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ORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Action Agenda
Item No. 9-G
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: October 1, 1996
SUBJECT: Community School For People Under Six Funding Request
DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: YES: NO: X
BUDGET AMENDMENT: YES: NO: X
ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT:
Letter From Community School TELEPHONE NUMBERS:
Hillsborough -732-8181
Chapel Hill -968-4501
Durham -688-7331
Mebane -227-2031
PURPOSE: To consider a request from the Community School For People Under Six for funding.
BACKGROUND: On April 1, 1996,the Board approved a request from the Community School to
construct a 2, 150 square feet building addition to the Northside Multipurpose Center located on
Caldwell Street in Chapel Hill. Since April, the cost of the expansion project has increased beyond
the Community School's budget.
Representatives from the Community School For People Under Six will present the request and
discuss their concerns.
RECOMMENDATION(S): As the Board decides.
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COMMUNITY SCHOOL
FOR PEOPLE UNDER SIX
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i-e 0--ange County C(xn.m-4ss ; (3.-e-s at your Seaptemher meet-Lng .
Apr : 1 996 , the ')range Cr,,:.nty Cc-,miniSsioners ap�-�-zoved the
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- blished for this project, we `eel we can,not burden the
cost alone and are requesting support from Orange County.
Ine- Town Cnape-1 H.J."Ll is request-.4n.- th-a-t- we 1 ) pave
exist-'Lng parking lot- on McMas-z:eiv Street- side ; '2 ) indicate
,")w the par7K-4ng lot' w-"1 " be screened and shaded; 3 ) provide
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a d1um -pste pad; and -I ) provide a fJve--foot planting strip"
b-etwe the build]-ng and park.;;-n�- llo't- Th-Ls cost. to I--
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school woul-J Tanga =ro $15 , 0 0(3) to $310, , 0 0 0 .
With the growing q(Ds-- of the expansi"on pro�eC- 4
i- ncreasing
$246 , 000 beyond our $175 ,000 'Oudge-t. We afford the
atdditionall cost of t1n.e -coning req,111-4--ements Because the
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ing area -1s currently being utilized by other coun-t-y-
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increasing the cumber of availab-1 a infa.-,t/-t odd-1 er spaces in
the community.
Attached is a copy of the final latter received from the
-Own Of Chapel Hill planning iLrector. We need the support
of the County and -'C-he Comsman-Itv- as a whole to meet the needs
:"!t- ou-- young children. Th,an-lr, yc-.,-, 'tor ,;,--:ur assistance .
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ma --ter at t.he Sep--ember meei---;'-. Z -
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Anna Mel-cer-M'7'-ean
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P.O. Box 633 Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514 (919) 929-1543
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TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL
306 NORTH COLUMBIA STREET
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA 27516
T60-(919)96&2700
July 8, 1996
Ms. Anna Mercer-Mclean, Director
Community School for People Under Six
P.O. Box 633
Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514
RE: Community School for People Under Six
Zoning Compliance Permit (File # 84.13)
Dear Ms. Mercer-McLean :
Town Manager Cal Horton has asked me to respond to your letter of June 10, which
requests waiver of zoning requirements. I am sorry to report that after inspecting the
site and discussing the request with the Town Manager and key Town staff, we cannot
offer you the relief you are seeking.
In your letter you refer to our approval of your application for a Zoning Compliance
Permit. That approval contained conditions, including requirements to:
- Pave your existing parking lot;
- Indicate how the parking lot will be screened and shaded;
- Provide a dumpster pad; and
- Provide a five-foot planting strip between the building and parking lot.
With this letter we are reiterating those requirements, along with the other conditions
noted in a May 9 letter from our Development Coordinator, Ms. J.B. Culpepper, to your
architect, Mr. Steven Triggiano.
I understand that these site improvements cost money. However, they are basic
improvements routinely required of development projects in Chapel Hill. Upon
inspection of your site, I was reminded of the conditions which currently exist: gravel
spilling out into the street, erosion of the bank on both sides of the driveway, an
unshaded and unscreened parking area, a dumpster that rests on a combination of grass
and gravel, no landscaping. I believe that we cannot approve an expansion to this facility
without having these deficiencies corrected. Approval without these requirements for
site improvements would worsen an existing problem.
I am sorry that we cannot accommodate your request.
Sincerely,
Roger S. Waldon,
Planning Director
cc: Mr. Steven A. Triggiano, Tise-Kiester Architects
W. Calvin Horton, Town Manager
J.B. Culpepper, Development Coordinator