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Guilford County Schools has been asked to partner with Guilford County on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. The proposed route for the shared use trail will parallel the boundary of the campus of Northern Middle/High Schools. (Please refer to Attachment A for a comprehensive view of the length of this trail segment.) This trail, as shown, would be part of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail effort, which will stretch across North Carolina. Locally, it would be part of a connector trail from the Greensboro watershed lakes trails to the Haw River State Park. The watershed trails tie into the Lake Brandt Greenway and the Bicentennial Greenway to the west. Please also note an upcoming 450-acre Mountains-to-Sea trail land purchase from the Morton and Richardson families to the south of the Northern Middle/High School campus.
As shown on Attachment B, the proposed Mountains-to-Sea Trail will follow a route along the southern and western property lines of the Northern Middle/High School campus and provide access points to the Scotts Grant neighborhood to the west. The asphalt part of the trail will be available to appropriate emergency or maintenance vehicle traffic if needed, but most of the trail will be naturally surfaced. The total width of the proposed easement is 20’, and the total area within this easement as requested is approximately + 2 acres.
Also included in this packet is an illustration showing the planned extent of Mountains-to-Sea Trail through Guilford County (Attachment C: existing trails and proposed land acquisitions and easements for this project). The Board has previously approved Bicentennial Greenway easements on the Montlieu Elementary, Welborn Middle/Andrews High, Guilford Elementary and Western High School campuses.
Sam Misher, Northern Middle principal; Joe Yeager, Northern High principal; Tony Scales, program administrator for school safety; and facilities staff have reviewed the trail easement as proposed and have no concerns regarding this recommendation.
GCS legal counsel has reviewed this packet of materials, and Guilford County School’s counsel will prepare an appropriate Deed of Easement to implement any easement grant approved by the board.
RECOMMENDATION: The administration recommends that the board approve the Mountains-to-Sea Trail easement as requested by Guilford County, as described herein, affecting the Northern Middle/High School campus.
Attachment #A - Site Map
Attachment #B - Site Map
Attachment #C - Site Map
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