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Young Ivy picks up students from local schools,transports them to the site, provides math,language arts,world history, Spanish, Chinese, art, robotics and 3D printing (which are recent additions),and homework help when that is needed. If the student's parents wish,students can slip on TaeKwon Do gear and go for lessons, or pick up their instruments and go to music classes,or put on a tutu and be walked down to ballet. If they need dental work,the dentist is just next door. Parents pick up students between 5 pm and 6:3o,and can pretty much relax thereafter because many of their offsprings' needs have been met. As testament to this,Young Ivy serves several family groups with multiple children enrolled. But what is missing from this picture? What is missing is a space where the young students can get some movement and fresh air, as an antidote for the many hours in a day they spend indoors with talking heads. We hope to remedy the deficiency when Planning has given approval to this playground proposal. The proposal before you has already addressed many of the planning issues that have arisen, as they have arisen in process. What you see now is a fully-developed plan for an attractive,safely fenced area with a play structure on the east side of the building,with all the requirements of code met. It will be effectively invisible to the majority of Oak Hills' retail customers,and there will be vines on the fence to screen the play area from neighborhood or parking lot view. The issues that appear to deter approval are 1)the location of the playground in what is considered a utility zone, 2) noise, and 3) safety,which I will address below. I will address 1) and 3)together. The amount of available space for the construction of the playground is more than adequate,but the playground's location is part of what is considered the utility zone, and the issue of truck traffic is valid. We have researched and studied the matter of truck traffic. What we learned is represented on a simple chart I have provided to you. [[See Appendix A at the foot of this document]] It is worth saying that no business purpose of the utility zone would be infringed by the presence of the playground. Of the entities at Ivy's end of the shopping center, there are few storefronts that receive any backdoor truck deliveries at all: Pet supplies deliveries do not use this area. Gymboree,TaeKwon Do,the dentist,the music academy,the needlepoint store, etc.,do not get back door deliveries. Of those remaining, Subway,we are assured, gets one delivery from central distribution per week,early in the morning,