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01 Appointed by the Orange County Board of Education • 1 Orange County Board of Education member Mr. Barton suggested the concept of taking a second look at schools campus versus park location at the last meeting of the CHATPEC Work Group on May 22, 2003. It was briefly discussed at that meeting, but was not pursued, as there were no further scheduled meetings. However, Appendix 7 of the Work Group report includes this proposal. Appendix 7 (in which members were encouraged to submit any final comments or revisions to the May 22 Work Group report) notes that the proposal was not pursued, and that a "school board member noted that the schools as designed were within walking distance of the schools (defined as 1.5 miles)." In the adopted CHATPEC Master Plan Work Group Process of May 14, 2002, the charge to the Work Group included a guiding principle that stated that the work group should develop a master plan for the site that was "within the framework of the Pre - Concept Plan, Guiding Principles... and other direction provided from the Board of Commissioners on October 22, 2001, November 13, 2001, February 18, 2002 and at subsequent meetings." On November 13, 2001, the Board adopted a Pre - Concept Plan to guide the further site planning. This map was incorporated into the adopted May 14, 2002 process as noted above (please see Attachment A). The purpose of a Pre - Concept Plan (short for Preliminary Concept Plan) is to identify the general types of uses for portions of the site (i.e., schools campus, active recreation, low impact recreation, etc.). In the CHATPEC Pre - Concept Plan, this map shows the portion of the site generally north of Jones Creek as the "Educational Campus," and the areas generally south of Jones Creek as the park (except for an area designated "Potential School Site, Pending Further Study "). To my recollection, the Pre - Concept Plan reflects these locations based on the following reasons: 1. Prior to the County taking over and completing negotiations for all of the properties at Twin Creeks, the Chapel Hill- Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) had been considering purchase of the 44 -acre former Hunter property along Eubanks Road, and the County was involved in discussions with John and Roderick Cate for 149 acres to the south. The Pre - Concept Plan thus reflected the original land acquisition targets for schools and parks, with additional lands from the Cate properties added to the schools target site for the future educational campus. 2. The County's interest in locating a park site had begun by identification of a number of different sites for the planned Chapel Hill Township District Park (a park that was identified in the adopted 1988 Parks Element of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan) by looking at their potential for a combination of active and low- impact recreation. The existence of the