Agenda - 04-29-2008 Meeting Cancelled

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2 Tract 1 Orange County — 60 acres that "the County should consider protecting" by conservation easement; Tract 2: Joint Affordable Housing —18.1 acres; Tract 3: Joint Open Space — 85.9 acres. The BOCC adopted the ILA on September 29,1999; the ILA Amendment on March 14, 2000; but there are no records to indicate that the Green Tract Work Group Resolution was ever formally adopted by the BOCC. Subcommittee of Elected Officials and Management Discussion and development of the Greene Tract has come up regularly at the Assembly of Governments (AOG). In spring 2007, however, the AOG agreed to use a subcommittee of the Chair, Mayors, and Managers to examine more vigorously issues prerequisite and surrounding the development and preservation of the Greene Tract. This was deemed especially important since the Town of Chapel Hill was about to initiate its Small Area Plan of the Rogers Road community whose boundaries embrace the Greene Tract. Two meetings were convened by County and Town elected and management * officials — October 3, 2007 and February 14, 2008 — to re-examine development feasibility options and reimbursement to the Solid Waste Enterprise Fund. County, Town, and OWASA staff were tasked with drafting various options and opportunities for locating the affordable housing on site and providing road entry and sewer services as background to the work of the elected officials and managers between meetings. At the February meeting, County staff presented the results of joint staff discussions on land use and ownership, environmental/natural features/preservation parameters, utilities — existing and proposed, transportation and access, and affordable housing tract development alternatives. Discussion arose on a proposed school site for the Chapel Hill Carrboro City School District and its impact on acreage reserved for conservation and/or affordable housing. County staff was asked to draft a set of guiding principles and parameters for enacting conservation easements in anticipation of greater discussion on or before the AOG. meeting on March 31, and what limitations might prevail for affordable housing. After County staff review of the guiding principles and parameters for conservation purposes, the County Attorney prepared a memorandum to the BOCC stating that nothing in the language of the ILA contemplated or provided for the Greene Tract portion under County ownership to be used for other than solid waste system purposes. There was insufficient time for consideration of the Greene Tract item and its component parts at the AOG meeting on March 31, therefore it was agreed to o schedule the topic for a previously scheduled joint meeting set on April 29. The BOCC, in preparation during a work session on April 8, reviewed the updated in i formation postponed from the AOG meeting, and began a preliminary discussion of the development and conservation issues previously identified by the joint staffs. County staff was then asked to research and provide additional information for the joint meeting on April 29. Those issues are addressed in Attachments 5-10. County staff will provide a presentation on the development and conservation issues and respond to any questions at the meeting on April 29.