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!r 1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: April 16, 2002 Action Agen a Item No. SUBJECT: Chapel Hill Township Park and Educational Campus— Master Plan Process DEPARTMENT: Environment and Resource PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No Conservation ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Draft Master Plan Process David Stancil, 245-2590 Pre-concept Plan TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To consider a draft proposal for the Master Plan process for the 193-acre Chapel Hill Township Park and Educational Campus. BACKGROUND: In May 2001, the County purchased 193 acres of land near the intersection of Old 86 and Eubanks Road for a future Chapel Hill Township Park and Educational Campus, coordinating with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools for part of the acquisition. Funding in the amount of$1.2 million to develop phase I of the park was approved as part of the November 2001 bond. Since that time, a Board of Commissioners task force has worked to evaluate the site and develop preliminary ideas for the co-located school facilities and park. These ideas were coalesced into a "pre-concept plan," which the Board reviewed and agreed to on November 13, 2001. Preliminary planning for the site has been shared with representatives of the Carrboro Board of Aldermen and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education. A draft process for planning the site was initially developed in the late summer of 2001, and reviewed in October and November 2001. A revised draft proposal is attached, based on schedule changes, comments from the Board and additional information gathered. The draft process outlines a timetable and charge for the creation of a Master Plan. A Master Plan Work Group is proposed, which would operate within guiding principles and a charge set by the Board (contained in the draft process). This Work Group would coordinate with other schools-oriented committees working on related subjects, as noted at the March 25 BOCC/School Boards meeting.