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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 16, 2004 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 9 - <br />SUBJECT: Southern Orange Senior Center Location on Southern Human Services Center <br />Site <br />DEPARTMENT: Purchasing and Central <br />Services and ERCD <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Map of Site <br />ERCD Preliminary Conservation <br />Assessment and Map <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Pam Jones, (919) 245-2652 <br />Rich Shaw, (919) 245-2590 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To approve a building footprint on the Southern Human Services Center site for <br />the Southern Orange Senior Center. <br />BACKGROUND: An extensive site search was conducted in 1997-98 for an area suitable for <br />the relocation of the Chapel Hill Senior Center. After considerable effort by the Aging <br />Resources Collaborative Planning Group, the site on Homestead Road was selected. The <br />Homestead Road site was selected in part because of the collaboration opportunities with the <br />University's Institute on Aging, which at that time was considering potential relocation to an area <br />of the Horace Williams/Carolina North site in close proximity to the Southern Human Services <br />Center. In anticipation of that action, the County requested that the University allow the County <br />use of a three-acre tract that could be used jointly by both groups as parking for the Senior <br />Center and whatever Institute presence came to fruition. However, discussions with University <br />officials over the past few years have not provided any indication that the Institute on Aging <br />would indeed relocate to the Horace Williams/Carolina North site. As of this date, staff has <br />received no response from the University. <br />The Master Plan map (map #1) identifies four additional building footprints on the Southern <br />Human Services Center site (map #1 does not include the existing home site, which is included <br />as a potential building site on the conservation evaluation map #2). Each of the building <br />footprints varies in the amount of first floor square footage allowed. The Board may recall that <br />the building footprints were laid out by the designers to best utilize the available land by placing <br />parking between footprints to allow shared parking between two buildings. In addition, while <br />parking lots are laid out to minimize the amount of land consumed by parking on the site, the <br />manner in which circulation would occur on and between each of the sites would be designed at