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� Office Planning Hours December 3, 1986 C.� Page 3 .� The School Board has also received an expression of interest from the United States Postal Service through Jack Tragiai, who expressed interest in the Lexington site. They have also received an inquiry from Twin City Federal and Rose Galleries with respect to the Lexington site. Twin City Federal's interest, however, would seem more appropriate for the Fair-- view site. We agreed at the meeting that most potential users would likely not consider keeping the Lexington School building, but that potential users would likely propose reuse of the Fairview School structure. � � The overall objective af the Committee's recommendations was to dispose of land and structures not considered essential, and to put that money into capitalizing the construction of additional elementary classrooms which will be needed and likely added to th� Little Canada School. The Parkview School is to be kept as a Community School Center, and is proposed to house a single Senior Citizen's progra�m, a single early childhood education program, and a single preschool development program as well as a di5trict- wide elem�ntary alternative program. Bob noted that the County is also interested in the Cap�.tol View Schnol as a Suburban County Admini�trative Center. �n t�at scenario, the gym and pool would remain open to the public. If that happeras, Fairview would not likely be solci for at least four to fiv� years. Bob notes that Fairview is likely to be sold in at least ten years for sure, no matter what the scenarios. Parkview is considered to be the least salable school with a fairly new structure and thus a.s proposed as a community scho�l cent�r. Thus, assuming the retention of Capitol View as a i�liddle School, th� School District facilities would in�:lucie a i�igh school, one middle school, and six elementary schoals. I not�d that the plan for the oriqinal park and recreational sy�tem for Ros�ville, don� in 1960, incluc�ed the outdoor athletic f�cilities and open space of the school sites as part of the overall public system. Thus, the disposal �g any school s�.te brings up an important question of adequacy of the n@iqhborhood recreatiQnal f�cilities. One of the ways of accommodating this �oncern is to set up a specia� use for limited, non--singl� family use of thE structure wherein fifty percent of th.e land is rEtai.ned for public use, though the density may be applied to the building si�e area, It may be important for the City to begin ta look at such o�tionai use regulations similar to the manner in which the City set up "public scho�l prop�rty use" under which the Fairview and Lak� Owasso �chool sites are now operating.