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5. Co- Location and Shared Facilities (Optional): Due to a shortage of affordable land for schools, shared sites should be considered if a relationship helps to avoid issues of traffic congestion, safety issues, and incompatibility with the surrounding area can be minimized. Shared sites allow for middle and high schools to share stadium facilities and other amenities. Identify all existing area schools and related facilities within district boundaries, including schools, athletic fields, parks, pools and other civic uses. Schools should be located to facilitate joint use of the site with broader community uses and, civic and institutional organizations. SCHOOL SITES AND RELATIONSHIPS TO SURROUNDINGS A school facility must be properly integrated into the surrounding community. This section details the relationships different types of facilities should have to their surroundings and how these issues should guide site selection. 1. Relationship to Attendance Area a. Schools should be located as close as possible to the center of the attendance area they serve. b. Attendance areas should recognize major arterial streets as limits whenever possible. Cases where attendance areas extend across major arterial streets, particularly for elementary and middle school attendance areas, should be avoided. 2. Relationship to Neighborhoods a. Elementary and Middle Schools L Avoid siting schools at the rear of existing or future neighborhoods as these locations lack prominence and visibility, deter accessibility and create traffic issues within residential portions of neighborhood. ii. Site elementary schools internally to the existing or future residential neighborhood and not along major arterial roads. Considered a community center, or anchor, within its context; it should be connected to the surrounding community fabric. iii. Site middle schools on the perimeter of the neighborhood where vehicular access from major arterial roads can be accomplished with minimal intrusion of vehicular traffic to the neighborhood. b. High Schools L Due to their need for a larger expanse of land than an elementary or middle school, and potential conflict with adjacent land uses due to athletic field lighting and noise, high schools should be placed on the edge of the neighborhood(s) it serves and buffered from adjacent land uses. ii. High schools should have indirect and /or direct access from arterial streets. k . a+ Pk School facility as anchor in the community, with neighborhood park /athletic fields available for use by the community. SITE SELECTION Attachment number 1 PAGE 02 F -10 Page 186