an 200 agricultural lab is located here. That pole barn would then be enabled through the conditional 201 zoning process. There are two other areas I'll cover in just a moment that would be permitted to 202 be allowed to be developed in the future that are identified on this plan as well. Of the conditions, 203 it would be the site-specific plan that would be permitted for Cedar Ridge High School for its 204 current conditions as well as any future expansions. The applicant, Orange County Schools,will 205 provide a single-boundary survey of the property. Currently, there are four that are stitched 206 together, and, on record at the register of deeds, and the school is offering to provide a single 207 boundary survey. There's also an unopened right of way located on the property that will be 208 abandoned as part of that property boundary survey.Again, the property shall be developed 209 consistent with the site plan that you see before you. These are the two areas proposed for future 210 development. So, should the site plan be approved, should the conditional zoning district be 211 approved, these two areas would be permitted to be expanded into, provided they are consistent 212 with all of the unified development ordinance standards. I'll remind you that the landscaping 213 standards exist already on the property, and they're reflected on the site plan. There would be no 214 new encroachment into the landscaping with one exception that I'll get to in a moment, and that 215 the setbacks are per site plan. So,what we're looking for is accessory structures that would 216 conform with the school use, be consistent with the school use, and would conform with the 217 standards, say lighting standards, parking standards, etcetera of the unified development 218 ordinance. The one potential change to the landscaping is a 30-foot-wide pedestrian easement 219 along Orange Grove Road and a portion of New Grady Brown School Road. Pedestrian access to