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recommendations. Over the years there have been many potential discussions of uses of the Greene Tract and there have been no decisions made. One would be open space to be protected by conservation easement. Another option is affordable housing, with acreage to be placed in a land trust. Another option is for a future elementary school site for CHCCS. There are two attachments with detail of the history of the property. After everything has been repaid, there will be a little over$1 million that has been repaid back to the Solid Waste Fund. Mayor Chilton asked how much land the CHCCS needs for a school site here. Michael Talbert said that eight years ago the CHCCS discussed needing 10-12 acres. Mayor Chilton asked about the acreage for affordable housing. Michael Talbert said that it was about 18 acres. Commissioner Gordon said that OCS and CHCCS projections are in the packets. For CHCCS, the needs projected over the next 10 years are for an elementary school in 2012-13, a middle school in 2017-18, and a high school in 2020-21. She said that there are not a lot of school sites identified. CHCCS staff inember Bill Mullin, Executive Director of School Facilities, said that there is also another elementary school needed in 2017. Alderman Gist said that just because there is land does not mean that it has to be used. There will be future generations that might need it. Chair Jacobs pointed out the possible school construction schedules on page 2. He said that he has never heard any particular opposition to the school site at the Greene Tract. He said that a lot of decisions were not closed and it would be good to see if everyone is still generally on the same page. Mayor Kleinschmidt said that Chapel Hill, after having invited Carrboro and Orange County to the table, did go through a three-year small area planning process with the Rogers Road neighborhood, including the Greene Tract. He said that there is a plan that is adopted in the Chapel Hill comprehensive plan, but it is not in this document. He suggested that everyone look at the Chapel Hill Comprehensive Plan and Small Area Plan for Rogers Road. He said that people that live next to the Greene Tract have already talked about what they would like to see and Chapel Hill adopted it. Commissioner Gordon said that she wanted to emphasize that there are not very many school sites. In terms of the Chapel Hill Comprehensive Plan, she would like to look it over in more detail. She also agreed with Alderman Gist in that it would be good to have some preserved land. Mayor Chilton said that one of the practical issues years ago is that the road access to this property is poor. He said that it sounds really great to say that all these things will be built here, but the reality is that there would be some significant investment with infrastructure to even make it possible to develop. Mayor Kleinschmidt said that they should have the Chapel Hill SAP in front of them while they are discussing this. Michael Talbert said that page 26 of the abstract has a map of the Rogers Road existing and proposed sewer. Alderman Gist said that everyone has spent lots of time on committees wondering what would happen to their work. She apologized to everyone that worked on the small area plan. She hopes that this will be fixed. Council Member Harrison said that he has done a lot of work on small area plans in the past. He said that there was a huge investment of time and expertise from elected officials in this small area plan. Alderman Lavelle said that this is a good example of the importance of institutional history.