the magnolia breeze concepts are in areas that flood often...not sure what that would mean for these locations. Town keeps claiming that the water buffer surrounding creek on both sides prevents them from doing ANYTHING around creek or greenway. Unsure if they would use that excuse for any bridge. I hope the bridge thing works...will help if you need bodies or signatures etc. Lisa Laws- Cypress View Way

The light green path is probably impossible owing to homeowner opposition and a lack of space. As you mentioned, Lisa, the creek is prone to swelling to the south, so a boardwalk-type solution may be necessary for many of the paths. There's no rhyme or reason to the way I drew the connections to the greenway. The light green path crosses at an existing clearing, so any of the other colored paths might instead cut over to meet it.

Here is a blend of the 2010 aerial photography from iMaps with the Book of Maps 1999 page 1598 showing the 20 foot easement off of Hawkscrest Ct. It goes between 112 and 113, and it looks like 113's driveway and corner of the house are actually on the easement. I imagine there was some sort of variance.

I have been in contact with Apex transportation planner Reed Huegerich who is supportive of the idea.

Mr. Huegerich advised that there may be substantial grading required for the Hawkscrest Ct. connection. For the blue Hawkscrest Ct. connection, we need to conduct a survey to see if it is feasible, so we need HOA permission to survey there, and upon a finding of feasibility, HOA permission for the greenway easement.

The other connections (besides the blue and light green ones), go between houses on *other* types of easements besides greenway easements. They offer the additional clearance that would be required for a greenway, but they also introduce foot and bicycle traffic to the area, so there is some impact to the homeowners.
We need to meet with the homeowners and arrange for the greenway easement, plus get HOA (and possibly Turnpike Authority) permission for those pathways.

Mr. Huegerich proposes that we (HOA and others interested) come up with a plan and perhaps even implement the plan to bring the greenway to the stream, then ask the town to connect it. The first step in anything along those lines is some back-of-the-envelope calculations to understand how much it will cost to go one way or another - and especially to see how much it will cost to use the existing easement. I will seek out numbers for rough calculations - ADA slope guidelines, cost per linear foot of greenway, boardwalk, and grading (per cubic foot, I suppose), plus guidelines for elevation above the proximate water so that the path doesn't get inundated with ordinary rain.

I look forward to calculations. We should plan the greenway connection wanted by the community, but we should not build anything without Town approval.

I got many cost estimates and other parameters from Mr. Huegerich, but I lack parameters for where to build a boardwalk vs. a concrete or asphalt greenway. I'll keep investigating.

I looked at the Hawkscrest Ct. easement with a neighbor who is also a greenway planner. He suggested we'd need asphalt down to the fence line and boardwalk from there. Plugging in those cost estimates brings us to about $86k, mostly boardwalk.

I wonder if we might get funding for this spur in a package with with the funding to connect the Beaver Creek Greenway with the Nature Park on Apex BBQ.

We're also discussing another alternative - possibly to clear trees and/or improve creek flow about the same time.