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APPROVED 12/15/2009 MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS WORK SERSSION November 19, 2009 7:00p.m. The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for a work session on Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, NC. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Valerie P. Foushee, and Commissioners Alice Gordon, Pam Hemminger, Barry Jacobs, Mike Nelson, Bernadette Pelissier, and Steve Yuhasz COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Frank Clifton and Clerk to the Board Donna S. Baker (All other staff members will be identified appropriately below) 1. Proposed Master Plan — Hollow Rock Access Area at New Hope Preserve Environment and Resource Conservation Director Dave Stancil made this presentation. Dave Stancil reviewed background information on this project for the Board. He said that this 75-acre site is located south of Erwin Road near the intersection with Pickett Road. The property straddles the Orange-Durham county line, and is comprised of multiple land parcels owned separately by Orange County, Durham County, the Town of Chapel Hill and the Triangle Land Conservancy. New Hope Creek forms the western boundary of the property. He said these properties were acquired as part of an overall effort to protect land along New Hope Creek between Duke Forest and US 15/501 as a linear nature preserve, with a planned trail. Durham County refers to its landholdings as the "New Hope Creek Preserve," and Orange County has also used the working title of "New Hope Preserve" to describe its landholdings along New Hope Creek (which includes the Hollow Rock Access Area). He said the purpose of the multi-jurisdictional Hollow Rock Access Area project was to conserve significant natural and cultural resource lands along New Hope Creek and to make portions of the site available for low-impact recreational uses (in this case, the Hollow Rock site). In September 2006, Orange County joined in an interlocal agreement with the City of Durham, Durham County and the Town of Chapel Hill for acquisition and master planning of the property known as the "Hollow Rock Access Area" section of the New Hope Creek corridor. Over an 18-month period, a Master Plan Advisory Committee (known as the Hollow Rock Master Plan Committee) held workshops and open houses to develop a master plan that fulfills the four responsibilities assigned to it by the agreement: