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Date Application Received: April 19, 2017 <br />Date Application Considered as Complete: April 24, 2017 <br />60 -Day Review Period Expires: June 24, 2017 <br />To: Chair Thiesse and Planning Commission Members <br />Doug Reeder, Interim City Administrator <br />From: Jeremy Barnhart, Community Development Director <br />Date: May 15, 2017 <br />Council <br />Exhibit D <br />17-3941 <br />Subject: #17-3941, Orono Public Schools/ City of Orono, 685 N Old Crystal Bay Road, <br />Text Amendment: School District zoning <br />Public Hearing <br />Application Summary: The applicant and the City are joint partners on the development of an <br />ordinance that would establish a zoning district to govern the public school improvements. <br />Staff Recommendation: Planning Department Staff recommends support of the ordinance, <br />recognizing that changes may occur before the items is reviewed by the City Council. <br />Background <br />The Orono High School, Middle School, Intermediate school, Elementary School, accessory <br />educational, gathering, athletic and activity fields and courts, and parking areas are all located <br />along Old Crystal Bay Road, and all are on property zoned RR -113, which is Rural Residential, 2 <br />acre minimum lot size. Schools is a listed conditional use; any modification of the facilities <br />requires a conditional use permit amendment. This is problematic as use of the schools, signage <br />needs, traffic impacts of a school are vastly different that typical rural residential uses. Strict <br />application of rural residential standards to a school use may be unnecessarily onerous. <br />"School zoning" was the 17 1h highest priority item identified last fall. <br />Applicable Regulations: <br />78-418 Conditional Uses <br />(11) Schools, daycare centers, uses accessory to a high school. <br />a. Pre -kindergarten, primary and secondary public schools and private <br />schools with a curriculum similar to a pre -kindergarten, primary or secondary <br />school. Schools may include before and after school care for students. <br />b. Daycare centers, nursery schools and similar programs that are not <br />associated with a public or private school and serve pre -kindergarten children. <br />c. Indoor ice arenas accessory to a high school provided the arena, including <br />accessory uses, is: <br />1. Located on the same tax parcel as the high school to which it is <br />accessory and is owned by the local school district; <br />2. Not separated from the high school building by a public road; <br />3. Operated by the school district or by a nonprofit organization; and <br />