2020-06-18 Leeward Exh A (AMEND USE 05-001)

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plans as to what they may be in the future. Frankly, I think the idea of expanding the student enrollment, those numbers that were anticipated in the Use Permit is probably very unrealistic at this time. But for the purpose of this meeting, we're simply asking for a time extension. The school has raised a significant amount of money to begin to make these improvements, but I think they need now to reassess what they anticipate will be their student body enrollment going forward. And that has not been done at this time. But I just want to kind of put the Commission on notice that there's a strong possibility that the applicant will come back and revisit this Use Permit in the future. CARR SMITH: Are you suggesting that we consider it at a later date, or not? MOOERS: That would be, yes, but all we're looking at today is a time extension CARR SMITH: Okay. Anything else, Greg? MOOERS: No, I'm just prepared to answer any questions that you may have. CARR SMITH: Okay. Okay, go ahead, Mike. VITOUSEK: Yeah, that kind of goes to my question. You know, the nature of school development is much different than the nature of, like, you know, for a profit housing or commercial development and, you know, trying to put a school on the same time frame as you would one of those types of projects, to me, doesn't necessarily make sense. My question is, is that amount of time enough? MOOERS: I believe it is. The applicants have raised a significant amount of money and are ready to construct. So the financial burden has been relieved, but the question really is, I think over the next few months they're going to have to re-envision what they want that school to be, what they seethe student enrollment being going forward. And I think just being pretty knowledgeable about independent schools is that they're going to take a far more conservative approach, as far as the number of students that they can anticipate. We don't know what's going to happen with school this year; if they're going to be face-to-face or if it's going to be online instructions. And, clearly, those decisions will impact people's ability to and interest in enrolling in independent schools. So I think there's just a number of factors that we don't know yet, but fortunately, for the Parker - - -position financially now, that they are prepared to proceed. So I think that the time limit that we're asking for is certainly adequate, and in all likelihood, Commissioner, we'll probably be back at some point with an updated master plan that we anticipate going forward. VITOUSEK: Okay. CARR SMITH: Greg, can you address Mike's previous comment about a possible discovery in 2011 or 12? MOOERS: I am not aware of, of such a discovery but, obviously, if a discovery was made, then we would certainly have to comply with whatever the treatment plan approved by State Historic Preservation Division is, and that would have to be reflected in any plans and, with the 5 EXHIBIT A