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37 The Facility In looking at the attached drawings and plans, you will note that the Creative Learning Center will be located on a seven acre parcel of land between Blackwood Mountain Road and Manor Drive with a vehicle entrance from Millhouse Road. If you were to stand on the east side of Millhouse road and look across to the Creative Learning Center, you would have to look twice to see it, because it will be (like Heartwood residences) nestled into and environmentaIIy like the terrain. The gravelled parking lot will be at the south end of the site. The building will front onto the baseball field. Natural settings and tree lined boundaries will be maintained. On the inside of the 10,000 square foot building, a perimeter of meeting rooms, class rooms and offices encircle the multi- purpose main gathering space. The main gathering space can be a basketball floor one moment, a yoga class the next, a banquet hall for a wedding or a dance floor for square and contra dancing. There will be no smoking or illegal drugs allowed on the premises. Also, other than weddings or other excepted events, alcohol will not be served at the facility. This facility was designed by John Hartley; Architect/Builder whose company Environmentally Responsive Shelter (ERS), designed and constructed the community, residences and facilities that comprise Heartwood on Blackwood Mountain. It is John's goal to maintain the Heartwood harmony of design in all Creative Learning Center buildings, and invites you to address your input or questions to him at the ERS offices, next to Sunrise Market on Highway 86 or by phone at 942 -0077. Facility Capabilities As mentioned earlier activities inside the facility can be of vast variety from quiet conversational gatherings, to learning music, to community meetings, classes and dances: Inside, the facility will have one large meeting room and four smaller meeting rooms. Each of the smaller rooms will be able to support specialized activities such as: Movement classes, Art and Music. The facility will also be wired to provide the latest in aidido -video technology for meetings and entertainment. Outside, the Creative Learning Center will offer outdoor activities for children and adults ranging from a play structure, horseshoe pit, volley ball to baseball at the adjacent ball park. Further, HEARTH owns an additional seven acres above and behind the Dickinson farm, and has access to an adjacent fifteen acres to accommodate special activities or expansion as the needs arise.