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j� C • Helpful to have how many acres exist and are needed for active recreation such as soccer, baseball fields, or active park. • How much acreage is needed for school building, parking lot, and recreation area • Shape is important — rectangle best and doesn't need to be contiguous. • Two multipurpose fields. • Like to see a footprint of fields to see what could be done. • Stormwater management will be an issue at the site Stancil reviewed discussions with OWASA about extending sewer to the property from the south, which is currently at Lake Hogan Farms. Their plan has been to extend sewer along the Jones Creek corridor to the north and then extend the line into the draw area to utilize gravity flow. However, there are examples of places where the sewer line is along the stream such as Booker Creek. In other cases the line can be offset from the stream as long s the topo still works (gravity flow). Carrboro noted that 20 foot setbacks required. If one looks at the topography the gravity can be maintained, and so it may be possible to offset a line along the Jones Creek corridor. Another potential extension could be along Buckhorn Branch. Anything other than that would involve pump stations, which are much more expensive. The best approach from an engineering standpoint would be to keep within the general topography, using gravity flow lines to pipe wastewater. A draft Activities Timeline for the project was distributed and reviewed. Items one through four have been done. Stancil noted that there are two parts to pickup with at the next meeting before talking about the specifics of what the park and school campus is, and breaking into subcommittees. Those are to talk about public outreach, and begin thinking about a menu of activities. Stancil also noted that one approach often used is "dot voting," where the (group as a whole, subcommittees) is to create a list of all potential needs that we think exists either from inventories of needs or committee knowledge of needs or interests and use that menu for people to look at and agree. Then give all members five green dots and ask them to vote what are the most important activities. This process is the first step to developing a draft concept plan. The other thing needed for discussion was public outreach. The Work Group is to provide an interim report to the Board of County Commissioners in January /February, and it might be useful to hold an initial public forum. After the group has talked about the menu of activities and at least gotten a sense of what might be appropriate, have a public forum and get a reaction from local folks and interested folks. Looking into February and March the work group needs to accomplish pieces that we need for the final design to be completed. Talk about how the subcommittees are going to work, how many on each, how we will communicate and begin to use design charettes to focus in on specifics about the site. Subcommittees would begin meeting possibly twice a month to crunch down on what the master plan looks like for the individual sites. In April, the timetable would have the work group looking at draft concept plans for the two pieces, having communicated each other about how to provide that seamless transition asked to include. Then finalize the concept plans, discuss how we integrate them, and talk about phasing, final design issues. Once the group has a final draft master plan, a second public forum asking people to react what has been done might be prudent. After that the group may want to make changes to the report, and send the master plan on to the county commissioners in June. The Work Group was asked if any additional information needs existed based on the discussion to date. It was noted that several informational pieces had been included in the agenda packet. draft