Whaley Platt school site

The school district's general counsel asked for a continuance, citing city policies requiring roughly 20-acre school sites with arterial road access that the 8-acre site doesn't meet.

The district's planning director explained the 20-acre request was always made but the district only later learned the county labeled it advisory rather than conditional.

A resident urged the council to think about school capacity and long-term transportation impacts as the area keeps growing.

The developer's education-law attorney stressed a charter school is a public school that doesn't require 20 acres, and that approval wouldn't end negotiations with the district.