From winterety at sbcglobal.net Sun Jan 7 20:43:09 2007 From: winterety at sbcglobal.net (sheryl lynn gerety) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 20:43:09 -0800 Subject: [OldNorth] King High School Project Message-ID: <857a0b66b81652e465e6d57ec6e5d8da@sbcglobal.net> Below you will find a memo from the ONDNA Board concerning the King High School Project: Sunday, January 7, 2007 To: Bill Emlen, Davis City Manager David Murphy, Superintendent Davis Joint Unified District School Board From: Sheryl Gerety, President, Old North Davis Neighborhood Association Board Subject: King High School [1) Proposed Tree Mitigation, 2) Basketball court, 3) Driveway access to single-car auto shop] The Davis Enterprise on Sunday, November 7, 2007, reports that a "King High Land Swap Deal [has been] Reached," signaling resumption of this project is imminent. There are at least three components of the new King High School plan that should be brought to the neighbors for discussion before everything is finalized and construction resumed. Although, the article mentions you intend to discuss the tree mitigation elements of the deal with the neighbors, to our knowledge there has been no effort to make contact. The Old North Davis Neighborhood Association is especially concerned to have input on the topics of tree mitigation, the siting of the basketball court and handling of impacts from it, and the siting of the driveway access planned for the single-car auto shop. The loss of the mature pine trees on the far side of B Street is an issue for Old North residents. It is unfortunate that the plans drawn up for the new high school did not accommodate the trees' existing root structure. We want to be involved in discussions of mitigation. The siting of the basketball court is another matter of interest to neighbors on B and C Streets, since noise, night lighting, unsupervised use outside school hours and presumably heavier use of the park at night will affect us all. As a matter of courtesy, the auto shop itself as well as the location of driveway access to the auto shop is also something we would like to discuss since few of our members have actually seen plans showing the shop and its connection to the street. We applaud discussions between Council and School Board members, and the expressed wish to include affected residents. Please let us know how we can join you talk about these important issues. Sheryl Gerety winterety at sbcglobal.net oldnorth at mailman.dcn.org 758-3990 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2330 bytes Desc: not available URL: