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Sept 5, 2007 <br />Mr. Jack Evans <br />Executive Director, Carolina North <br />304 South Building <br />CB 4000 <br />UNC -Chapel Hill <br />Chapel Hill, NC 27599-4000 <br />Dear Mr. Evans: <br />The development of Carolina North offers both opportunities as well as challenges to our <br />community. As the Chapel Hill - Carrboro Board of Education looks to the future, we <br />anticipate that we will continue to experience growth in our student population. The new <br />jobs and housing. generated by Carolina North will drive the demand for additional school <br />capacity. <br />The Board of Education appreciates the University of North Carolina's willingness to set <br />aside at least one site for a public school at Carolina North and would like to begin a <br />conversation about when these sites will be needed and where they should be placed. We <br />respectfully request that the University commit to dedicating at least one site for a school <br />in Phase I of the development of Carolina North. <br />The Board will adopt along-range capital improvement plan this fall. However, based <br />upon student projections developed in conjunction with the Orange County Board of <br />Commissioners under the Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance, we currently <br />anticipate that we will need the following schools in the near future: <br />Elementary School: #10 - to open in August, 2008 (construction has begun at Twin <br />Creeks site) <br />#11-needed to open in August, 2010 <br />#12 -needed to open in August, 2017 <br />Middle School: #5 - needed.to open in August, 2013 <br />High School: Expansion of Carrboro High School -needed in August, 2014 <br />Lincoln Center, 750 S. Merritt MiII Road a Chapel HiII, NC 27516-2878 ~ (919) 967-8211 e www.chccs.kl2.naus <br /> <br />