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HomeMy WebLinkAbout6-4-25 Planning Board Minutes Approved 8.6.25 1 MEETING MINUTES 2 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD 3 JUNE 4,2025 4 REGULAR MEETING 5 6 MEMBERS PRESENT: Lamar Proctor(Chair) Cheeks Township, Chris Johnston (Vice-Chair) Hillsborough Township, 7 Meg Millard, Little River Township Representative; Statler Gilfillen, Eno Township Representative; 8 Charity Kirk,At-Large Representative;Whitney Watson,At-Large Representative; Delores Bailey, 9 At-Large Representative; Steve Kaufmann, Bingham Township Representative. 10 11 MEMBERS ABSENT: Beth Bronson,At-Large Representative; Venkat Yendapalli, Cedar Grove Township 12 Representative; Jonah Garson,At-Large Representative; Liz Kalies, Chapel Hill Township 13 Representative. 14 15 STAFF PRESENT: Cy Stober, Planning & Inspections Director;Taylor Perschau, Current Planning Manager; Lauren 16 Honeycutt, Planner II; Jack Moran, Planner 1 17 18 OTHERS PRESENT: Peter Klopfer, Mark Kuhn, Karen Cumberbatch,Andrew Goolsby, Michael Rocco, Ellen Weinstein 19 20 AGENDA ITEM 1: CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL 21 22 The meeting began at 7:02 PM 23 24 AGENDA ITEM 2: INFORMATION ITEMS 25 26 Lamar Proctor reviewed the upcoming Planning Board and Board of County Commissioners meeting calendars. 27 28 AGENDA ITEM 3: APPROVAL OF MINUTES 29 30 Lamar Proctor: Do I have any motion to amend the May 7th minutes? Hearing no motion,do I have a motion to 31 approve the May 7th meeting minutes. 32 33 Statler Gilfillen: I'll make a motion. 34 35 Lamar Proctor: Statler moves. Do I have a second? 36 37 Meg Millard: Second. 38 39 Lamar Proctor: All right, Meg seconds. All those in favor of approval of the May 7th minutes, raise your hand or 40 say aye. 41 42 MOTION BY Statler Gilfillen to approve the minutes from the May Th meeting. Seconded by Meg Millard. 43 44 MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY 45 46 Lamar Proctor: Thank you,so those are approved by unanimous vote. Are there any additions, proposed 47 additions to the agenda? Hearing none,we move onto the public charge. 48 49 AGENDA ITEM 4: CONSIDERATION OF ADDITIONS TO AGENDA 50 51 None. 52 53 AGENDA ITEM 5: PUBLIC CHARGE 54 55 Lamar Proctor read the Public Charge. Approved 8.6.25 56 57 AGENDA ITEM 6: CHAIR COMMENTS 58 59 Lamar Proctor: As to chair comments, I don't have any comments other than its beautiful weather, and I hope 60 everyone is doing well. 61 62 AGENDA ITEM 7: ZONING ATLAS AMENDMENT(CONDITIONAL DISTRICT)-To review and make a recommendation to 63 the BOCC on a Zoning Atlas Amendment to rezone+/- 110.456 acres(PINs: 9892-31-0306, 9892- 64 22-7326, 9892-20-2052) located at 4809 Friends School Road, Durham,within the Chapel Hill 65 Township of Orange County. The proposed rezoning is from PDH-RB(Planned Development 66 Housing -Rural Buffer)and RB(Rural Buffer)to NR-CD (Non-Residential Conditional District). 67 The anticipated BOCC public hearing date is September 4, 2025. 68 69 Lamar Proctor: We move onto Agenda Item 7 which is a zoning atlas amendment to review and make a 70 recommendation to the BOCC on a zoning atlas amendment to rezone plus or minus 110.456 71 acres located at 4809 Friends School Road, Durham within the Chapel Hill Township of Orange 72 County. The proposed rezoning is from PDH-RB which is plan development housing within the 73 rural buffer and RB rural buffer to NR-CD non-residential conditional district. The anticipated 74 BOCC public hearing date is September 4th. All right, Lauren? 75 76 Lauren Honeycutt: Thank you, chair. Let me skip through the beginning here to get to our item. As you mentioned, 77 this is a conditional district zoning atlas amendment for Carolina Friends School to rezone from 78 PDH-RB and RB, rural buffer,to a non-residential conditional district. This is a conditional district 79 rezoning, and this means that it is use specific, and it is site specific, so that is what the rezoning 80 is contingent on. Looking at our site here,the main school is at 4809 Friends School Road. It's 81 located in the Chapel Hill Township. We have three pins involved in this rezoning. Its watershed 82 is Jordan Lake unprotected, and the applicant is Carolina Friends School in conjunction with the 83 Peter and Martha Klopfer Life Estate. The current zoning is the planned development housing 84 rural buffer. You can see that in the blue portion here that came with the special use permit 85 granted by the BOCC, and then also the green shown on the map is the rural buffer zoning. 86 They're requesting to rezone all three parcels to non-residential conditional district, so this would 87 include the sites that were not in the special use permit which is that bottom parcel there.And 88 then surrounding zoning,as y'all can see on the map is rural buffer. Future land use is rural buffer 89 as well. This is meant to be land adjacent to an urban, or transition area. It's rural in character 90 and should remain rural. Uses are low density, and there are not expected to be urban services 91 provided, and Carolina Friends School is not proposing an amendment to the future land use map. 92 This parcel is also in the joint planning area,which has its own future land use classification of 93 rural buffer as well within parcels in the JPA that are zoned rural buffer, designated rural buffer will 94 have a further distinction, and those parcels, these three further distinction is a rural residential,so 95 this is meant to be residential uses, and it's meant to be low density areas that are meant to be 96 single family homes and supporting uses. Similarly,to our future land use map it is not expected 97 to have urban services. What comes with the conditional district application is a site-specific plan, 98 which y'all have in front of you. We have a couple of changes to talk through. There was one 99 change to the site plan since the agenda packet went out, and that is just a note showing that the 100 footprint is conceptual. Y'all can see that reflected in your plans. Also, as part of the application, 101 there's an environmental assessment, a biological inventory,and then anything else that's 102 required with review from reviewing agencies, and those were all deemed complete by staff, so it 103 looks like the specific plan, as we went over has had a change. Y'all can see that in front of you. 104 The yellow page, and then the plan set, both with the same information. The other changes,just 105 before I turn it over to the applicant, there was a change to the conceptual construction projection, 106 and so that just shows you need the maximum square footage.Also,the list of conditions that was 107 agreed to by Carolina Friends School and signed. There is a sheet reflecting those conditions, 108 which did include one additional condition that is listed under No. 6 to capture the traffic changes, 109 and that they agreed to follow NCDOT requirements when they get their driveway permit, and just 110 to make sure we capture that change and that whichever statement of consistency, or Approved 8.6.25 111 inconsistency is moved through tonight,that it has the correct list of conditions. We are able to 112 propose conditions based on state statute. This is part of the non-residential conditional district 113 process. That's the conditional portion of it, and they are addressing needs that come from the 114 project, so we can see it both here, and reflected in your packet. And then I'm going to turn it over 115 to the applicant to go through their portion. 116 117 Karen Cumberbatch: Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you,friends. My name is Karen Cumberbatch, and I am a 118 head of school at Carolina Friend School. Thank you for hearing our request for rezoning,and 1 119 am hoping to share just a little bit about who we are, how we have approached our orientation to 120 being located where we are, as part of your understanding of what we plan to do. So, Carolina 121 Friends School recently celebrated its 60'h anniversary. Peter and Martha Klopfer, our founders 122 are pictured here, and Peter is here with us today. He and his family have been a part of the 123 Orange County community for longer than those 60 years, and so it is with their guidance,their 124 support,and their orientation towards respect for the land, good stewardship of the land that the 125 school was founded, and that we have been participating as a school in Orange County for the 126 last 60 years. For those of you that might not be aware, Carolina Friends School was one of the 127 first intentionally racially integrated schools in the south and began in '64 with one Kindergarten 128 class at Durham Friends meeting, and then grew grade by grade over what was formally Couch 129 Road, and then became known as Friends School Road. You can see some of those early 130 pictures there. One of the key things that has been true for the entire duration of our existence is 131 an orientation towards sustainability, and being good stewards, so what you are seeing here is 132 that some of the ways that we have sought to do that, and some of our current initiatives,for those 133 of you that have known the school for some time,you will know that we have been known as a 134 Quaker school in the woods. That has been really important to us, protecting the land its 135 resources, maintaining the natural forested areas, and working the limit of environmental impact. 136 Those have been priority since our origin, and as we've grown,we've consistently tried to maintain 137 that focus, and so what you see here are some of the things that exist now. On campus,we 138 regularly compost. We look really to how we can lower our impact through efficiency of LED 139 bulbs, and maybe the most significant places our geothermal whenever we have been able,we 140 have incorporated geothermal into our school buildings as well as solar panels. These are things 141 that are just ingrained really in the school,and this comes as a part of our Quaker identity. Our 142 mission says that we are inspired by Quaker values,we teach our children that it's possible to 143 change the world, and so the enhancements that we are envisioning for the future,and over the 144 coming years are meant to help us continue to do that and expand that for even greater impact for 145 students and families who are a part of our community. The bolded elements that you see there 146 are two core parts of our mission and philosophy statements, belief in the spirituality of life, and for 147 us,that implies an effort to instill a sense of awe and reverence for nature. Responsible 148 stewardship of all our resources, intentional teaching of a humble interaction with, rather than an 149 arrogant attitude toward living things. These are part of our core values, and the idea of a belief in 150 the value of simplicity, that includes for us an awareness of the oftentimes, lying between the 151 necessary,and the frivolous, acknowledgment that our capabilities and possessions are gifts to be 152 shared with others, a commitment to create a community learning structure that is sensible and 153 devoid of structural trivia. We really tried to be mindful that whatever we are doing is in a way that 154 is meant to really embrace these concepts, and so that is also part of this thinking as we are 155 looking at the rezoning and additional growth of the campus. We have grown gradually over the 156 years, and these are some pictures over the course of time for those of you that might have 157 known us over time. In 1970,when the campus had approximately 210 students, by 2010 we had 158 grown to 440 students, I know that doesn't seem gradual, but please remember that was over a 159 40-year period,and here since 2017 to the present,we've been approximately 460 to 475 160 students on the campus, and we're seeking to grow that a bit over time, over these next few years. 161 So, let me see if I can switch to the video. 162 163 Karen Cumberbatch played a prepared video for the Board. 164 Approved 8.6.25 165 Karen Cumberbatch: I show you that, so that you can get a sense of the way that we inhabit the space, so as you can 166 see there's been new intentionality to maintain the tree growth as much as possible. It's really a 167 tremendous value to us to be able to look out our windows and see the fullness of the greenery 168 that is available to us. It is really important to us that our kids are outside, that they are 169 experiencing the opportunity to play in the creek and that is something that we hold sacrosanct. 170 We know that the knowledge base that is core to walking lightly on the earth, and also to being a 171 laboratory for us. We intentionally teach our students about environmental stewardship, and our 172 classes from the youngest to the oldest can be seen conducting experiments, observing insects, 173 birds,snakes, all of that, maintaining their actual habitats. That's a part of what we do, and as 1 174 said, outdoor play, all of our students have access to the outdoors throughout the course of the 175 day, again core to what we believe is important for students. We teach our students to be grateful 176 for the ways that being in nature can expand their minds and hearts, and that there's a 177 sacredness in nature that we hope they will come to appreciate and to work to protect. So,for the 178 future,for us, the rezoning will allow us to lean into a future,where we'll continue to live with these 179 same values. These will continue to be the ways that we will approach any additions that might 180 happen,or any changes that might happen, as we have done for the past 60 years, but we'll also 181 be maintaining and enhancing our sustainability efforts. One of our goals is to ensure that all of 182 the new features are built as sustainably as possible, and contain features that will minimize our 183 carbon footprint, and we'll continue with the same uses of the land for educating students with 184 enhanced learning spaces that we have in the past. We're not looking to make any significant 185 changes in our use, and it will allow us to serve more students in the future. You know,which we, 186 which we believe we're a school that has a lot to offer, and so we're looking for ways to be able to 187 serve even more families. Thank you for hearing a little bit about Carolina Friends, and I'm going 188 to pass the mic. 189 190 Ellen Weinstein: Good evening. I'm Ellen Weinstein, an architect at With Architecture, and I've had the privilege of 191 working with Carolina Friends School since the early 1990s. This is the Carolina Friends School 192 campus today. Friends School has served as a steward of its 110 acre campus since the early 193 1960s. The campus is bordered by Friends School Road to the east, Mount Sinai Road to the 194 south,with residential neighbors to the west and north. There is an entrance to campus from 195 Friends School Road indicated with the orange arrow and it is the only active entry into campus. 196 There is service access from Mount Sinai Road it is a gated. It's a gated entry and opened 197 infrequently for campus maintenance. The campus combines wooded areas with open pass- 198 throughs in the southern,and northwestern sections. Natural features include a pond to the north, 199 and a stream that bisects the campus with segments flowing southwest, and southeast, 24 200 buildings currently house classrooms, lab spaces, performance spaces, meeting rooms, and 201 offices. The campus layout flows from the entry point with lower school building nearest the 202 entrance,followed by middle school, upper school, and early school moving southward. Shared 203 campus facilities include a gymnasium,soccer fields, performing arts center, a track, and cross- 204 country trail. Over the past two and a half years, Friends School has undertaken an extensive 205 campus master planning process to envision, and plan for the future. Five-year development 206 goals include a new upper school, expanded drop off and parking areas, and enhanced Mount 207 Sinai Road access as a second campus entry point. According to the traffic impact analysis 208 prepared by Kimberly Horn for this submittal,opening this second entry point,will reduce traffic 209 congestion on Friends School Road, and improve campus access, and safety for all users, and 210 the neighbors. What is the vision for campus in 15 years? Well, this is a little more conceptual, 211 15 years is a long, long, long time, and so it's more conceptual in nature. Friends School 212 anticipates potential need for additions to lower school, middle school, and early school, a 213 gymnasium perhaps near the tennis courts, maintenance building across from the new gym, 214 additional outdoor learning spaces,which play a vital role in providing hands on experiences in 215 nature, and sustainability studies. So, Carolina Friends School's current campus is on the left, 216 vision for 2040 on the right. I think this hopefully shows you the measured growth on the campus, 217 while remaining a school in the woods. I look forward to your questions when the presentation is 218 complete. Thank you. 219 Approved 8.6.25 220 Michael Fiocco: Good evening. My name is Michael Rocco, and I'm a partner with Civil Consultants, and our firm 221 has likewise been working with Friends School for the last 30 years, and given our presentation 222 this evening,we're focusing on a 15-year growth plan. When we approached staff to discuss 223 methods of how to go about doing that,we were advised, and we agree that the best way to do 224 that was to consolidate the zoning which is currently split, into a single zoning district, and that that 225 district be the non-residential conditional district,which would not be subject to SUP,which is a 226 difficult cumbersome process by which to grow your school,or your land projects. We've 227 embraced that and have put together the package for you tonight with all the conditions that we 228 developed through working with staff, and we would be thankful, and ask for your positive 229 recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners, and we can take any questions that you 230 have. 231 232 Lamar Proctor: All right thank you. I'll start down here. Meg, any questions? 233 234 Meg Millard: Okay. I guess first I'm supposed to disclose that I am a former Friends School student myself, 235 went there in the'60s, and both my kids went there, and my niece, and my sister,and my brother, 236 but nobody's going there right now. I do have one question,the second entrance. Would that run 237 a road straight back to the new high school? Is that the idea to have high school traffic enter one 238 way. 239 240 Ellen Weinstein: Yes. So,where the arrow is at the bottom,the grey line, there's a gravel road there now. It's a 241 service road. It would be improved, and that road heads north, and then it curves, and it will be 242 access for upper school students, and potentially also for the early school,so splitting drop-off, 243 and pick up. 244 245 Meg Millard: And where are the closest houses? How would they be impacted, the neighbors. 246 247 Ellen Weinstein: Well right now everyone comes off of Friends School Road,and this actually splits almost 50/50, 248 the number of folks entering. 249 250 Meg Millard: Okay. 251 252 Michael Fiocco: All right,thank you, that's state, and let me just mention,that that it is an existing gravel road 253 today, and in working with the fire department,they're looking for a more durable surface,so that's 254 where the pavement comes in. 255 256 Lamar Proctor: Steve, you got any questions? 257 258 Steve Kaufmann: I'm going to pass right now. 259 260 Lamar Proctor: All right. Whitney? 261 262 Whitney Watson: I have one question. I noticed that you held a neighborhood information meeting. Could you 263 share the results, the comments,the kinds of questions that came up at that meeting? 264 265 Chris Johnston: I'd like to second that. 266 267 Michael Fiocco: It was a very positive meeting, and the one comment that we took away was concerns about 268 lighting. 269 270 Whitney Watson: Light? 271 272 Michael Fiocco: Yes, lightning. 273 Approved 8.6.25 274 Chris Johnston: Just to piggyback on that, I apologize, Cy normally the neighborhood information meeting is in the 275 packet, is there a reason that this one wasn't required to be? I thought that was a requirement as 276 part of the application process. 277 278 Cy Stober: That absolutely is. The information is available through the portal. 279 280 Chris Johnston: The portal. 281 282 Cy Stober: Yep,we'll make sure to include it in the packet in the future. 283 284 Chris Johnston: Appreciate it. Sorry about that. Thank you. Sorry. 285 286 Whitney Watson: And so just to follow up, if there was a concern about lighting, did you undertake, or consider Dark 287 Sky as a guideline for lighting in the campus area? 288 289 Michael Fiocco: That is a possibility,yes, and what we did commit to was trying to find a solution that 290 one, preserved safety while on campus and acknowledge the need and desire for Dark Sky. 291 292 Dolores Bailey: Could you share what Dark Sky is? 293 294 Whitney Watson: Dark Sky is a, I don't know if it's really a standard, but it's a goal to minimize light pollution,so 295 fewer lights, keep them close to the ground, shielded,to make the sky, and the animals who are 296 out at night less impacted by the light. 297 298 Michael Fiocco: One of the key components is the shielding, so that it points the light down, as opposed to not 299 having a shield that lets it cast out. 300 301 Lamar Proctor: Thank you. And, and just a follow up question, then, I think in the packet there was references to 302 particular wavelengths of light that were to be desired, and types of lighting, did I read that 303 correctly. 304 305 Michael Fiocco: Yes,yes you did. There is a wavelength cutoff that is suggested, I can't remember if it's like 7 or 306 800 nanometers. Near infrared. Ultraviolet,sorry. 307 308 Lamar Proctor: And I guess the question is,you all would take that into consideration when applying for additional 309 permits or further expansion or modification of the facilities. 310 311 Karen Cumberbatch: Yes, and I would say if you're ever on our campus, actually, at night,we already are pretty mindful 312 of the amount of light that we have and the impacts for our current section of campus that we use, 313 and so,yes, that would definitely be the same guiding principals that we would use in any future 314 construction. I was reminded that in the neighborhood information meeting, there was one 315 comment that was made about an existing light, and our plan is already to make the amendments 316 that would be needed to ensure that we were managing the light as effectively as possible. 1 317 guess we said this in the neighborhood information meeting,and if it's worth saying out loud here, 318 we're not the kind of school that's going to be lighting fields,and we're not going to have night 319 games, and there's not going to be any of those kinds of things that would be adding to any light 320 pollution or extreme use, so that is also something that we are committed to. 321 322 Lamar Proctor: Right, and I think it's also conditioned too that no lighting will be provided on existing or proposed 323 athletic fields or courts, so there won't be general mis-lighting, and that's a condition of the 324 conditional zoning. Okay. 325 326 Lamar Proctor: Chris? 327 328 Chris Johnston: Oh, I apologize. Whitney, are you all done with yours? Approved 8.6.25 329 330 Whitney Watson: Sorry. Yeah. 331 332 Chris Johnston: I jumped in on yours, and I apologize for that. This is the first time I feel like we've seen this far 333 out, the 15 years and that sort of thing. If they,for whatever reason,fail to install a west campus 334 gym in 15 years,do they even have to come back and reapply for the conditional access or 335 something to be changed and updated to 20 years,or whatever the case may be, or is this kind of 336 a projection? How hard are these numbers? 337 338 Cy Stober: The state law has very hard number in vested rights for a non-phase development of 7 years at 339 present. 340 341 Chris Johnston: Okay. 342 343 Cy Stober: So that's our vesting period for a conditional zoning case. We're extending that through a 344 condition, so at the end of 15 years they are vested rights for that particular use and that particular 345 construction have expired and, yeah, they would need to go back through the zoning process 346 because the condition would have been exhausted. 347 348 Chris Johnston: Okay. Thank you. That's my only question. 349 350 Lamar Proctor: All right. Statler? 351 352 Statler Gilfillen: I'm reading through this. You or your department have made a number of comments in here. 1 353 believe all of them are pretty much consistent that this is a positive direction. Technically,what 354 they're trying to do and approach this. Is there anything that I could've been missing that your 355 department has done that might be a conflict? 356 357 Cy Stober: I would defer to Lauren, because she's more intimately familiar with the application, but, no, I've 358 attended the development advisory committee meetings. They've been very responsive to the 359 comments from the county and DOT and responsive to the community comments as well, but 360 Lauren, I'll give you the floor. 361 362 Statler Gilfillen: What I'm seeing as an architect in the level of detail and what they presented, and what they've 363 gone through in the presentation tonight. They seem to be working very hard to conform and 364 make this work in positive ways. That's what I'm seeing in the paperwork and the presentation. 365 366 Cy Stober: Lauren, in your opinion,can you offer your view? 367 368 Lauren Honeycutt: That is correct. They did go through the development advisory committee and did receive 369 comments that required revisions. All revisions were made and complete before they moved 370 forward in the process. They're here tonight,and we're bringing it before the board with a staff 371 recommendation because of our assessment of completeness. I actually have a couple more 372 slides that could speak to that. I know we jumped into questions, but if we can kind of look 373 through those that speak to ways that this has complied with our requirements, including public 374 notification,which was sent out by staff, as well as signs posted, and public notification on our 375 web page, and then this is the staff analysis we're thinking about here. Staff did analyze that their 376 application was both in compliance with zoning atlas and unified development ordinance 377 amendments,the requirements from those, requirements for conditional districts nested within 378 that, and then also the requirements at large for schools. So,we looked at the comprehensive 379 plan and making sure that everything looks consistent. This one is being brought into compliance 380 with current zoning because the current use is only able to be through this non-residential 381 conditional district or another conditional district process, so that's why it's being brought forward 382 to bring that into compliance, and then they complied with providing environmental assessments, 383 which staff reviewed and determined that there was no significant impact,which is how we end up Approved 8.6.25 384 at this review process.We've come through all of these steps, and that's why you're hearing from 385 the applicant tonight.And then echoing again that it's our recommendation that you hear the 386 application, deliberate on the proposal and then consider the staff recommendation,that the 387 proposal is consistent with the comprehensive plan and the ordinance and then make a 388 recommendation to BOCC,which that hearing will most likely come in, tentatively, September 4th 389 hearing,and that's all we have from staff. I think that answered our question and moved us 390 forward in the slides. Did you have anything else for us staff? 391 392 Lamar Proctor: Anyone? 393 394 Dolores Bailey: Quick question, and just to anybody. In the yellow version, Option No. 3 says no burning of land 395 clearing waste shall occur. How then will you get rid of the wood waste as you move trees? 1 396 guess I'm asking the applicant. 397 398 Michael Fiocco: The commitment is that that will not occur. 399 400 Dolores Bailey: Right. 401 402 Michael Fiocco: So,the trees will be removed, hauled off, chipped, often times, and can be used around campus. 403 404 Dolores Bailey: Okay. My second question for you then is, you mentioned right now you're two different zonings 405 and so you're trying to combine them. What are the two zonings? 406 407 Michael Fiocco: A planned district housing and rural buffer. 408 409 Dolores Bailey: And so, the housing piece is going to go away? 410 411 Michael Fiocco: The conditional district that we're going to allows for residential use as well. 412 413 Dolores Bailey: Okay. And are you all planning on doing any residential? 414 415 Michael Fiocco: There will be some residential. There's residential on campus already today, and so those will 416 continue to be used. 417 418 Dolores Bailey: And in the 15-year plan, I don't have any idea of how much housing you've got now, but housing is 419 my thing, so, in the plans, going towards the 15-year, are you going to house more? 420 421 Michael Fiocco: Right now, there are no plans for new houses. It's plans to occupy the existing houses and use 422 them for educational purposes. 423 424 Dolores Bailey: Okay. Would you consider, in the 15-year plan, doing some more housing? 425 426 Michael Fiocco: We have thought about doing some housing that could be used for visiting teachers or existing 427 teachers. 428 429 Dolores Bailey: Okay. 430 431 Michael Fiocco: So,we have thought about that, and we thought that some of the structures that are already on 432 campus could be those buildings. 433 434 Dolores Bailey: There's such a shortage of housing, and since you have that already going it would be wonderful, 435 even if you just created housing for your teaching staff. 436 437 Michael Fiocco: Yeah. We have definitely thought about that. 438 Approved 8.6.25 439 Dolores Bailey: Okay. Thank you. 440 441 Lamar Proctor: All right. Charity? No?Any other questions for staff or the applicant? 442 443 Cy Stober: Mr. Chair? 444 445 Lamar Proctor: Yes. 446 447 Cy Stober: Just a point of clarification to Ms. Bailey's comment. Burning of waste is prohibited by the county 448 ordinance, not the unified development ordinance, and is enforced by both the Fire Marshall and 449 the sheriffs office,so it's a standard, it's part of the solid waste ordinance.This is handled by solid 450 waste as well as enforced by the sheriffs office and the Fire Marshall, so it's nice to have it in 451 black and white as a condition as well, but it already, there's a backup of the county ordinance. 452 453 Dolores Bailey: Thank you. 454 455 Lamar Proctor: We do have a sign-in sheet that is sometimes not clear on who wants to speak so, at this time, 456 hearing no further questions, I would like to move into public comment. Peter, did you want to 457 address the board? You don't have to if you don't want to, but you signed in,so we want to give 458 you the opportunity. 459 460 Peter Klopfer: Thank you very much. I really have nothing to add to what school's heads already told you. The 461 plan does not entail any major expansion of the school, so I'm assuming it's not going to pose any 462 kind of threat to our neighbors and, certainly, as an ecologist, I am particularly sensitive to the 463 issues of night pollution, of water flow, and the light,and I'm quite satisfied that the planning by the 464 architects have taken the biological considerations that are professionally important to me, of very 465 carefully consideration, and I don't see any threat to the environment that the proposed changes 466 would present. 467 468 Lamar Proctor: All right. Thank you. Then I have Mark Kuhn. Did you want to address the board? 469 470 Mark Coon: I'm the outgoing board clerk at Carolina Friends School. Also does volunteer for a number of 471 years and I've been a school parent and am now a school grandparent, so I've seen now four 472 children from my own family go through the school, and in getting to know the school community 473 and finding the very beneficial ways in which the students are schooled, I'm just pleased to see 474 the school moving forward to continue its sustenance into the future, and this is part of that. 475 476 Lamar Proctor: All right. Thank you. And then Andrew Goolsby. 477 478 Andrew Goolsby: No. 479 480 Lamar Proctor: And then the other sign-in participants were the presenters, so I don't think there's any more 481 public comment needed. As chair, I will just say that I think Carolina Friends School has been a 482 longstanding fabulous neighbor and part of the Orange County community in starting up the board 483 discussion on this, and it doesn't appear to me that there's, like Peter said,there's no major 484 substantial changes, it just seems to be a very organic growth of the school and it's,you know, it 485 seems completely consistent with our comprehensive plan and the kind of neighbor and good 486 neighbor that we want to support in Orange County.At this point, I think we should have any 487 discussion, or any statements that any board members want to make, or any discussion about 488 changing conditions or anything else before we move into a motion on the statement of 489 consistency. 490 491 Chris Johnston: I don't think I have any reason that we would want to fiddle with things in the periphery here. 492 That's me personally though. 493 Approved 8.6.25 494 Statler Gilfillen: As an architect planner, I would reinforce that. 495 496 Lamar Proctor: Okay. 497 498 Dolores Bailey: As a housing educator, I would encourage some more housing. 499 500 Lamar Proctor: Do you all have any additions?With that, I will entertain a motion on adopting the statement of 501 consistency of the proposed zoning atlas amendment as printed in Attachment 6. Do I have a 502 motion? 503 504 Statler Gilfillen: I'll make a motion. 505 506 Lamar Proctor: And do I have a second? 507 508 Dolores Bailey: I'll second it. 509 510 Lamar Proctor: I'll give Dolores the second. All in favor, tell me if I'm wording this correctly, of adopting the 511 statement of consistent and recommending the proposed zoning atlas amendment to the Board of 512 County Commissioners as printed out and provided in Attachment 6. All in favor, raise your hands 513 or say aye. 514 515 MOTION BY Statler Gilfillen to approve the Statement of Consistency. Seconded by Dolores Bailey. 516 517 MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY 518 519 Lamar Proctor: Seeing none opposed,then the statement of consistency is recommended to the Board of County 520 Commissioners for the zoning change of these parcels. Does that cover it, Cy? And thank you all 521 so much for being here and presenting, and thank you for being succinct, and for all that you do 522 for this community and for young people. I know you all are doing good work. 523 524 AGENDA ITEM 9: ADJOURNMENT 525 526 Lamar Proctor: Do I have a motion to adjourn? 527 528 Dolores Bailey: So moved. 529 530 Lamar Proctor: All right, Dolores. Second? 531 532 Chris Johnston: Second. 533 534 Lamar Proctor: Second, Chris. All in favor, say I or raise your hand. 535 536 MOTION BY Dolores Bailey to adjourn. Seconded by Chris Johnston. 537 538 MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY 539 540 Lamar Proctor: Seeing none opposed,we are adjourned. 541 The meeting adjourned at 7:48 PM