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School district seeks conditional‑use permit to convert Pine Middle School to new 850‑student elementary campus
Summary
School‑district consultants presented plans to demolish the existing Pine Middle School building and build a ~103,000 sq ft PreK–5 elementary school with room for approximately 850 students, three‑lane drop‑off circulation, separate bus loading and site screening to reduce impacts on adjacent residential areas.
Stacy Huggin of Wood Rogers, representing the school district, described a proposal to remove the existing Pine Middle School structure and construct a new two‑story elementary school sized at about 103,000 square feet with capacity for about 850 students. "We are bringing in a new school that will serve a little more than 800 students in terms of capacity," Huggin told the board.
The plan would demolish the existing 105,000‑square‑foot middle‑school building, rebuild parent drop‑off, bus loading areas and playfields, and add landscaping and screening. The design calls for separate bus loading and parent drop‑off circulation (three parent drop‑off lanes on Neil Road), staff parking and a bus loading area on the north side at Filbert Road, and 6‑foot concrete masonry (CMU) walls adjacent to existing residences to mitigate noise and light.
Presenters said the district conducted community forums earlier in the process and had rescheduled a neighborhood meeting (postponed for weather) for the evening following the advisory board meeting to collect additional local input. Board members expressed concerns about nighttime lighting at the Filbert/Neil Road crossing, the presence and timing of crosswalk push‑buttons, the safety of pedestrian crossings for students and whether neighborhood noticing was adequate for the rescheduled session. Presenters said they will evaluate safe‑routes provisions, crossing controls and sidewalk connectivity and will take resident feedback into account.
The district indicated the new elementary is a permitted use in the public‑facilities zoning but, because the proposed capacity exceeds 400 students, the project requires a conditional use permit to address enrollment and residential adjacency. Staff said they are responding to city review comments and now anticipate the project will reach planning commission in May rather than April.
What happens next: the district is holding a neighborhood meeting to gather feedback and will continue to work with city staff on conditional‑use permit conditions, safe‑routes design and traffic/circulation details ahead of planning commission review.
