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ORD-2011-016 Conservation Easement for Sykes Dairy Farm and Budget Amendment #9
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ORD-2011-016 Conservation Easement for Sykes Dairy Farm and Budget Amendment #9
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5/3/2011
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8a
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oRp-a°ll- o1Co <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: May 3, -2011 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~ ' Q, <br />SUBJECT: Resolution of Approval -Conservation Easement for the Sykes Dairy Farm; <br />and Approval of Budget Amendment #9-A <br />DEPARTMENT: Environment, Agriculture, Parks PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />and Recreation (DEAPR) <br />ATTACHMENTS INFORMATION 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 2009, Orange County, in cooperation with the Orange NRCS/Soil 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 Creek Reservoir - a principal source of drinking water for Carrboro and Chapel Hill. <br />The Sykes family intends to grant a conservation easement on 160 acres of their 300-acre <br />farm, including the main dairy operation (accessed from Oak Grove Church Road), cropland, <br />and extensive pastures. About 90% 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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