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Citizen Plan 93 for Twin Creeks Park /School Campus <br />A <br />Analysis of Citizen Plan #3 <br />Feature <br /> <br />_. .... _..... _ Analysis v <br /> <br />. -- <br />- <br />Neighborhood schools as Puts the combined elementary/middle school within 1.5 mile of 500 <br />community centers homes of Lake Hogan Farm, and future possible homes to the east and <br /> south-east. School system will not have to provide bussing within these <br /> developments, After-school use will not require bus/auto use for local ! <br />1 residents. Walking/biking to school both during and after school will <br /> <br />---_..__...... .._____--_. occur' more frequently. <br />Road use and construction Allows phase 1 park facilities to be immediately accessible from <br /> Eubanks Rd with minimal or no new road construction. The east-west <br /> access road from Old NC 86 would need to be completed in conjunction <br /> with the first school construction, but it is already planned for the <br /> Harmony Farms development. Automobile traffic within the site is not <br /> increased. Vehicular miles traveled are reduced due to about 100-200 <br /> students and other neighborhood residents potentially walking/biking to <br /> the school/gym/park site on a daily basis. <br />Local use of school / park i This plan puts the park playing fields farther from Lake Hogan Farm <br />facilities i development, but these fields are intended for county-wide use, and will <br /> be intensively scheduled for use on a county-wide basis, not generally <br /> available for casual use. The school playing fields will be closer to the <br />1 homes, and are open for casual use when not in use by middle school <br /> teams. The proposed community gym is also now within walking <br />j distance of homes. Young families prefer to use a playground near a <br /> neighborhood school. <br />Utility costs The ES/N4S site is the major user of water/sewer utilities. Placing it <br /> immediately adjacent to Lake Hogan Farm development possibly saves a' <br /> couple of hundred thousand dollars by shortening the distance sewer, <br /> would be extended. Costs for water are unclear and need OWASA effort ''.I <br /> to estimate, but will not be higher than the county plans. Daylighting of <br /> the schools requires the corridors in east-west axis, resulting in lower, <br /> power consumption, <br />Topography Only land already designated for clearing and grading, about one-quarter' <br /> of the acreage of the site, is affected by the revision proposed in Citizen <br /> Plan #3. This land is already flat enough to build fields and schools <br /> without undue cost. This land was chosen for intensive development by <br /> the CHATPEC working group because it had historically been used as <br /> farmland, and no old-growth forest was affected <br />City growth planning j The wetlands to the north and the Duke Forest property to the north and <br /> east of Twin Creeks make future residential development unlikely in <br /> those areas. Placing a neighborhood school adjacent to those features has <br /> no benefit. Land to the east-southeast is currently lightly undeveloped, in <br /> private hands, and could become a mixed-use development in the future. <br />11/29/2004 Page 3 of'6