§ 38-1752. Applicability of school site guidelines, criteria and standards.

(a)

The following are presumed to meet all requirements for consistency with the county's comprehensive plan, and with the school site guidelines, criteria and standards set forth in these regulations:

(1)

School sites owned, under option or reserved in approved plans prior to October 14, 1996.

(2)

Placement of temporary classrooms or portables or relocatables at existing school sites.

(3)

Renovation or construction on existing school sites, except for:

a.

changes in the primary use (for example, a renovation changing a middle school to a high school) and

b.

construction that increases permanent student capacity by an amount that exceeds fifteen (15) percent of the highest enrollment at the school during the ten-year period prior to commencement of construction, unless such construction consolidates or merges two (2) or more elementary schools or special needs programs that, prior to consolidation, would have less than five hundred fifty (550) permanent student capacity and the resulting school would otherwise (i) meet the acreage requirements set forth in section 38-1755(a)(1) for the resulting permanent student capacity of the consolidated school, and (ii) not change the primary use of any of the consolidated schools.

(b)

For purposes of coordination, the school board shall submit information to the county on sites, renovation or construction described in subsection (a), but such submission shall not be subject to conditions unless voluntarily agreed to by the school board.

(c)

Renovation or construction on a sites that is not presumed to be consistent as described in subsection (a) and construction of a stadiums on a site, including a site identified in subsection (a), shall be subject to the county's comprehensive plan and the school site guidelines, criteria and standards.

(Ord. No. 96-31, § 2, 10-8-96; Ord. No. 2017-06 , § 1, 4-25-17)