HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 05-18-2004-9aORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: May 18, 2004
Action Agenda
Item No. _~-
SUBJECT: Southern Orange Senior Center Location on Southern Human Services Center
Site
DEPARTMENT: Purchasing and Central PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No
Services and ERCD
ATTACHMENT(S):
Map of Site
ERCD Preliminary Conservation
Assessment and Map
INFORMATION CONTACT:
Pam Jones, (919) 245-2652
Rich Shaw. (9191245-2590
TELEPHONE NUMBERS:
Hillsborough 732-8181
Chapel Hill 968-4501
Durham 688-7331
Mebane 336-227-2031
PURPOSE: To approve a building footprint on the Southern Human Services Center site for
the Southern Orange Senior Center.
BACKGROUND: An extensive site search was conducted in 1997-98 for an area suitable for
the relocation of the Chapel Hill Senior Center. After considerable effort by the Aging
Resources Collaborative Planning Group, the site on Homestead Road was selected, The
Homestead Road site was selected in part because of the collaboration opportunities with the
University's Institute on Aging, which at that time was considering potential relocation to an area
of the Horace Williams/Carolina North site in close proximity to the Southern Human Services
Center. In anticipation of that action, the County requested that the University allow the County
use of a three-acre tract that could be used jointly by both groups as parking for the Senior
Center and whatever Institute presence came to fruition, However, discussions with University
officials over the past few years have not provided any indication that the Institute on Aging
would indeed relocate to the Horace Williams/Carolina North site, As of this date, staff has
received no response from the University.
The Master Plan map (map #1) identifies four additional building footprints on the Southern
Human Services Center site (map #1 does not include the existing home site, which is included
as a potential building site on the conservation evaluation map #2). Each of the building
footprints varies in the amount of first floor square footage allowed, The Board may recall that
the building footprints were laid out by the designers to best utilize the available land by placing
parking between footprints to allow shared parking between two buildings, In addition, while
parking lots are laid out to minimize the amount of land consumed by parking on the site, the
manner in which circulation would occur on and between each of the sites would be designed at
such time the building plans are formulated by architects. Access roadways to parking areas
and bus loops to each of the future facilities would be developed by the architects as well.
In November 1998, the County Commissioners endorsed the building footprint in the
southwestern corner of the Southern Human Services Center Site as the Senior Center location
(site #1 on map #1; site D on the conservation map). The Board will note that the proximity of
the Institute on Aging's proposed development an the adjacent Horace Williams property was a
significant factor in the designation of this site for the Senior Center. The current plans for the
property, now called Carolina North, do not include such development by the Institute on Aging.
In order to assess compliance with the County's own conservation goals with regard to
development impact, the ERCD was requested to provide a preliminary evaluation of the site as
well. The attached document and map have been revised from the version presented in the
.lanuary 2004 Board retreat materials to more specifically correlate to the possible building sites
identified on the Southern Human Services Center Master Plan and to point out the advantages
and challenges of each.
As a reminder, no plans have been cited far the building footprints on this site, with the
exception of possible future justice facilities, tentatively suggested far Site A on the
conservation map and expansion of the Southern Human Services Center, which would occur
to the east end of the existing building, site E on the conservation map.
FINANCIAL IMPACT: None at this time.
RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board approve the preferred
footprint on the Southern Human Services Center site upon which the Southern Orange Senior
Center will be located.
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Pros and Cons of Potential Building Sites
Site A
Pros
Cons
Site B
Pros
Cons
Site C
Pros
Cons
Site D
Pros
Cons
Site E
Pros
Cons
• Least environmentally sensitive site (abandoned farm field and young pine trees)
• Large size (>6 acres)
• Adjacent to existing facilities and infrastructure
• Would not be overly disruptive of current on-site traffic pattern
• Moderately sloped topography
• Slight disruption of vista
• Primarily pine trees (would not need to remove mature hardwoods)
• Good access and visibility from Homestead Road
• Small size (about 1.2 acres) and moderate slope
• Would disrupt current on-site traffic pattern
• Level topography
• Central location on property
• Could expand existing parking area to accommodate this site
• Would lose opportunity to reuse former farmhouse as small conference center
• Would have to cut down existing mature hardwood trees around the house
• Small size (just under 1 acre)
• Fairly level topography
• Adjacent to existing parking area
• Would not disrupt current on-site traffic pattern
• Small size (about I acre)
• Would encroach on mature hardwood forest located west of site
• Would disrupt newly established walking trails
• Level topography
• Adjacent to existing facilities and infrastructure
• Primarily pine trees (would not need to remove mature hardwoods)
• Unusual location; access and visibility would be challenge
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