Agenda - 10-11-1995 - Items 1 and 2 - Appendix 1

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Schools The perennial stream corridors located in this area also provide the opportunity for greenway The Chapel Hill-Carrboro School System's report, corridors that could serve to meet the area's future Lony, Range Facility Plan for the Nineties, recreational needs. The development of a recommends that two elementary schools, one pedestrian/bikeway path in the rail line corridor middle school and one high school be built in the could also serve to meet future recreational needs school district over the next ten years. of this area. In accordance with the School System's report,the Public Safety new McDougle Middle School opened in the Fall of 1994. One of the needed new elementary The Town has a general standard of a five-minute schools will be located on land currently owned response time or a one and one-half mile service by the School Board that is adjacent to the new radius for determining the need for additional fire middle school. A new high school is scheduled stations. Based on the location of Town Fire to open in the Fall of 1996. Station #4 at the corner of N.C. 86 and Weaver Dairy Road Extension, this area's fire protection The school system has indicated that there is a needs will be met by the existing level of service. possibility that the second new elementary school could be located in the Northwest Area, due to Transportation shorter transit time, large parcels of land being available, and the lack of an existing elementary In formulating the recommended conceptual road school in the surrounding area. Based on these network,the Work Group reviewed modeling data criteria, and the increased density of a village for both the road network and for transit ridership. pattern development, the Northwest Area would The modeling assumptions used for this process be a good location for a new elementary school. are listed in the Appendix. Parks and Recreation Based on the modeling results for the recommended conceptual road network,the traffic The Town's planning standard for a neighborhood volumes along all the roads serving the Northwest park (5-20 acres) is one park for every 5,000 Area increased with the changes in land use. persons. The Town's planning standard for a Traffic along N.C.86 increased significantly, partly community park (21-100 acres) is one park for due to increased development in the Northwest every 15,000 persons. Area, but also due to development in Carrboro. The Town has acquired land along N.C. 86 that The impact of development in Carrboro is will be developed as a Northern Community Park. indicated by the increased volume of traffic along Construction on this 40.5 acre park is scheduled Eubanks Road, west of Rogers Road. The volume to begin during the 1995-96 fiscal year. A total of increased from 143 vehicles per day under $1,002,000 of 1989 Parks and Open Space Bond existing conditions to over 10,000 vehicles per money has been allocated for the completion of day in the year 2010. Therefore, a portion of the this park. increased volumes along N.C. 86 can be attributed to the increased traffic from future Given the population of the areas surrounding the development in Carrboro's northern planning Northwest Study Area, the plan's projected build- jurisdiction. out population of 7,216 suggests that an additional neighborhood park or other recreational A detailed summary of the projected future areas will be needed. The plan's emphasis on a increases in traffic volumes on Northwest Area village pattern encourages the designation of open roads is also included in the Appendix. space areas that could serve to meet additional park and recreational needs for this area. Northwest Small Area Plan Page 43