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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 9-b <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 17, 1998 <br />SUBJECT: Efland-Cheeks Community School Park final plan approval <br />DEPARTMENT: PURCHASING AND Public Hearing: No <br />CENTRAL SERVICES Budget Amendment Reqd? No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />PAM JONES, ext. 2650 <br />Telephone Number- <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 967-9251 <br />Mebane 227-2031 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />PURPOSE: To consider final approval of the plan for the Efland-Cheeks Community <br />School Park. <br />BACKGROUND: The Board reviewed preliminary plans for the Efland Cheeks <br />Community School park in August 1998. The primary concern with the plan was that it <br />did not include lighting of the basketball courts nor accommodations for future lighting of <br />the athletic fields. The revised plans presented to the Board for consideration at this <br />point now include both of those components. The specifications for the basketball <br />lighting have been included and the conduit locations for the playing fields plotted onto <br />the plans. <br />The consultant continues to express concern for the budgetary impact of the lighting <br />work. In order to maintain flexibility in the event of significant cost overruns and to <br />isolate the cost of the lighting, the consultant has been requested to include the lighting <br />package in the bid for Phase I work as an add alternate. <br />The only other modification of the plan from what was presented in August is the use of <br />a landscape the in lieu of asphalt proposed for use in the parking area closest to the <br />basketball courts. The impervious surfaces were exceeding the 12% limit and the use <br />of landscape the was seen as a way to not only address that issue, but to also improve <br />the aesthetics of the area. As a point of reference, a similar application is in use at the <br />Carrboro Farmer's Market. <br />The Planning Department's review time runs approximately five weeks. In order to keep <br />the project on task, the plans and specifications were submitted to them on October 26. <br />Likewise, the documents are under review by County staff as well. Any comments or <br />