NS Easement - Sanitary Sewer Easements for CHCCS Elementary #10

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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: October 9, 2007 Action Agenda Item No. G}- - SUBJECT: Granting of Sanitary Sewer Easements for CHCCS Elementary School #10 DEPARTMENT: County Attorney, ERCD PUBIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT INFORMATION CONTACT: Geof Gledhill, 732-2196 1. Vicinity Map /Planned Sewer Line David Stancil, 245-2590 Pam Jones, 245-2650 PURPOSE: To consider approval of sanitary sewer easements and related documents for the sewer line to serve Elementary School #10, and authorize representatives from Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) and Orange County to work with adjoining property owners to the south to secure off-site easements. BACKGROUND: Elementary School #10 received Town of Carrboro Conditional Use Permit approval in early 2007, and construction began on the school at the County-owned Twin Creeks site in the late spring of this year. Provision of sanitary sewer service to the school requires extension of an existing Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) sewer outfall from Glen Ridge Townhomes and the lake Hogan Farms area to the south. An extension of this line has been designed and permitted by Corley, Redfoot and Zack, engineering firm for CHCCS. The design has been approved and permitted by OWASA and the State. In order to continue construction on the sewer line (a short segment appears to be under construction), sewer easements need to be recorded that bring the line to the school. This includes a long segment of gravity sewer on the west side of Jones Creek within the County's Twin Creeks property (park and educational campus sections). The line also requires easements be recorded and obtained from MI Homes (owner/developer of the recently- approved Ballentine subdivision to the south), and from the Glen Ridge Townhomes Homeowners Association (where an existing easement needs a minor modification). The proposed easement on the Twin Creeks property follows the west side of Jones Creek before crossing the creek near the point where the creek turns westward, and thence to the