Kent Worley, one of Duluth’s most accomplished landscape architects keeps fretting over the Ordean Highschool site. He’s been on a cross country tour and made a point of looking at excellent high schools across the nation. Here is his brief comparison of first rate high school grounds and Ordean’s siting.<\/p>\n
6 to 8 tennis courts; Ordean will have none.<\/p>\n
1-2 baseball fields; Ordean will have one.<\/p>\n
1-2 softball fields; Ordean may have one.<\/p>\n
1 football\/soccer field; Ordean will have one.<\/p>\n
1 football\/soccer practice field; Ordean will have none.<\/p>\n
Running track; Ordean will have none.<\/p>\n
700-900 parking spaces for this population school; Ordean will have only half, or 440.<\/p>\n
600-800 linear ft. of student drop off walk and curb; Ordean will unsafely use 40th Ave and Superior Street.<\/p>\n
20-25 bus parking student drop area; Ordean space will be fortunate to have 1\/3 of this.<\/p>\n
Buildings are typically set back from collector streets 300 to 600+ feet; Ordean will be 40 [only forty] feet away from a major street, about 2 \u00c2\u00bd car lengths away]<\/p>\n
General open space for parking\/driving pedestrian safety; Ordean will have little to none.<\/p>\n
Outdoor nature or outdoor classroom areas; Current JCI plan shows clearing and filling the one high quality natural feature on site.<\/p>\n
Runoff pond collection spaces; Ordean will have limited to no space for this.<\/p>\n
Building isolation from surrounding traffic noise and vehicular fumes; Ordean will need to keep windows closed for sound and air quality control.<\/p>\n
Sites need space for expansion—often buildings & athletics expand 1\/3 and more; Ordean will have no space for this.<\/p>\n
Schools have normal support needs for deliveries, storage, maintenance equipment and parking and reasonable space between all these features which are necessary for site utility, safety, appearance and flexibility; Ordean will not fit all these needs on the 26 to 34 acres being proposed, less the 4 acres of unbuildable land.<\/p>\n
Oh, by the way, the state’s recommended minimum site sizes mean 50 to 55 acres of BUILDABLE land; Ordean has over 4 acres in completely unbuldable steep slope and ravine \/ stream condition, so the 26 acres is really only 22. Compare that to the recommended 50 to 55 acres of buildable terrain this state knows by experience is required. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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