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didn't put in sidewalks. I know that when we had the Orange Grave Road Access Management <br />Plan, we realized much to our surprise that Cedar Ridge High School has no sidewalks in front <br />of it, so that, even though it was built three years ago, that we had not been thinking proactively <br />enough about pedestrian access. We don't want to lead people to walk out onto new 86 with <br />cars driving by at 55-65 miles an hour, but looking forward like this, these stub outs and the <br />possibilities of future connectivity, I think that's the purpose. <br />I had a different question. As you know, we sit here periodically and we accept roads for <br />public maintenance for private benefit all the time. I'm wondering why we wouldn't make it a <br />condition that the application be made to North Carolina Department of Transportation to accept <br />Story Lane far public maintenance as part of this approval. Is there any reason not to do that? <br />Geaf Gledhill: There's no reason why you couldn't do that. I would defer to planners <br />as to the reason why you shouldn't do that. <br />Craig Benedict: If so instructed, it could be made part of the recommendation. <br />Commissioner Gordon: On page 62, Orange County Smart Growth Attributes, Far <br />Use With Private and Public Projects (Unadopted}, I think I brought this up before and <br />remember Commissioner Foushee bringing this up before. I think that if we're going to be using <br />these smart growth attributes, which I think we intend to do, we ought to formally adopt them. I <br />don't know if these are the right ones, I haven't really tried to figure that out, but we should try to <br />figure out what the smart growth attributes are going to be as it's come up with this project, it <br />came up with the Durham Technical Community College project, it's came up with other <br />projects, and then the whole question is who has to pay for it. That whole issue needs to be <br />worked out and we need to put that on a future agenda for a formal discussion. <br />Chair Jacobs: We'll try to put it an the May 4t" agenda. <br />Commissioner Gordon: I think it's important to figure out how the school standards <br />work in this regard because I think that the two school districts may have different ways of <br />proceeding. I know that Chapel Hill schools have high performance standards. Well, of course, <br />all of the Orange County schools are built for ten years. We should, if we're going to have <br />County buildings and other buildings, we ought to look at the entire range of what should be <br />included and have a formal process or adopt it. <br />Chair Jacobs: In effect to your point, we might want to add to the joint meeting of the <br />two school boards, and as part of that we were going to report on the school collaboration <br />group's work and the school construction standards. We might want to just attach this as <br />unadopted as an information item, so that the full range of thought that has gone into school <br />standards is at least before us as we move forward into formalizing some kind of <br />recommendation which that group would hope to do by the fall. <br />Commissioner Gordon: All I was saying was to just move it along sa that if it is not <br />possible on May 4t" to get it all figured out, they would have an update or status. <br />Commissioner Halkiotis: Still on page 62 that Commissioner Gordon just brought up, <br />under Transportation, "Sidewalks will be provided along the front of the school and out to NC <br />86." Are we talking about the existing Stanback school ar this alternative school? It was <br />answered only this SUP. So, there is na sidewalk from the new school that goes to $6, but <br />we're going to put a sidewalk from the alternative school out to NC 86. And the estimated cast <br />of this is what? Because this, in my mind, is an unfunded mandate, which ultimately we're <br />going to fund, but it's going to come out of our budget. So what's the cost on this sidewalk, <br />even though there is no sidewalk and there was na insistence an a sidewalk back in 1992 when <br />the plans were approved for the current A. L. Stanback middle school, there was no sidewalk <br />put in, but we're going to insist on a sidewalk for this alternative school even though no one will <br />be walking to the alternative school because they're going to be bussed. Which seems to be a <br />no-brainer to me. I don't understand it. No one's walking to the school, but we're going to have <br />a sidewalk to the school. <br />