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Greg Mance to Hurley confirmed!

Cost, zoning, regulation, funding, etc. etc. etc.......... The cost per square foot for commercial construction in 1950 was less the one-half-of-one-percent of the average household income. Today, it's closer to 6%! Current Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Codes for new school construction stipulates two distinctive ingresses and egresses. Basically, bus loading zones must be kept completely detached from any other forms of parking and travel through the school property, including travel and parking for athletic fields. School access roads aren't allowed to encircle the school. All roadways and parking areas must have "unobstructed views" from the main school building. The property is also required to meet minimum usable acreage guidelines. This requires a minimum of 10 acres with and additional acre required per 100 students in average daily attendance. So, if a school has an average daily attendance of 1,000 students, the property would be required to be no fewer than 20 acres. However, the key phrase in this requirement is "usable acreage". Stormwater collection areas, athletic fields and any other "waste" areas aren't considered "usable areas".