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approximately 66 acres would be needed to satisfy the land requirements for OCS Middle School #3). Also in March 2004, the BOCG authorized the purchase for $508,500 of the approximately 34 acres immediately adjacent to the east of the Orange County Middle School site for the development of a soccer complex, Exploration of Cost Saving Approaches Thereafter, County and OCS staff and the middle school architects have held discussions about how the adjacent locations of the middle school and soccer park sites could lead to economies of scale in design and construction of both the soccer complex and the middle school, leading to cost savings in bath projects, In May 2004, the Board approved a contract with Corley, Redfoot and Zack (CRZ) -the same firm engaged by OC5 to design the middle school -for these services. In June 2004, the BOCC considered and approved the pre-concept plan (Attachment 1) for the soccer complex and authorized staff to work with the Orange County Schools and CRZ to: • determine the most appropriate method of bidding the site development of the soccer park along with site work for the school; • obtain community input through an outreach process consistent with the pre-concept plan approved by the Board of Commissioners in March 2004; • authorize the issuance of the bid for the pre-grading component of the project; • authorize the development of an interlocal agreement with the Orange County Board of Education to accomplish the concurrent bidding of the school and West Ten Soccer Complex to achieve economies of scale; and authorize the development of all easements necessary for access, utilities and parking, The pre-concept plan for the soccer complex included its interrelatianshiptyith the OCS Middle School and particularly the shared use of access facilities and parking, The eastern access drive to the middle school will be located almost entirely on the soccer complex property, Parking that will be located an both the school property and the soccer complex property will have a potential to be shared. Special Use Permit In June 2004, the Board of Commissioners approved the special use permit (SUP) for the Orange County Middle School #3. That special use permit, in the interest of shared opportunities and a safer intersection at West Ten Road, provided for the eastern drive of the school to be located on the soccer complex property with cross access easements to ensure that the drive will be available for both school use and soccer complex use, The special use permit also gave the school the option of meeting impervious surface requirements for the Upper Eno protected watershed by 1) keeping the impervious surfaces an the school property to 12% or less without the use of structural best management practices (BMPs) or 2) in effect, exceeding the 12% impervious surface limit and operating structural BMPs. Finally, the special use permit, contemplating that the non-stn~ctural BMP approach would be utilized by the Board of Education, provided for the Board of Edtcation to convey to Orange County a conservation easement to the area of the Board of Education property north of the athletic complex, the terms of which were subsequently to be agreed upon by the Board of Education and the County. The combination site plan for the Orange County Middle School #3 and the West Ten Soccer Complex, with its shared facilities, accomplishes the goal of not exceeding 12% impervious