Background/Purpose of Request:
The current county government complex is a one hundred and thirty-seven acre parcel that provides a centralized location where citizens can conduct business and receive service from all county departments.
Due to the growth in services needed for a fast growing county, lack of additional office space, and the age and associated increasing maintenance of the existing buildings, the county decided to hire an architectural firm to study the complex and produce a site and buildings master plan. The study needed to include parking, stormwater, open space availability, ease of access, signage, vehicular and pedestrian traffic patterns, existing building conditions, employee workflow processes, warehouse and site storage, and new buildings and building renovations needed with cost estimates to better serve the public.
LS3P Associates was retained in December of 2020 to perform the overall site and building master plan study. At the beginning of the project county staff informed the design team that Buildings A (Health), B (DSS), C (Emergency Services) and I (Central Services) were the most critical needs due to age, overcrowding, need for an new Emergency Operations Center, and increasing cost of maintenance. The work began soon after the new year with existing building asbuilt drawings scanned by the LS3P team and returned to the county, an initial space needs analysis questionnaire was sent out to department heads, site visits by the design team were conducted, and a series of meetings with county management and key staff commenced. The work progressed through the spring and summer with the preliminary master plan reviewed in June, a refined master plan presented in July, and now the final master plan presentation.
Mr. Charles Boney of LS3P Associates will present the key highlights of the master plan to the Board and hard copies of the final plan will also be made available to the Board and county management. |