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* 12 <br />and a promising idea emerged. A small piece of this property was once the location for the former <br />Hoyle home site, with a residence that has since been demolished. The site of the former residence, <br />surrounded by large trees and adjacent to the existing entrance road coming into the site, would be a <br />desirable location for the proposed Veterans Memorial. As discussion of this idea evolved, it became <br />clear that this home site could be used for the Memorial in a way that did not compromise or reduce the <br />potential for construction of new County facilities on the site. In addition, the home site is in a location <br />that can be accessed both by the existing internal road configuration, and the proposed new realigned <br />internal road network. An advantage of that site geography is that the timing of construction of the <br />Memorial could take place at any time, either before or after the internal road realignment. The <br />following sketch shows this location on the property: <br />The Board of County Commissioners approved this idea in principle on May 5, and directed County staff <br />to proceed and participate in the ongoing project planning process. <br />D. NEW, SECOND POINT OF ACCESS <br />A key opportunity identified in the Master Plan is the possibility of adding a second point of access into <br />the site, using an existing right -of -way abutting the site to the east. This new point of access appears on <br />the Master Plan, as shown previously on page 3 of this Implementation Report. As the amount of <br />building floor area on this site increases from the existing 61,000 square feet to over 300,000 square <br />feet, the second point of access into the site is very important. The second access also will allow for <br />efficient movement of buses and other vehicles through the site without requiring turnarounds and <br />redundant paths. <br />Phasing considerations are very important here, and the component parts of site development align <br />well. This second means of access into the site will need to be in place before construction work starts <br />to realign the existing entrance road. And the realigning of the existing entrance road would most <br />efficiently take place at the same time as the proposed building expansion for the Seymour Center <br />Southern Orange County Government Services Campus I Implementation Report Page 8 <br />