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Informal Resident Advisory Work Group Cedar Grove Community Center August 27, 2013 Page 3of7 34 The county environmental health department has done a preliminary review of the septic system and believed that 1,400 gallon a day was enough capacity for a "reasonable" 10,000 square foot community center. • The site is located within a watershed and the impervious surface is limited to 12% of the total site area (this has been verified with Orange County Planning). Gravel parking lots are counted as "impervious" surface. • The additional land purchased across Hwy 86 for a future septic field is not "contiguous" and cannot be used to offset impervious surface requirements, but could be the site for a proposed "park and ride" lot. • The Informal Resident Advisory Work Group members stated that as the additional land across Highway 86 had been purchased for the future septic tank needs that they felt that this land should only be used for this purpose. • Members of the Informal Resident Advisory Work Group also requested that the County look at providing more regular maintenance of this additional land as it was overgrown and an "eyesore ". The county stated they would look into this matter. • The members of the Informal Resident Advisory Work Group stated that while they liked the fact that the numbers of occupants had been added to the spaces on the plan they would like to see spaces also labeled with letters so it was easier to identify where each space occurred within each option. • John Thomas presented two more refined options for the rehabilitation of the building to the group. The refined plans are still conceptual in nature and intended to prompt discussion about the relationships between spaces and their sizes. The group was encouraged to look for elements in the various plans they like and do not like. As the plans are developed and refined over the next few weeks furniture and other items will be added to the plans to show how each space could be used and laid out. The highlights and differences in each option were discussed. These included the following; o Option "E" was discussed first • This option is a refinement of option "C" presented at the last meeting but with a full sized basketball court provided to the gym. • The creation of the full sized basketball court required that the gym be rotated 90 degrees parallel to the classroom wing. • This allows for the court to be placed closer to the stage end of the space and bleacher seating added to the opposite side. This bleacher seating shown would seat approx 200 people. • The new full size gym would have a raised roof with the full 20' -0" required clearance over the basketball court. • The creation of a full size gym would add 3,801 new square feet to the project scope and approximately $650,000 to $700,000 to the project cost. To proceed with this approach either the budget would need to be increased or the scope of the remaining renovations significandy reduced. • A folding partition is added to the front of the stage to allow this space to be used both as a Stage and an Exercise Room. • Handicapped access to the stage would be provided by a wheelchair lift. • The first classroom in the north classroom wing would have its entire window area in -filled with masonry to accommodate the additional gymnasium space. • The existing north and south wings could remain and be mothballed. • New group toilets are provided in the same location as the existing toilets but are enlarged, made handicapped accessible and provided with exterior access.