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• Natural light wells allowing flow of light into classrooms and over entrances to third floor • Science department will be on the third floor for ventilation reasons • Administration offices will have view of incoming and outgoing students and patrons • Gym and auditorium will have its own lobby space • Large parking lot for students, sport events and auditorium events • Sports concessions will be near the kitchen • Administration and media center will be on one floor • Simple circulation and flow of hallways • Student lockers on 2nd and 3rd floor corridors that are not heavily traveled • Main flow stairs for access and egress • Utilitarian stairs throughout the building to ease traffic flow • Elevators for handicap use and in auditorium to balcony level • Student drivers should not interfere with bus traffic • Sport complex orientation due to solar • Utilities in connection to future middle school • Site to eliminate school traffic through neighborhoods Questions and concerns were: • Neighborhood concerns o Buffering of existing noise and lights from activities o Disperse student loads in two exits o No school traffic through neighborhoods o Excess property space? ■ County does not want dead end streets in neighborhoods nearby ■ Infrastructure in place will be good selling point • Main gym entry access need to be near the parking lot for that venue • Home team west side, gym entry/parking on west • Flow of bus drop off, student drivers, and patron visitors still need to be considered • Visitors should enter admin first before entering school • Shorten entrance corridor • Arts on the south side? o Music on north side of building for easy access to stadium/fields for practice and performance Floor plan specifics: • Grade level locker space, i.e., 9th grade hall, etc. • Sound barrier in weight room and band rooms • General classrooms on second floor • Storage rooms for Science area • 10 foot hallways without lockers • 12 foot hallways with lockers only on one side of hallway • Limited access into building • Control point with locking doors more for after-hours functions • Commons near administration area • Security of doors during school day vs. events • Lock access points during specific hours of school operation • Evacuation of building will be accordingly with national fire codes regulations Back to the drawing board: • Flow of bus drop off for high school students and future middle school students • Determine stair flow max at one given time • Reconfigure parking access to gymnasium/sporting events