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Preliminary School Facilities Report <br />2000 through 2025 <br />Presented to the Chapel Hill - Carrboro Board of Education <br />December. 2, 1999 <br />This report is the -first step in a process to assess and plan for school facility needs for the Chapel <br />Hill- Carrboro School District in the early part of the next century. Included are historical <br />enrollment data, population and demographic projections, a projection of need for additional <br />school capacity, and a description of the condition and useful life of existing facilities. <br />The next step in this process will be preparation of a Facilities Master Plan. This plan will <br />recommend a facility construction program, for use by the community in anticipating future <br />funding needs and timing. The Plan also will identify potential locations for new facilities. <br />Numerous reports and memoranda were collected and used as the information base for this <br />report. Several of these are briefly described in the narrative that follows, and all are available <br />for review as an Appendix to this report. The contents of this Appendix are listed on the last <br />page, and the individual documents are available in the Superintendent's office. <br />HISTORICAL / PROJECTED POPULATION AND ENROLLMENT <br />Population Growth <br />Map 1 shows an area referred to as the Chapel Hill- Carrboro Urban Services Area. This area has <br />been drawn for land use planning purposes, as part of a Joint Planning Agreement among three <br />jurisdictions: the Town of Chapel Hill, the Town of Carrboro, and Orange County. The <br />planning concept is that, ultimately, Chapel Hill and Carrboro will extend their corporate limits <br />out to, but not beyond, this Urban Services Boundary. Thus the boundary becomes an important <br />feature in long range planning for these communities. Accompanying this boundary is an <br />agreement that urban services (e.g., water and sewer extensions) would not extend beyond the <br />Urban Services Boundary. <br />The boundaries of the Chapel Hill Carrboro School District are shown on Map 2. The area <br />includes the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro (those portions that are located within Orange <br />County), and- surrounding unincorporated areas. Please note that a portion of the Town of <br />1 <br />