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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 9, 2007 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. G}- - <br />SUBJECT: Granting of Sanitary Sewer Easements for CHCCS Elementary School #10 <br />DEPARTMENT: County Attorney, ERCD PUBIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Geof Gledhill, 732-2196 <br />1. Vicinity Map /Planned Sewer Line David Stancil, 245-2590 <br />Pam Jones, 245-2650 <br />PURPOSE: To consider approval of sanitary sewer easements and related documents for <br />the sewer line to serve Elementary School #10, and authorize representatives from Chapel <br />Hill Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) and Orange County to work with adjoining property <br />owners to the south to secure off-site easements. <br />BACKGROUND: Elementary School #10 received Town of Carrboro Conditional Use Permit <br />approval in early 2007, and construction began on the school at the County-owned Twin <br />Creeks site in the late spring of this year. Provision of sanitary sewer service to the school <br />requires extension of an existing Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) sewer outfall <br />from Glen Ridge Townhomes and the lake Hogan Farms area to the south. An extension of <br />this line has been designed and permitted by Corley, Redfoot and Zack, engineering firm for <br />CHCCS. The design has been approved and permitted by OWASA and the State. <br />In order to continue construction on the sewer line (a short segment appears to be under <br />construction), sewer easements need to be recorded that bring the line to the school. This <br />includes a long segment of gravity sewer on the west side of Jones Creek within the County's <br />Twin Creeks property (park and educational campus sections). The line also requires <br />easements be recorded and obtained from MI Homes (owner/developer of the recently- <br />approved Ballentine subdivision to the south), and from the Glen Ridge Townhomes <br />Homeowners Association (where an existing easement needs a minor modification). <br />The proposed easement on the Twin Creeks property follows the west side of Jones Creek <br />before crossing the creek near the point where the creek turns westward, and thence to the <br />