PHOTO GALLERY: Committee tours three possible Columbia school sites

Dana Clippard, left, Columbia Public Schools assistant superintendent for human resources, and school board member Jan Mees look at a diagram of a proposed site for a new elementary school in southwest Columbia during a site tour Saturday. About 20 people, including members of the Columbia Public Schools Long-range Facilities Planning Committee, school principals and parents, toured three potential locations for the school, slated to open in 2016.   |  Greg Kendall-Ball

Peter Stiepelman, Columbia Public Schools assistant superintendent of elementary education, steps off the bus Saturday to inspect a potential school location, a 34-acre site off Scott Boulevard and Route KK in southwest Columbia.   |  Greg Kendall-Ball

Dave Bennett, left, a consulting engineer with Columbia Public Schools, and John John, a Columbia real estate broker, inspect a 34-acre site Saturday. The site in southwest Columbia is one of three being considered as the possible location of a 600-student elementary school slated to open in 2016. Bennett, John and members of the Columbia Public Schools Long-range Facilities Planning Committee took a bus tour of three sites in southwest Columbia on Saturday.
  |  Greg Kendall-Ball

Members of the Columbia Public Schools' Long-range Facilities Planning Committee on Saturday view a 30-acre site on High Point Lane, just off Route K in southwest Columbia. The site is one of three under consideration as the location of a new 600-student elementary school to be opened in 2016.
  |  Greg Kendall-Ball