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5/26/99 <br />• Joint acquisition with the municipalities <br />• Some have own sales taxes <br />• Work also with the Trust with Public Lands, Nature <br />Conservancy <br />• Open Space Task Force made up of a people, <br />stakeholders, <br />• Decide where want to spend money preserving lands <br />Focus of Acquisition: <br />• Other categories to purchase <br />• Prime. agricultural land, which has good soil and <br />irrigation <br />• Rights to draw water off of, which makes the land more <br />valuable <br />3. Guilford County, NC (Roger Bardsley (33~ 574-3544) <br />Note: All of the governments within Guilford County use some <br />version of the county's policy (Flood Plain Dedication only), <br />although some drift has occurred since 1992 when it was <br />created. <br />Methods of Acquiring Land: <br />• Require dedication of field plain open space if the land <br />falls within the 100-year flood plain <br />• Open space for watershed policy <br />• .Over past 15 years got 1000 acres <br />• Bonds -about 2000 acres through bonds <br />• Have a greenway plan <br />• Offer of dedication if Parks and Recreation Department <br />wants <br />• Some dedicated to the North Carolina Conservancy by <br />the developer, then deeded over to the county <br />• No requirement for dedication if clustering (RS-20). <br />Could zone at a lower level (RS-12) though and <br />dedicate about N15% as open space <br />Focus of Acquisition: <br />• Dedication has to be connected to public interest <br />• 100 Year Flood Plain easy to see that in - no <br />development possibility for developers <br />