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7 <br /> Efland-Cheeks School Park <br /> F SITE ANALYSIS <br /> GENERAL SITE INFORMATION <br /> The proposed park project is an 27.5 acre site located in Efland, North Carolina. The <br /> park project is a joint development project between the Efland-Cheeks Elementary <br /> School and the Orange County Parks & Recreation Department. The main objective <br /> of this project is to provide a park facility that will have a multitude of uses available <br /> to both the local residents and the Elementary School. <br /> The park is bounded to the west by Richmond Road, a major collector road, that <br /> services the residential area bordering the park. Primary access to Richmond Road is <br /> from Highway 70. The proposed park is also bounded on the southern edge by the <br /> Bus Access Road to the Elementary School. Both of these roads provide dual access <br /> opportunities to the proposed park. <br /> Residential development is present around two thirds of the proposed park. The area <br /> to the north of the park is currently left in a natural state. <br /> The current joint site presently has a number of recreation activities. The Elementary <br /> School has a number of newly renovated playground areas and two outdoor <br /> basketball court areas. There also exists an outdoor amphitheater adjacent to the rear <br /> of the school and an open ball field that appears to get limited use due to the constant <br /> wet conditions that exist. The Community Center portion of the site has two <br /> structured picnic areas and one large playground facility. The current connection of <br /> the two portions of the site comes when the Efland-Cheeks Elementary School second <br /> grade class meets with the Senior Citizens at the Community Center for joint <br /> activities. The students gain access to the Community Center by walking up the Bus <br /> Access Road and then along Richmond Road to the center. <br /> The site can be broken into two distinct sections. The Community Center portion of <br /> the site is almost entirely covered with vegetation including a good mixture of <br /> hardwoods, softwoods and pines. The Elementary School portion of the site is <br /> completely void of trees except for the decorative plant materials around the school <br /> building. Parking, maintenance access and open play areas compose most of the <br /> outdoor spaces. <br /> There is one major sanitary utility corridor that traverses the joint site from the north <br /> western edge of the Community Center site to the south eastern edge of the <br /> Elementary School site. <br /> Woolpert Park Master Plan April 1997 <br />