additional land must be considered for expansion. In order to maximize buildable area and proximity to <br />the residential neighborhood, the other tax lots are evaluated from south to north. <br />The southernmost of the small tax lots is 10.0 total acres, of which 0.3 is constrained by the Special <br />Flood Hazard Area. The 9.7 buildable acres of this site connects the two portions of the largest tax lot to <br />create a contiguous buildable area of 30.1 acres. As a total amount, this meets the requirement for 25 <br />acres. However, the configuration of this area narrows to a smallest width of only 230 feet just north of <br />the Special Flood Hazard Area, and continues north in an extended area of 321 feet wide from that point <br />1,463 feet north to Clear Lake Road, narrowing even further to 150 feet in width for the last 300 feet. <br />This area of narrow width reduces the buildable area to 20.5 acres, which is insufficient for school siting. <br />The next southernmost tax lot is 10.0 unconstrained acres, which if added to the two lots evaluated <br />above, would result in a 54.1 acre expansion, of which 40.1 is unconstrained. The addition of this 10 acre <br />tax lot would reduce the length of the narrow portion of the site to approximately 1,028 feet. With the <br />narrow portion removed from consideration as buildable, the remaining area is 33.2 acres of buildable <br />land (see map "Fourth Priority Land: Other Site Characteristics"), enough to meet the School District's <br />needs. <br />Given that these three tax lots of site P4.5 are sufficient to meet all of the site characteristics needed for <br />the proposed school expansion, the two additional tax lots in the northwestern corner of the land <br />owned by Bethel School District are in excess of the District's needs. Therefore, that portion of the site <br />P4.5 will not be considered for expansion at this time. <br />Appendix A to Findings May 2017 Page 24 <br />