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5/3/2011
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8a
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Minutes 05-03-2011
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\Board of County Commissioners\Minutes - Approved\2010's\2011
ORD-2011-016 Conservation Easement for Sykes Dairy Farm and Budget Amendment #9
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\Board of County Commissioners\Ordinances\Ordinance 2010-2019\2011
RES-2011-047 Resolution approving Agricultural Conservation Easement between Orange County and Sykes Family Limited Partnership
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\Board of County Commissioners\Resolutions\2010-2019\2011
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oRD-doll- oll~ <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD DF COUNTY CDMMISSIaNERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: May 3, 2011 <br />Action Agenda <br />Ifiem No. ~~, <br />SUBJECT: Resolution of Approval -Conservation Easement forthe Sykes Dairy Farm; <br />and A royal of Bud et Amendment#9-A <br />DEPARTMENT: Environment, Agriculture, Parks PUBLIC HEARING: ~YIN~ No <br />and Recreation ~DEAPR} <br />ATTACHMENTS INF~RMATIDN CONTACT: <br />Resolution of Approval David Stancil, 245-2510 <br />Location Map Rich Shaw, 245-2514 <br />Site Map Brent Bogue, 245-2751 <br />Draft Conservation Easement <br />PURPOSE: To consider a resolution to approve the purchase of and acceptance by Orange <br />County of an agricultural conservation easement for the Sykes family dairy; and approve <br />Budget Amendment #9-A. <br />BACKGROUND: The acquisition of agricultural conservation easements to protect prime <br />farmland in Orange County is a longstanding goal of the Board of Commissioners, and is a <br />priority of the Lands Legacy Program. Since completing the, County's first agricultural <br />conservation easement in 2001, Orange County has protected 1,563 acres of prime farmland <br />and riparian buffers with conservation easements, <br />In April 2449, Orange County, in cooperation with the Orange NRCSISoiI and Water <br />Conservation District Office, applied for matching grant funds from the federal Farm and <br />Ranch Land Protection Program ~FRPP}. A portion of those grant funds will be used to <br />purchase a conservation easement to protect approximately 160 acres of the Sykes farm. <br />The Sykes farm is located north of Bradshaw Quarry Road in southwestern Orange County <br />Bingham Township}. It is one of just eight dairies in the county. The farm is operated by <br />Jeff Sykes, who along with his late brother John, took over the dairy from their father, Vernon <br />Sykes. Today the family owns the farm as the Sykes Family Limited Partnership. <br />The farm is located in the Cane Creek Protected Watershed, which the County identified as <br />a priority watershed for acquiring agricultural easements in a dual effort to protect prime <br />farmland and drinking water quality. Turkey Hill Creek flows through the farm and drains to <br />Cane Greek Reservoir - a principal source of drinking water for Carrboro and Chapel Hill. <br />The Sykes family intends to grant a conservation easement on 164 acres of their 300-acre <br />farm, including the main dairy operation accessed from Oak Grove Church Road}, cropland, <br />and extensive pastures. About 94°/° of the 160 acres is in active agricultural production. The <br />proposed conservation easement area is depicted on the attached site map. <br />
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