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4 Draft 1 AGENDA ITEM 6: To conduct an evidentiary hearing to a review Special Use Permit 2 (SUP) Major Modification (Case SUP25-0009) for a previously approved SUP and Site 3 Plan for an existing Elementary, Middle, and Secondary school facility commonly known 4 as the "Emerson Waldorf School." The Major SUP Modification request was submitted by 5 Waldorf Educational Association of North Carolina. The request includes proposed 6 changes to the previously approved site plan and SUP conditions. The site is located at 7 Orange County PINS: 9871646437, 9871658140, 9871743098, and 9871721935, with a 8 primary property address at 6211 New Jericho Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. 9 10 Ashley Moncado: I'm going to go ahead and proceed. All right, so Item 6 on tonight's agenda is an application 11 for a major modification to an approved special-use permit for an existing school. The four 12 parcels related to this request include the existing Emerson Waldorf School campus and is 13 located at 6211 New Jericho Road in the Chapel Hill Township. The parcel is currently zoned 14 as rural buffer. Adjacent parcels are also zoned as rural buffer and planned development 15 housing rural residential. Surrounding land uses include residential and undeveloped parcels. 16 The parcel is located in the rural buffer future-land-use classification. In addition, this project is 17 located within the joint planning area. As a result, this application was provided to the Towns 18 of Chapel Hill and Carrboro for courtesy review. The existing school use and campus operate 19 based on approximately 55.27 acres based on a special-use permit and master plan approved 20 in 2015. The main campus is contained on approximately 24.76 acres and served Pre-K to 21 high school students. The main campus contains several existing buildings, including a middle 22 school, high school, woodland school, blacksmith shop, maintenance shop, and offices. The 23 existing SUP approved the school's master plan, containing several proposed buildings 24 including, but not limited to, an arts center, auditorium, gymnasium, and additions to existing 25 structures totaling 56,562 square feet. In addition,the 2015 SUP allows for up to 350 students. 26 The major modification request is to modify the 2015 SUP to update the campus master plan 27 for the school to plan for future development over the next 10 years and reflect future school 28 programming needs. The proposed modification does not propose any changes to the land 29 use or the approved student enrollment, but primarily eliminates buildings previously approved 30 as part of the 2015 master plan. No changes are being proposed to the ingress-egress design 31 and access previously approved in 2015. On this slide here, we're trying to illustrate what the 32 proposed modifications are to the master plan. The buildings or additions approved as part of 33 the 2015 SUP are identified in green and in red. The red boxes identify the buildings and 34 additions which were approved as part of the 2015 master plan but have been proposed for 35 removal from this master plan in part of this modification. This includes the shop building 36 addition, high school addition, eighth-grade classroom, and gymnasium and parking located 37 on the south parcel, south of Millhouse Road. The green boxes represent the buildings 38 previously approved as part of the 2015 SUP and will remain as part of the school's master 39 plan. Other modifications to the master plan include the inclusion of the theater support addition 40 on the main school campus, identified here in blue, as well as the master plan identifies four 41 structures on the parcel south of Millhouse Road, including farm structures and a greenhouse. 42 The applicant is pursuing bona fide farm status for this parcel, which may allow for these 43 structures to be exempt from zoning regulations. So here we have the proposed master plan 44 for you all here tonight. That was included in Attachment 2 of your packets. Minimum front side 45 and rear zoning district setbacks are being met on the proposed master plan. The site plan 46 also demonstrates compliance with landscape standards related to foundation planting, 47 between-lot plantings, street trees, landscape buffers, and tree preservation. Proposed access 48 parking and stacking areas are meeting LIDO standards. Access to the main school facility is 4