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Steve Yuhasz: This line right heFevvaothe proposed subdivision line when this was just a simple subdivision. And the condition was that there be a joint driveway built along that property line. That driveway has been constructed. So that is where this particular owner of the house will access the property. Commissioner Gordon: I just want to get straight exactly what we have here. There's a difference in whether there's going to be 100 students or 120 students. Onetime | did see 8O preschool students and 40 elementary. That would add up to six buildings and wouldn't involve growth. Steve Yuhasz: That's right. We don't expect that we will have 80 students on day one. I think over a period of time the school enrollment will grow from the current approximately 50 to that 120, but we wanted to put everything on the site plan so that everyone would know what we had anticipated and we would be able to grow into that without having to come back to the Commissioners, without having to change the site plan, or change anybody's expectations. Commissioner Gordon: Do you anticipate, or do they anticipate growing beyond the 120? Steve Yuhasz: No. I think that, given the nature of the school, that is as large a student body as they could reasonably handle. Chair Jacobs: The numbers do vary within the document. Sometimes it says 100 students and sometimes it says 120. Sometimes it says 11 staff and sometimes it says 12 staff. It would just be nice if, when it comes back to us, it has the same numbers. Steve Yuhasz: We will make sure that there is only one set of numbers when you consider it when it comes back. I think that those numbers will be 120 students, 12 teachers, and 1 or 2 other staff, depending on whether the caretaker also has administrative duties or whether there is an administrator in addition to the caretaker. Let me point out one additional item. The house here is an existing old house that we thought the Planning Department had required that it be removed as part of the subdivision approval. The owner of this property has suggested that that's not the case. I haven't had the opportunity today to check that. But, if it's not required to be removed as part of the subdivision, then we would like the opportunity to investigate whether that is able to be reused as a caretaker's residence. That will be removed if necessary, but we don't want that to be a condition of approval. With that, Lisa Wallace Tate, Head of School and visionary. Lisa Wallace Tate: I've been sworn. My name is Lisa Wallace Tate and I'm the Visionary and the Head of School of the Montessori Farm School. We're unoD-profit. 5O1(c)3. and we're run by a board consisting of parents. We currently have 48 students enrolled in preschool through lower elementary, and once our new location is, we hope to expand to upper elementary. I understand that was very confusing because, in all of the talks, what we had said was we'll start with three preschool classrooms and we'll expand to four preschool classrooms, which will give us 80 preschool students. But we will not begin with 80 preschool students. Hopefully we'll begin wit vv hGOinth� n� |ooation. It's our desire to teach children up to 6th grade, not only the academics necessary to be competitive but also to teach sustainability and interdependency of all that lives and thrives on the earth, and also the necessity of nature in farming and how it relates to us on a daily basis. This is why we need this particular piece of land. We need the