Parker Meadows Recreational Park Master Plan for the Macon County Parks and Recreation Department in Macon

County, North Carolina

Mr. Jack Horton, County Manager Mr. Seth Adams, Parks and Recreation Director Macon County 5 West Main Street Franklin, North Carolina 28734

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Table of Contents Recreational Master Plan

1.0 Executive Summary .......................................................................................................1 1.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................1 1.2 Purpose ..........................................................................................................1 2.0 Site Analysis ..................................................................................................................3 2.1 Location and Legal Description .........................................................................3 2.2 Site History ........................................................................................................3 2.3 Site Characteristics.............................................................................................5 3.0 Recreational Needs .......................................................................................................7 3.1 Benefits of Recreation........................................................................................7 3.2 Public Input ........................................................................................................8 3.3 Relationship of Existing vs. Proposed Recreational Facilities ........................10 4.0 Program Description ....................................................................................................12 4.1 Purpose.............................................................................................................12 4.2 Physical Needs of the Property ........................................................................13 5.0 Project Cost Opinion ....................................................................................................17 6.0 Preliminary Master Plan Site Layout ...........................................................................17

Exhibits
Exhibit A Preliminary Master Plan Site Layout Exhibit B Public Input Meeting Sign-In Sheets Exhibit C Public Input Meeting Comment/Ideas Sheets Exhibit D Project Cost Opinion

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1.0 Executive Summary

1.1 INTRODUCTION Macon County is located in the mountains of Western North Carolina (WNC) and is the home of the Nantahala National Forest that consists of approximately forty-six (46)-percent of the county and the Nantahala River that is a destination for many white water recreationalists. Most of Macon County is a natural recreation area covered with trails, forest, mountains, rivers, lakes, and waterfalls. Macon County borders Georgia to the south, Jackson County to the east, Cherokee and Clay County to the west, and Swain County to the north. As of 2010 the population of the county was approximately 34,000, and the county seat is Franklin, North Carolina.

1.2 PURPOSE Alliance Consulting Engineers, Inc. (herein called the Consultant) was commissioned by Macon County to develop a Master Plan for the Parker Meadows Recreational Park. The purpose of this master plan is to consider a site evaluation of the Parker Meadows Property where the park will be located, the citizens of Macon Countys input from a public input meeting held on December 20, 2012 by the Consultant and Macon County Parks and Recreation Department (MCPRD), a description of how the park will be used by the public, a description of the physical needs of the property, a preliminary project cost opinion for the proposed capital improvements within the park, and a preliminary site master plan detailing the location of the proposed park facilities. The residents of Macon County have high expectations of what should
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be provided by the public sector to satisfy the needs for recreation in the county that includes a major need for more ball fields. Macon County has not improved a facility of this magnitude in decades. Macon County can use this as support for significant investment in recreation for Macon County, specifically for the Parker Meadows Recreational Park that will supply many different recreational needs. The Parker Meadows Recreational Park in envisioned to be a destination place people will come from miles around to enjoy for many different outdoor activities

including baseball, softball, soccer, walking, jogging, picnicking, and fishing the

Cartoogachaye Creek that borders the western property line. The Park will consist of many different types of recreation facilities including four (4) youth-sized ball fields arranged in a clover leaf design, four (4) adult-sized ball fields arranged in a clover leaf design, batting cage, one multi-purpose field, a nine (9) hole frisbee golf course, multi-purpose hard surface sport court, a paved greenway, an extensive nature trail system, picnic pavilions, playgrounds, splash pad, pond, open space, fishing access to the Cartoogachaye Creek, and canoe/inner tube launch and takeout area on the Cartoogachaye Creek. The park will also include the necessary infrastructure and utilities to support the park.

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2.0 Site Analysis

2.1 LOCATION AND LEGAL DESCRIPTION The Parker Meadows Recreational Park site is located in a rural residential and agricultural area in Macon County on a 47.94 acre parcel with Parcel Identification Number (PIN) 6564802513 and with the current address of 1020 Maxwell Home Road in Franklin, Macon County, North Carolina. The property is located at the intersection of Patton Road and Maxwell Home Road off U.S. Highway 64 approximately 4.5 miles west of downtown Franklin. A legal description of the property can be found in Deed Book D-26 at Page 1202-1204 in the Macon County Courthouse Register of Deeds Office. The site is bound on the west by the Cartoogachaye Creek that the property boundary follows. The site is bound by a small tributary to the Cartoogachaye Creek along the entire south property line. The site is bound on the north by Patton Road and on the east by Maxwell Home Road. 2.2 SITE HISTORY Based on information obtained from the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) and the Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO) of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) the property was originally most likely inhabited by the Cherokee Indians. The property was later used in the 1940s by the Parker family for agriculture purposes that included pasture and crops such as hay and corn. In the 1990s the property was developed into a nine (9)-hole golf course complete with a driving range, club house, storage facility, and an irrigation
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system that was supplied by an on-site pond. In 2005, the property was purchased by Willow Creek Properties, LLC, and planned to be developed as a Recreational Vehicle (R.V.) Park. In 2008 the development of the R.V. Park was started, but was never completed. The property is currently vacant of any activity and has been since 2008. Currently the site is covered with overgrown shrubs, grass, and weeds. There are several gravel drives that enter the property from Maxwell Home Road and Patton Road. The site includes several man-made structures that were originally used when the property was operating as the Parker Meadows Golf Course as well as some improvements that were used during the construction of the R.V. Park. These structures consist of a club house, storage sheds, irrigation pump house, construction trailer, and irrigation control boxes. The structures that will remain on the property and be renovated to be included as part of the proposed recreational park include the old club house located on the southern end of the property near Maxwell Home Road and the irrigation pump house that is located adjacent to the pond on the north end of the property. The existing club house includes an operational septic system and domestic groundwater supply well and pump that will both be utilized if possible. The club house will become the on-site Macon County Parks and Recreation office and will include the addition of a maintenance garage to house the maintenance equipment that will be used for the park.

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2.3 SITE CHARECTERISTICS The topography of the Parker Meadows site is gently sloping from the east along Maxwell Home Road to west where it drains to the Cartoogachaye Creek. The site has one area with steep slopes along the north end of the property along Patton Road. The property is located on average approximately 2,100 feet above sea level. The site has a maximum elevation along Patton Road of 2,136 feet above sea level and a minimum elevation along the Cartoogachaye Creek of 2,086 feet above mean sea level. The surrounding rural residential areas outside the parcel boundaries are upgradient of the site with mostly steep slopes. The property includes several jurisdictional waters designated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACOE). These include the Cartoogachaye Creek, three (3) small streams, one (1) small pond, and a centrally located wetland. There is also one (1) isolated man-made pond on the property that is not considered jurisdictional waters per the USACOE and the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (NCDENR), and will be filled and abandoned. The Cartoogachaye Creek, which is approximately forty (40)-feet wide in many spots, runs along the entire western boundary of the property collecting the three (3) small tributary streams located within the property. One stream is located along the entire south boundary of the property and conveys from where it crosses Maxwell Home Road

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flowing northwest to where it drains to the Cartoogachaye Creek. Another stream is located on the north end of the property and conveys from where it crosses under Maxwell Home Road and flows northwest to where it flows into the small pond located below the northern slope off Patton Road. The pond is approximately 0.4 acres in size and is continually fed with fresh water from the stream. The pond includes an outfall pipe that allows overflow to return back the same stream where it drains to the Cartoogachaye Creek. There is a wetland that is approximately 1.7 aces in size, and is located in the central portion of the property. It is drained by a stream that was originally man-made and conveys northwest to the

Cartoogachaye Creek. The wetland and the other jurisdictional waters have been delineated by an environmental consultant, and we are in the process of obtaining a written verification of jurisdictional determination from the USACOE. The Parker Meadows property contains approximately 7.6 acres of floodway on the west side of the property adjacent to the Cartoogachaye Creek. No structures or fill situations are proposed for the floodway. The 100-year and 500-year flood plain transects the property from south to north and includes approximately 27.9 acres of the property. The floodway and flood plain are represented in the attached Exhibit A. The soils on the site are mostly alluvial and a residual product of weathering rock that is presently underlying the site. In general, shallow unconfined surface water movement within the overlying soils is controlled mostly by topographic gradients. However, the rock fracture systems underlying the site control the groundwater as it percolates into the soil. The groundwater

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movement may not be consistent with topography, but generally the subsurface groundwater will flow from higher elevations to the lower elevations. Groundwater will typically discharge to streams or other water bodies. Thus, the groundwater is expected to flow northwest beneath the site from Maxwell Home Road toward the Cartoogachaye Creek and may discharge into any of the streams, the wetland, or the ponds located on the site.

3.0 Recreational Needs

3.1 BENEFITS OF RECREATION Municipal Parks and Recreational Centers result in countless benefits to their communities. These benefits include environmental benefits by the introduction of large green space elements to improve stormwater quality, personal benefits such as increased cardiovascular health and self-esteem by maintaining a healthy lifestyle, social benefits for youth and adults to build strong relationships with family and new friends, economic benefits in the attraction of new businesses and tourism with the introduction of pristine recreational facilities. According to the American Planning Association (APA) other benefits can include the following:

Parks are one of the quickest and most effective ways to build a sense of community and improve the quality of life.

Green spaces are gathering places where people

can form social ties that produce stronger, safer communities.

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Community Parks engage children in informal, experiential learning through play and shared experiences, with peers, laying the foundation for effective formal education and providing valuable resources for closing the educational gap in communities.

Parks provide people contact with nature, known to confer certain health benefits and enhance well-being and provide physical activity opportunities that help to increase fitness and reduce obesity.

Communities need to provide all types of parks to provide their various citizen groups with a range of health benefits.

Parks provide sites for special events, festivals, and sports tournaments that can attract tourists and be sources of economic benefits for smaller cities.

According to the National Recreation and Parks Association Air Quality Effects of Urban Trees and Parks produced in 2010 by D. Nowak and G. Heisler, It is estimated that U.S. urban park trees alone remove 75,000 tons of air pollutants annually. This translates into an economic benefit of $500 million each year.

3.2 PUBLIC INPUT Macon County Parks and Recreation

Department continues to face the challenges of a rapidly growing and dispersed population coupled with currently inadequate amounts of ball fields for the community to use. The lack of fields for baseball and softball practice and games causes adult and youth teams to play late into the evenings on school and work days. MCPRD and the Consultant organized and coordinated a Public Input
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Meeting at the Macon County Community Facilities Building in Franklin, North Carolina on December 20, 2012. The meeting was scheduled in order to allow the Macon County Community to comment on the planning and understand the progress of the proposed Parker Meadows Recreational Park Master Plan. This Public Input Meeting was intended to be for informational purposes only. More than sixty (66) community members and interested public attended the meeting as can be seen on the attached sign-in sheet as Exhibit B. The Consultant and members of the MCPRD staff answered questions from individuals as they studied the many Preliminary Master Plan Site Layout Maps that were placed around the room. Members of the community were encouraged to complete a Parker Meadows Recreational Park Master Plan Participation and Preference Survey, as well as add any comments they may have about the Preliminary Site Layout. The comments recorded at the Public Input Meeting can be seen in the attached Parker Meadows Recreational Park Comments/Ideas sheet as Exhibit C. Of the fifty-one (51) comments received at the meeting, forty-two (42) comments were in support of the project, and thirty (30) of the positive comments expressed the need for more ball fields and/or the need for more recreation facilities in the county. Approximately nine (9) of the comments were related to concerns about the Parker Meadows Recreational Park that included issues such as traffic, noise, lighting, curfew, construction noise, and eliminating the access road entrance on Maxwell Home Road. The Consultant and the MCPRD Director gave a presentation explaining the history of the project, proposed plans for the park, and information about the progress of the due diligence that had occurred for the property. After the presentation was completed a question and answer session was conducted, which allowed many of the concerns that were on the comments sheets to

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be expressed. Many of the community members that had concerns at the beginning of the meeting felt much better about the proposed development after getting their questions answered. 3.3 REALTIONSHIP OF EXISTING VS. PROPOSED RECREATIONAL FACILITIES In 2005, Macon County developed an initial Comprehensive Recreation Master Plan to assist the county in developing parks and recreational areas throughout Macon County to meet the needs of the community. During the

development of the Comprehensive Recreation Master Plan, one hundred and eighty-seven (187) Recreation Participation and Preference Surveys were completed by residents of Macon County. The majority of residents that completed a survey ranged between the ages of thirty-one (31) and forty-five (45) years. Detailed information from these surveys can be reviewed in the Macon County Recreation Master Plan. As can be seen on page sixteen (16) of the Master Plan, many survey participants stated they hope to have more ball fields and open space areas for practice and games of traditional active sports (baseball, football, soccer). MCPRD staff was also asked for input on what recreational facilities they believed were needed for the residents of Macon County. The summary of the opinions from the staff can be seen on page seventeen (17) of the Recreation Master Plan that includes the opinion that an increase in the number of regulation fields is needed in the county. As the participation in recreational activities grows in Macon County due to population growth and popularity of sports, the need for more ball fields in the county has become an ongoing necessity. This growth over the last couple of decades has caused scheduling

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conflicts for ball fields and the need for more practice and game time on ball fields in the county. The county currently has approximately eight (8) ball fields ranging in size from youth to adult. The limited number of these types of facilities causes issues such as fields having no chance for rest with little time to refurbish or even maintain the fields. Most fields are being used four (4) to six (6) days a week, requiring some practices and games to be played well into the night. The MCPRD Director has been searching for a potential property in the county to accommodate more baseball and softball fields for youth and adults for many years. The Parker Meadows Master Plan proposes to add four (4) adult ball fields and four (4) youth ball fields to the counties ball field inventory. This will greatly alleviate some of the scheduling conflicts for games and practice time for softball and baseball. The addition of the two (2) clover leaf style ball field clusters, each including four (4) fields, will also allow the county to invite adult and youth programs from around the area to host tournaments on the weekends. This will provide a positive economic impact to the county as many tournaments will bring hundreds of individuals to the area for an entire weekend. We feel the addition of the Parker Meadows Recreational Park will fulfill many needs of the county for ball fields, open space, and many other recreational needs of the county.

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4.0 Program Description

4.1 PURPOSE The Parker Meadows Recreational Park will be a destination place for many families and sports enthusiasts alike. The Park will consist of recreational facilities that will provide interests for a broad range of people of all ages ranging from children to senior citizens. Families or individuals will be able to enjoy the park for active sports such as baseball, softball, basketball, lacrosse, and soccer; wellness sports such as walking, jogging, hiking, biking, roller blading, frisbee golf, pickleball, bocce ball, and croquet; and nature loving sports such as canoeing, inner tubing, fishing, nature walking, wildlife observation, and picnicking. The park will be designed to meet the interests and needs of many community activists. The Parker Meadows Recreational Park will be a great asset to Macon County and its community. Parks and recreational facilities make communities desirable places to live, work, play, and visit, thereby contributing to the wellness and ongoing economic vitality of communities and businesses throughout the county. Parks, greenways, and open spaces are critical components to protecting and preserving our natural environment as well as improving wellness and health for those that enjoy them. The park will be designed to offer residents of Macon County and surrounding counties many different benefits that include social, personal, environmental and economic
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benefits. Some social benefits will include meeting new people, interaction of adults and children, interacting with large groups, and community awareness. Personal benefits will include such things as health and wellness, fitness and conditioning, entertainment and having fun, learning and education, and relaxation. The environmental benefits will consist of breathing fresh air, being a part of nature, protecting the natural environment, and simply being outdoors. A few economic benefits will include attracting tourists, attracting industry and business to the area, and bringing large groups of people to Macon County for multiple days by hosting baseball and softball tournaments. 4.2 PHYSICAL NEEDS OF THE PROPERTY The Parker Meadows Recreational Park property is located in a rural residential and agricultural area on a 47.94 acre parcel in Macon County, North Carolina. The property is located at the intersection of Patton Road and Maxwell Home Road off U.S. Highway 64. Macon County will have to purchase the property from a private land owner. Currently, Macon County is under contract with an offer to purchase the property. If Macon County does not purchase the property it is likely that it will go into foreclosure, at which time it will be sold on the County Courthouse steps where it could be sold to a private developer. If a private developer is able to acquire the property, it could be developed into many different things that might not be conducive to the surrounding community.

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The Parker Meadows property is relatively flat with a an average approximate slope of two (2)-percent across the property falling from Maxwell Home Road northwest to the Cartoogachaye Creek. Currently the property is covered with overgrown weeds and grass, and contains clusters of trees spread around the property that were in place to assist in defining the old Parker Meadows Golf Course fairways. The property also includes several jurisdictional waters such as a wetland, streams, and the Cartoogachaye Creek, which will all be used as discharge locations for the post-development

stormwater runoff. The proposed development of the park has been designed to save the natural tree clusters where possible, and maintain and enhance the existing natural pre-development hydrology of the watershed where possible by implementing Low Impact

Development (LID) design standards. All of the recreational facilities proposed for the park will be new construction since the property is currently vacant of these facilities. The facilities will be complete with lighting throughout the park to accommodate evening recreation and play. The recreation facilities will also include ADA accessibility for the ballfields, paved greenway, playground, and the picnic pavilion with bathrooms located on the west side of the park. The Park will consist of many different types of recreation facilities including four (4) youth-sized ball fields for baseball and softball ranging from one hundred ninety (190)-feet to two hundred and fifty (250)-feet, four (4) adult-sized ball fields for baseball and softball ranging from two hundred ninety (290)-feet to three hundred (300)-feet, a batting cage with three (3)

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lanes, one two hundred and forty (240)-foot multi-purpose field for soccer, lacrosse, or open field play, a nine (9) hole frisbee golf course, a full size multi-purpose hard surface court for such things as basketball and pickleball, an eight (8)foot wide paved greenway around the adult ballfields, an extensive nature trail system around the perimeter and interior of the park, a covered picnic pavilion with bathrooms and picnic tables on the west side of the park, two (2) covered picnic pavilions with picnic tables on the northeast and southwest side of the park, playgrounds, a splash pad, a pond, open space, fishing accesses to the Cartoogachaye Creek, and canoe/inner tube launch and takeout area on the upstream and downstream side of the Cartoogachaye Creek. The ballfields will be constructed to include lighting, bleachers, dugouts, perimeter fencing, and backstop fencing. Each ball field clover leaf will also include a concession/announcers box structure to support the fields during games and tournaments. The concession areas will include food services that does not require a grease trap. The Parker Meadows Recreational Park property includes an existing stick built structure that was originally used as a club house for the old golf course, which will be renovated to become the MCPRD on-site administrative office. A storage shed/garage will be built next to the existing structure to house all the maintenance equipment that will be required to maintain the site after it has been developed. Other structures that will be constructed on the site for the park will include two (2) approximately twelve hundred (1200)-square foot, two (2) story concessions/announcers box complete with bathrooms for each clover leaf, a picnic pavilion on

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the west side of the property that will include bathrooms, and two (2) other picnic pavilions without bathrooms at each end of the park. All of these structures are designed to be outside of the floodway, and only the pavilion with bathrooms on the west side of the site will be in the flood plain. The old club house structure includes an existing twelve (12) gallon per minute groundwater well for potable water service and septic system that will both be utilized for the new development. The existing well will be upgraded to also accommodate the concessions/announcers box with bathrooms for the adult fields, and the pavilion with the bathrooms that will be located on the west side of the property. The concessions/announcers box for the adult fields will use a gravity wastewater system to convey flows to a duplex grinder pump station that will be located near the picnic pavilion with bathrooms. This pump station will use a force main to convey the wastewater to the approved septic field that will be located on the slope near the intersection of Maxwell Home Road and Patton Road, which can be seen in Exhibit A. The concessions/announcers box with bathrooms for the youth fields will require a new groundwater well to be constructed to supply the structure with domestic potable water service. It will also include a gravity wastewater system to convey flows to a duplex grinder pump station that will be located on the outside perimeter of the youth fields. The pump station will also use a force main to convey the wastewater to the approved and permitted septic field located on the slope near the intersection of Maxwell Home Road and Patton Road.

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A twenty-four (24)-foot wide access road with a tar and chat all weather surface will be constructed for the park that will enter the site on the north side off Patton Road and continue thru the site to access the recreational facilities and the needed parking lots. The access road is also planned to include an emergency ingress/egress access off Maxwell Home Road that will include emergency breakaway bollards. The parking lots are strategically located throughout the park to allow easy access to different areas of the park and will also use the tar and chat all weather surfaces for construction. Both the access road and the parking lots will not use curb and gutter to allow for stormwater runoff to be collected using bio-swales and roadside ditches. LID is an approach to land development that works with nature to manage stormwater as close to its source as possible. The stormwater facilities for the park are planned to utilize LID principles such as preserving and recreating natural landscape features, and minimizing effective imperviousness to create functional and appealing site drainage that treat stormwater as a resource rather than a waste product. There are many practices that will used to adhere to these principles such as bio-swales, bio-retention facilities, constructed wetlands, and rain gardens. By implementing these LID principles and practices, stormwater can be managed in a way that reduces the impact of built areas and promotes the natural movement of water within an ecosystem or watershed.

5.0 Project Cost Opinion

The Project Cost Opinion is represented on the attached Exhibit D.

6.0 Preliminary Master Plan Site Layout

The Preliminary Master Pan Site Layout is represented on the attached Exhibit A.

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Parker Meadows Recreational Park Sigh-in Sheet

Project Name: Due Diligence and Grant Assistance for the Parker Meadows Recreational Park in Macon County, North Carolina 12201-1056 Macon County Community Facilities Building in Franklin December 20, 2012 @ 5:30 PM

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NAME
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Butch Jean Karen Carpenter Dennis Johnson Virgil Valentine Narelle Kirkland Dick & Janet Moulton Jim & Carol Kitzner Levi Wilkins Jan Sharp Kristy Swafford Fred Haller Lee Melsek Danny Siek Mike Vincent George Bauman carolvin@yahoo.com lmelsek@gmail.com jraesharp@gmail.com joeandkristy@frontier.com mjandick@aol.com bigv_sr@yahoo.com

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ADDRESS
494 Chapel Hill dr 1100 Louisa Chapel rd 247 McClure rd 105 Airport rd Lloyd Tallent rd 196 Parker Farm rd Maclor Forest 24 Cottontail ln 3960 Patton rd 965 Bennett rd 607 Rabbit Creek rd 34 Parker Farm Estates 29 Summertime Hill President of HHHOA 492 Cannon Trail 160 Cannon Trail
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PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY NAME 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. Mike Gibson Kevin Corbin Jarret Calloway Larry Penland Vince West Matt Mason Kaitlin Sanders James Orr Chris McGuire Byron McClure Joel Swafford Nick Birchard Danny Davis Greg Simon Mary Simon Nikki Adams David W Taylor Andrew Raby Edward Styles Larry Pickens Mike Carpenter EMAIL 5fabgibson@gmail.com corbin@dnet.net Jarret.calloway@gmail.com larryp@dnet.net vincewest@touchnc.net mmason@maconnc.org kmsanders3@catamount.wcu.edu orrjb71@gmail.com Cdmkdm802@gmail.com bmcclure@dnet.net joel.swafford@drakesoftware.com nick.birchard@gmail.com Kablestud30032003@yahoo.com nomisgm@yahoo.com nomisgm@yahoo.com Nikkiadams55@yahoo.com dwtaylor1206@gmail.com 379 Sramey Mtn. rd 5391 Sylva rd 364 Counry rd 214 W Coventry rd 147 Sutton ln 465 Bennett rd 1703 Frazier rd 75 Mountainside rd 124 Cannon tr. 124 Cannon tr 341 Maclor Forest cr 907 Corbin rd ADDRESS 98 Granny Kate ln PO Box 758 15 Glory rd 416 Hunnicutt ln

Andrew.Raby@drakesoftware.com 259 Coweeta lake cr 354 Parker Farm Estates 678 Mason Branch rd 1100 Louisa Chapel rd
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PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY NAME 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. Jonathan Williamson Michael Carpenter Bill Harkins Dianna Harkins Ralph Sanders Allen Steinman Marc Sharp Gabe Pickens Crystal Harkins Renee Burt Bryan Burt Lee Cloer Keith Giles Mike Woodard Paul Harkins Kim Terrell Chandler Harkins Nancy Falkenstein Mike Falkenstein Robert Browning Kevin Kussow nancyfalkenstein@hotmail.com michaelfalkenstein@live.com kvterrell@hotmail.com Naynay21@frontier.com Bburt1973@yahoo.com lcloer@dnet.net newsradio@gacaradio.com pickens@dnet.net Abba66@bellsouth.net dharkins.1959@yahoo.com Michaelcarpenter62@gmail.com EMAIL 700 Potts Branch rd 1100 Louisa chapel rd PO Box 481 Otto, NC 28763 PO Box 481 Otto, NC 28763 3019 Wide Horizon dr 80 Goodview tr 3960 Patton rd 678 Mason Branch rd PO Box 75 Otto, NC 28763 314 Pressley rd 314 Pressley rd 1349 Ridge Rd 61 Nash Hill dr 241 Marshwood way 4408 Tessentee rd. Otto, NC 165 Old Laurel ln 4408 Tessenteee rd. Otto, NC 119 Pinecrest dr 119 Pinecrest dr

robert.browning@drakesoftware.com 103A Willow View dr 300 Ledford ln Otto

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NAME 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. Amber Raby Ryan Raby Maurice Bishop Laura Bishop Mike Williams Todd Ensley Wendy Moore Sean Moore Brandon Williams

EMAIL 122 Gibson Cove Estates ryan.raby@macon.k12.nc.us moknows1@frontier.com chiborn@frontier.com m.williams2681@frontier.com todd4ensly@yahoo.com swmoore@dnet.net swmoore@dnet.net bewilliams@catamount.wcu.edu 122 Gibson Cove Estates 197 Tiger Lily tr 197 Tiger Lily tr 108 White Oak cr PO Box 1822 214 Palmer dr 214 Palmer dr 1490 Coweeta Lab rd

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Parker Meadows Recreational Park Comments/Ideas Sheet

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Due Diligence and Grant Assistance for the Parker Meadows Recreational Park in Macon County, North Carolina 12201-1056 Macon County Community Facilities Building in Franklin December 20, 2012 @ 5:30 PM

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NAME 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Fred Haller Kevin Kussow Todd Ensley Danny Davis Ben ? Ben Vanhook Greg Simon Mary Simon Mike Vincent Andrew Raby MALE OR FEMALE Male Male Male Male Male Male Male Female Male Male AGE 82 48 42 50 76 30 62 61 75 26 COMMENTS / IDEAS Need more fields and other courts (tennis, pickleball. Croquet, bocce) We need to provide more opportunity for not only our youth, but all ages in Macon County. The economic impact will be enormous! Need more fields for youth We need these fields drastically for youth and adults. Eliminate Entrance from Maxwell Home rd We need this facility Hope they have shield on lights to block lighting from residence Same as above Curfew of activities, save more trees, noise (something illegible) Strong need to expand current facilities for youth
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PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY NAME 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. Mike Carpenter Karen Carpenter Allen Steinman Bryan Burt Renee Burt Robert Browning Nikki Adams Michael Carpenter Paul Harkins Larry Pickens Dianna Harkins Crystal Harkins Mike Woodard Mike Gibson Lee Cloer Nancy Falkenstein MALE OR FEMALE Male Female Male Male Female Male Female Male Male Male Female Female Male Male Male Female AGE 44 42 65 39 37 23 32 21 36 44 53 35 44 40 42 60+ Need more ballfields Need more rec areas to help keep our kids out of trouble The impact on the residential communities along Maxwell Home rd will be devastating!! Traffic, lights, etc We need to be focusing on our youth more Need to expand facilities in Macon co. We need to host more travel tournaments to bring funds to Macon County Need improved facilities for future youth here in Macon County and Western North Carolina Great facility. Excited to see this for our community We need these ballfields Too many kids and not enough places to play. Need additional fields The ballfields are needed for the kids and for the economic growth for the county Need more areas for our kids to stay involved in good sports and other activities Need more fields to allow our kids to play ball. Not cow pastures. Need more fields for our kids The needs for ballfields are here We need these for all our kids, need it for the families! Concerned with lights, noise, traffic controls-other uses too-tennis, croquet, pickleball
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PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY NAME 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. Janet Moulton Ryan Raby Amber Raby Larry Penland Chris McGuire Billy Vanhook Bryon Lamb Celena Lamb Joel Swafford Butch Jean Dalona Johnson David Taylor Dennis Johnson Bill Harkins Jan Sharp Kim Terrell MALE OR FEMALE Female Male Female Male Male Male Male Female Male Male Female Male Male Male Female Female 73 41 AGE 78 34 31 54 37 56 38 38 41 57 38 38 39 COMMENTS/IDEAS Barrier around 3 sides of trees, relocate ball diamonds farther NW. No ballgames on Sundays and holidays . Tax bills diminished to reflect decreased valuations. This is a chance to invest in our CHILDREN. How can this be bad? Same as above Fields needed badly for boys and girls We need this for all the kids in Macon County. Its better to have kids playing sports and learning sportsmanship than going out and getting into trouble Much needed ballfields We need these fields we always travel to Cherokee or TN for any tournaments Same as above Much needed ball fields for kids of County We get 1 hours per week to practice on a real field. As a baseball coach, we need more fields Much needed facility Very much needed for more modern up to date facilities Much needed no room for kids to practice and play Help our kids in County Much Needed Running and walking trail should not be paved- mulch- (something illegible) The children of Macon Co deserve improved and better facilities
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PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY NAME 43. Dick Moulton (Parker Farms) 44. Mark Sharp (Parker Farms) 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58.
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MALE OR FEMALE Male Male Male Male Male Female Male Female Male

AGE 70+ 60+ 35 31 67 49 21 18 64

COMMENTS/IDEAS No back up alarms during grading No working on the weekends Eliminate Maxwell Home Rd entrance JUST DO IT Need more fields for our kids Great! Greatly needed! Need more fields! Same as above I have lived in Heritage Hills subdivision (near proposed project) for 8 years, and I am in favor of this.

Byron McClure Jarrett Calloway Vince West Laura Bishop Brandon Williams Kaitlin Sanders Bruce Tanner

Project Cost Opinion Parker Meadows Recreational Park Master Plan Macon County, North Carolina
Description of Item Domestic Water 2 PVC (ASTM D 2241) Water Main 2" Valve & Box 2" Backflow Prevention 2" Fittings and Misc. 1 PE Service Tubing Domestic Water Well @ 12 GPM Sub-Total for Water Wastewater 4" Gravity Sewer Line (0'-6') with Cleanouts every 75-feet for Adult Fields Septic System for Fields with Max Capacity of 1650 GPD Grinder Duplex Pump Station for Adult Fields and Playground Area 2" PVC Force Main for Playground Area to Septic 4" Gravity Sewer Line (0'-6') w/Cleanouts for Youth Fields Grinder Duplex Pump Station for Youth Fields 2" PVC Force Main for Youth Fields to Septic Sub-Total for Wastewater Grading, Storm Drainage and Erosion Control Mobilization Bonds Earthwork Fine Grading (fields) 18 Storm Drain Pipeline 36 Storm Drain Pipeline Catch Basin Catch Basin Protection Headwall for 36" Inlet Pipes for Stream Crossings Forebay for Wetlands Bio Swales / Roadside Ditch Erosion Control Matting for Ditches Miscellaneous Segmental Retaining Walls and Associated Foundations Temporary Construction Entrance/Exit Silt Fence Riprap Check Dam Riprap Berm Temporary Sediment Basin with Coir Mesh and Skimmer Erosion Control Matting for Steep Slopes Grassing-Hydroseeding Sub-Total for Rough Grading Plan (Under Contract) Fencing & Ornamental Wall 4' Chain Link Fencing Green Monster Fencing 25' Chain Link Backstop Fencing-Small Fields 25' Chain Link Backstop Fencing-Large Fields Sub-Total for Fencing & Ornamental Wall Parking Lot & Drives 6 Stabilized Aggregate Base Course for Parking Lot & Drives Prime Coat for Parking Lot & Drives Tar and Chat Surface Course for Parking Lot & Drives Concrete Sidewalks in Complex around Towers and for ADA Accessibility Road Signage Sub-Total for Parking Lot & Drives Site Electrical & Lighting (Including Conduit & Conductor) 30' Streetlights for Parking Lot & Walking Trail 70' Directional Field Lights and all the Miscellaneous Electrical Required Sub-Total for Site Electrical & Lighting (Including Conduit & Conductor) Buildings Adult Center Tower w/ Bathrooms (2-Story; 1st-20'x30'; 2nd-20'x30') Youth Center Tower w/ Bathrooms (2-Story; 1st-20'x30'; 2nd-20'x30') Dugouts (Adult) Dugouts (Youth) Maintenance Building (Pre-Engineered Metal) Playground Shelter with Bathrooms at 600 SF Picnic Shelter (Total of 2 at 500 SF Each) Sub-Total for Buildings Landscaping, Irrigation, & Greenway/Nature Trails Landscaping Allowance Irrigation Assessment and Repair Irrigation Distribution System Greenway (8-foot wide, Paved, 3000 Linear Feet) Nature Trail (4-foot wide, Natural Surface) Sub-Total for Landscaping & Irrigation Miscellaneous Playground Allowance Splash Pad Allowance Fitness Stations Allowance Hard Surface Sport Court 9-Hole Frisbee Golf Course Allowance Roadway Entrance Signs Aluminum Bleachers w/ Guardrail (10 Rows; 15' Long; 2 per Large Field) Aluminum Bleachers w/ Guardrail (5 Rows; 21' Long; 2 per Small Field) Sub-Total for Miscellaneous Unit Quantities Unit Cost $6.00 $200.00 $400.00 $2,000.00 $2.00 $20,000.00 Total Item Cost $12,000.00 $1,200.00 $800.00 $2,000.00 $400.00 $20,000.00 $36,400.00 $9,000.00 $25,000.00 $25,000.00 $7,560.00 $3,600.00 $20,000.00 $2,250.00 $92,410.00 $30,000.00 $450,000.00 $75,000.00 $75,000.00 $13,500.00 $26,400.00 $5,400.00 $10,000.00 $8,000.00 $21,000.00 $12,000.00 $37,500.00 $1,250.00 $6,840.00 $12,200.00 $4,000.00 $5,000.00 $36,000.00 $12,000.00 $75,000.00 $916,090.00 $68,250.00 $8,750.00 $30,000.00 $40,000.00 $147,000.00 $285,000.00 $9,500.00 $85,500.00 $75,000.00 $3,000.00 $458,000.00 $200,000.00 $700,000.00 $900,000.00 $90,000.00 $90,000.00 $40,000.00 $28,000.00 $75,000.00 $39,000.00 $35,000.00 $397,000.00 $100,000.00 $5,000.00 $10,000.00 $60,000.00 $39,000.00 $214,000.00 $100,000.00 $100,000.00 $20,000.00 $50,000.00 $13,500.00 $20,000.00 $68,000.00 $40,000.00 $411,500.00

LF EA EA LS LF LS

2,000 6 2 1 200 1

LF LS LS LF LF LS LF

750 1 1 1,260 300 1 375

$12.00 $25,000.00 $25,000.00 $6.00 $12.00 $20,000.00 $6.00

LS LS LS LF LF EA EA EA LS LF SF SF EA LF SY EA EA EA SF AC

1 1 1 2,500 150 12 12 4 4 3500 2000 1,500 1 1,800 200 10 4 4 2000 25.0

$30,000.00 $450,000.00 $75,000.00 $30.00 $90.00 $2,200.00 $450.00 $2,500.00 $2,000.00 $6.00 $6.00 $25.00 $1,250.00 $3.80 $61.00 $400.00 $1,250.00 $9,000.00 $6.00 $3,000.00

LF LF EA EA

6,500 350 4 4

$10.50 $25.00 $7,500.00 $10,000.00

SY SY SY SY EA

19,000 19,000 19,000 3,000 20

$15.00 $0.50 $4.50 $25.00 $150.00

EA LS

40 1

$5,000.00 $700,000.00

SF SF EA EA SF SF SF

1,200 1,200 8 8 1,000 600 1,000

$75.00 $75.00 $5,000.00 $3,500.00 $75.00 $65.00 $35.00

LS LS LS SY LF

1 1 1 2,000 6,500

$100,000.00 $5,000.00 $10,000.00 $30.00 $6.00

LS LS EA LS LS EA EA EA

1 1 4 1 1 2 8 8

$100,000.00 $100,000.00 $5,000.00 $50,000.00 $13,500.00 $10,000.00 $8,500.00 $5,000.00

SUB-TOTAL ARCHEOLOGY, DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS TESTING PROPERTY ACQUISITION CONTINGENCY TOTAL
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$3,572,400.00 $400,000.00 $25,000.00 $550,000.00 $352,600.00 $4,900,000.00