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NC State consultant outlines two-year facilities, enrollment and transportation plan for Orange County Schools
Summary
Consultants from NC State told the Orange County Schools board they will produce an integrated two-year facility plan combining design capacity, enrollment cohort modeling, rooftops/land-use projections and bus-route analysis; staff described procurement steps and a $42.9M GMP target for the new elementary project.
The Orange County Schools board heard a two-part facilities briefing Wednesday that combined a district review of building capacity and a presentation by NC State planners on enrollment forecasting and neighborhood-level planning.
Matthew Palmer of the NC State consulting team told the board the firm will “bring that together over the arc of the next two years,” combining design-capacity analysis, cohort retention projections, rooftops/land-use work and the state TIMS bus-routing tools so the district can compare discrete boundary and siting scenarios. Palmer said the work will create neighborhood planning units — micro-geographies intended to show average ride times, vehicle miles traveled and the number of buses required under…
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