8/16/1994 SCHOOL - HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING COMMITTEE Minutes

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school , Bob said both issues are driving this . Parking is a way of reducing the cost but having less paved spaces is also a value . D r. DeMou ra thinks 300 is quite conservative,. There w i 11 be at least 120 faculty . A lot of 1 l & 12th grade students take their cars . to faculty should he as low as they go= Ed said l per 5 students is 356 spaces . Fie suggested 240 for students , the midway between 150 and 350 , -dor a total parking spaces of 370 . Merry sue is concerned with a 600 seat aUd i for i um and 1000 seat gym, a 1 1 the parking is at the other end of the building , The Committee reviewed the site plan . Dan showed how it could be modified to reflect the 200 space reduction . They could eliminate 1 bay of faculty parking . Another option i s to eliminate the southern student bay , keep i nq it in a natural condition and build the northern tier . Merry sue said that rakes no sense because it is useless f e r the community end of the building . Dan asked the committee to consider their priorities . Is the parking developed for student parking or -dor special occasions? Could the committee consider uging the wing c 1 osest to the parking for the upper grade-..s and the furthest wing for the 7 & 8th grades? The Committee had asked Ray to look at that. It should he explored . Paul asked how many cars you can park on the road for special occasions? Dan said if it is 18 feet wide , you could pari end to end on one side all along the length of the driveway which is about 500 feet long . Dan said they could eliminate the northern tier, in favor of the southern tiers but the student parking A0 1 1 be -further away from the door . Dan said he is trying to find an elegant way to reduce the parking . He ag reed , i f they can afford a 1 l of the park i ng , to add more park i ng near the southern section of the site . Paul noted that the school building is long , which creates a problem, how do you get parking in 1 place that is acceptable to a11 . The school is used 180 days by the students . If leisure services uses it o nights , will they have more than 230 people in the building at once The committee agreed the northern section is big enough . Dan should open up the next lower bay for the additional spaces agreed upon ( 3 70 from 00 ) . Joe suggested the parking he designed in a serpentine "S" shape fo l l owI ng the contours of the building . You could easily get 370 spaces and the parking would be closer . The committee agreed they don ' t want parking closer to the building . Norris McCloud discussed the building . - They have tried to explore materials indicative of cape cod area. They decided (3edar finish is the test example of what they should use because of its weathering nature , becomes grey in t 1 X71 with masonry block be 1 ow. -- They explored mod i T i cat i oris to the library and made the redia specialist 5