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2 <br />One of the schools the Seminary has negotiated with has had a total of fewer than five police calls <br />in their four years of existence. The Seminary anticipates that any other charter school tenant <br />would have a similar public safety profile. The Seminary will be sharing its campus with this <br />school, and will not lease to a tenant that is likely to cause problems for the Seminary or the <br />neighborhood. <br />United Seminary has been a part of its neighborhood for over 50 years. In a perfect world, the <br />Seminary campus would continue to serve as the home of an active residential Seminary <br />indefinitely. However, that will not happen. As is the case with most graduate school students, <br />Seminary students are rarely full-time on-campus students. There is simply no demand for, no <br />need for, and no way to sustain a 14-acre Seminary campus. Some other shared use, for the campus <br />must be found as soon as possible. <br />The City’s Zoning Ordinance allows a variety of institutional uses on the Seminary campus, <br />including “colleges, libraries, museums, schools, churches and similar public uses.” The use on <br />this list which would generate the least traffic and have the least impact on the neighborhood is a <br />K-8 school. A K-8 school will generate less than 15 buses per day and there will be no high school <br />or college drivers with the attendant public safety concerns and parking issues. Nor will there be <br />members of the general public travelling to and from the campus, as there would be with a library, <br />museum or similar use. All traffic to and from the campus will be serving the Seminary and the <br />school, each of which will be able to control allowable routes to and from the campus. Virtually <br />every other possible use for the Seminary Campus would generate more traffic than a K-8 school, <br />and would provide little or no opportunity to control how traffic travels to and from the campus. <br />Converting a portion of the Seminary Campus to a K-8 school will generate less traffic and parking <br />demand than the Seminary itself generated when its student population was higher and all students <br />were either living on or traveling to and from the campus on a daily basis. The combined Seminary <br />and 300 student K-8 school will also have far fewer students, and generate far less traffic and <br />parking demand, than either the 844 student Bel Air Elementary School located approximately 6 <br />blocks to the east on 5th Street NW, or the 826 student Highview Middle School located <br />approximately 6 blocks to the northeast of the Seminary campus. <br />United Seminary has a long history in New Brighton. The Seminary wants to remain in New <br />Brighton, wants to continue to be a good neighbor, and wants to find a way out of its current <br />situation which works for both the Seminary and the neighborhood. Leasing a portion of the <br />campus for use as a K-8 school enables the Seminary to stay in a way that will have very little <br />impact on the neighborhood.