LAND USE/ARCHITECTURAL SUBCOMMITTEE REPORT

CSC Meeting @ Boston Weekend, 11/10/96

Present:

Michael Beattie (note-taker for session)
Neil Cowan

Present and attending other subcommittee discussions:

Bill McAvinney
David Kahn

This subcommittee is charged with describing "what we need in a site" and identifying options for improving a site. Before a site is found, only the former can be specified.

We examined our potential camp site and identified three levels of wonderfullness:

1. the most wonderful is the "ideal camp"
2. what we are used to at Omni camp is "camp as we know it"
3. what we can't do without, and still have camp is the "essential camp"

ESSENTIAL CAMP:

Capacity is 250 people. We run camp for three or four weeks . Conforms to local and state ordinances (zoning, etc.) Waterfront on 20 acre or bigger swimmable lake. Not necessarily private. Kitchen, dining hall, water supply, washing facilities, toilets and septic system for 250.

Other structures:

Large lodge for 100 dancers: about 1800 sq. ft. (24' x 76')
3 smaller dance spaces ranging from 30 x 30 to 167 x 24. These could be rentable off-campus spaces.
Wellness center cabin (or trailer)
3 childcare cabins with water and toilet available.
We can use tents for the rest of our space.

Quality of buildings may be slightly more run down than Omni camp, but not much.
Adequate electrical power to each building.
Land area of 25 acres. Well-drained soils that will allow septic system expansion.

Essential Camp has the core buildings we need and enough land to construct additional structures over time. It doesn't have extra land-just enough for camping, parking, the core buildings, and expansion.

CAMP AS WE KNOW IT:

All of the above, but has a capacity 400 people. Waterfront on 30 acre or larger lake. Still not private, but nudity is ok with other users.

Other structures:

2 more dance spaces on campus
2 more childcare cabins. One with kitchen
Pavillion (roof with no walls)
Sleeping cabins for 200 people. Cabins have toilets, showers, and sinks
Office
Basketball court, large field, fire circle.
Larger land area with a buffer of woods all around the center of camp.

Camp As We Know It roughly duplicates the facilities and quality at Omni Camp. We still would build additional structures as needed.

IDEAL CAMP:

All of the above. Capacity still 400; If camp population expands, we run camp for a longer period or increase capacity.

Plus the following:

Private lake. With boats and boathouse.

Structures:

Cabins for 400 with heat. Smaller number of beds in each. May be multi-room dormitories.
Sauna and hot tub.
Larger dance spaces than at Omni Camp.

Quality of buildings, floors, kitchen is better than Omni Camp
100 acre site with natural bowl/ampitheater, trails, ropes course.

Ideal Camp has plenty of space for whatever we might want to do in the future, but right now we need to build nothing.

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