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MEMORANDUM <br />To: Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners <br />From: Kassie Goodson Watts/Planner <br />Subject: Reservation of Capacity and Capacity Schedule for Alexander Estates <br />Date: 4/14/2008 <br />Mr. Brian Huntley, (10931 Williams Road, Charlotte, NC 2822" requests a xeseroation of capacity <br />for Alexander Estates Subdivision, which consists of 19 single-family residential lots on +/- 54.35 <br />acres located north of the intersection of Lower Rocky River Road and Morrison Road in <br />unincorporated Cabarrus County. <br />School Capacity Review <br />Alexander Estates subdivision will produce 11 students. The schools impacted by the subdivision aze <br />Bethel Elementary School, C.C. Griffin Middle School and Hickory Ridge High School. <br />The county's capital improvements plan (CIP) includes construction of an A.T. Allen Elementary <br />replacement in 2009 and the construction of two new elementary schools to be occupied in 2010. <br />One to be located southeast of Rocky Rivet Elementary on the Grace site, the other located south of <br />Harrisburg. These schools would relieve A.T. Allen, Bethel, Harrisburg, and Rocky Rivet Elementary <br />Schools. <br />The CIP also includes construction of a new middle school in 2010 south of Harrisburg that would <br />relieve C.C. Griffin Middle School, Mt. Pleasant Middle School and J.N. Fries Middle School. <br />The following table indicates the available school capacity, based on current conditions and the CIP: <br /> <br /> <br />School Current <br />Available <br />Ca aci Planned <br />Capacity <br />2 Yrs Planned <br />Capacity <br />5 Yrs <br />Bethel Elements School -534 -312 -312 <br />C.C. Griffin Middle School -803 196 196 <br />Hicko Rid a Hi h School 403 403 403 <br />This table assumes that no redistricting occurs either before or after the new schools planned or <br />under construction are opened. <br />Adequacy Determination <br />As illustrated above, adequate school capacity does not exist cttnently, nor does it exist for this <br />subdivision at the two year level. School capacity is also inadequate for this subdivision at the five <br />year review level. (Note that according to Section 15-11, Number 5 of the APFO, future available <br />capacity must be "...greater than or equal to the projected enrollment that will be produced by the <br />proposed development fox all school types," not just one ox two). <br />G-a <br />