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Im Work Group when this concept came up. Based on GI5 analysis, 906 homes are currently located within 1.5 miles of the proposed schools campus in the original and alternative scenario designs (please see Attachment C). Additionally, concerns have been raised in the new proposed plan about goals of increasing physical activity and reducing childhood obesity. A longer daily walk to school of % -mile to one mile may help enhance this goal, 4. Based on our initial assessment, staff thinks it is unlikely that the four field configuration as shown in the proposed Citizen Plan #3 could be built as shown, due to topography and resultant costs. There is a grade differential of 45 -feet in elevation within the proposed field location. Trying to locate the park on the northern portion of the property may result in some facilities not being sited, due to topography and stream buffers. While building footprints are often larger for schools, there are many more field footprints that would need to be accommodated. In general, staff feels that school campuses and associated fields may more easily be accommodated where topography causes multiple elevation levels to be created, and efficiently designed multi - purpose sports fields may benefit from a more level area where lighting can be shared and the stray balls don't roll to a lower field. This scenario exists in the current plans, but may not in the proposed Citizen Plan #3 5. While the schools may become more walkable in the proposed new plan, the redesign conversely may make the park less walkable and more dependent on individual vehicles 6. The road access issue noted in the proposed Citizen Plan #3 would not speed up the timetable for the park, in our estimation, The proposed redesign would provide for one parking lot directly off of Eubanks Road, but two others would be off of the connector road. In this proposed redesign, the soccer fields, expected to be the first built facilities, are located away from Eubanks Road and would be accessible only by building part of the connector road and adjacent parking, or by walking i/2 mile from the proposed Eubanks Road parking lot. In addition, this land may be less conducive to easy field development, perhaps driving up the cost of construction. Regardless of the park location, the time needed for Town CUP approval and eventual construction would remain the same, and actually increase, due to the needed comprehensive redesign that is estimated to take 6 -12 months 7. The Citizen Plan #3 Analysis Table ( "Road use and construction ") states that the "east -west access road from Old 86 would need to be completed in conjunction with the first school construction, but it is already planned for the Harmony Farms development," The writer may be thinking of the proposed Villages at Berkeley development due south of the Twin Creeks property, for which Town staff has proposed a shared entrance road. (The development proposed for Harmony Farms is located further to the south). However, the status of this proposed development is still up in the air, and the development has not been approved.