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approve both, and hoping that we actually don't have to use the temporary classroom space, that we'll be able to move immediately into the construction. I just wanted to mention that I have spoken with the Fire Chief of Caldwell as late as yesterday about the fire protection issues and we went through this, and he believes that as we develop the final plans that we will be able to size the holding pond that's shown on the site plan just to the east of this to be adequate to store the amount of water that they would need to fight fires at this facility. Regarding the second entrance, as you have the initial site plan, we only have a little bit of frontage on there and it just didn't make sense to try to put two entrances in that small area. It would not have served any particular purpose. And one of the things that the second entrance is designed to provide is separation for school buses from other school traffic. Obviously, we're not going to have any school buses here, so we didn't feel that was really necessary. HoxveweF, we've reentered negotiations with the owner of this property, and she has agreed to recombine and change her lot so as to allow us to have the second entrance further on up Terry Road to provide an alternative entrance just in case we should need it. It's not one we would expect to use very often. It enters into the back side of the parking lot. We would like you to coOsidor, and the Planning Board to consider this particular plan that does show full compliance with the ordinance. The one last comment that I had, is that you will hear some concerns from some of the adjoining property owners about the amount of traffic that this school will generate. Right now, the traffic count on Terry Road is about 650 trips per day. We will probably eventually generate something like 550 trips per day with this facility. The capacity of Terry Road is somewhere 7,500 to 10,000 trips per day. 8o, while it is true that this facility may in fact come close to doubling the amount of traffic, it will not in any way come close to affecting the ability of Terry Road to handle the traffic that's going to be generated. Unless there are some questions at this point, I'd like to introduce Lisa Wallace Tate, who is the Head of School, and she's going to tell you a little bit about the Montessori school and why we need to locate this particular facility in this kind of rural area. Commissioner Carey: I have one question that relates to the property that the second driveway was carved out of. How does that property have access to their property? Steve Yuhasz: That property is part of the lot that you see where there is an existing house on that. There's a driveway that is adjacent to and south of that property. This really started as a minor subdivision, and one of the conditions of a minor subdivision approval was that these two lots have a joint driveway. That joint driveway has been built. What we've agreed to is that if this special use permit is approved, then we're going to change the property line so that that joint dhvevvoy, which straddled the property |ine, will become part of the individual residential lot. Commissioner Carey: Go, the owner of that individual residential lot will use the driveway that the school is using to access their property. Steve Yuhasz: No. They will have their own driveway. Commissioner Carey: It is not shown on either one of these maps.