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f <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 5, 2003 <br />Action Agen <br />Item No. -~ <br />SUBJECT:. Friends of Bolin Creek Presentation <br />DEPARTMENT: Environment and Resource PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Conservation <br />ATTACHMENT <br />1) Presentation Summary <br />2) Map of Bolin Creek (under separate cover) <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />David Stancil, 245-2590 <br />Rich Shaw, 245-2591 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />PURPOSE: To receive a brief presentation from the "Friends of Bolin Creek," anewly- <br />formed conservation group interested in preservation of the Bolin Creek corridor. <br />BACKGROUND: In April 2002, a group of citizens interested in preservation of the Bolin <br />Creek corridor came together for an initial meeting. The group, constituted in July 2002 as <br />the "Friends of Bolin Creek," .have since met on several occasions to discuss strategies to <br />preserve the creek corridor, which stretches from Eubanks Road and areas northwest of <br />Carrboro through Chapel Hill before merging with Booker Creek near the Durham County line <br />(as it enters the New Hope/Jordan Lake system). <br />In recent months, the "Friends of Bolin Creek" have made presentations to the Carrboro <br />Board of Aldermen and Chapel Hill Town Council regarding a proposal to create a Bolin <br />Creek Corridor Open Space Master Plan, using the model created in the late-1980's for <br />the New Hope Creek Corridor Master Plan. <br />Representatives from the Friends have requested an opportunity to present the Master Plan <br />concept to the Board, and a summary of their presentation is attached along with a map <br />(produced using data from the County's Comprehensive Resource database) of the corridor. <br />Specific County interests in the Bolin Creek corridor include much of the headwaters portion <br />of the basin which is in the Joint Planning Area, the 193-acre Chapel Hill Township Park and <br />Educational Campus site, and the joint efforts to purchase and preserve the Adams Tract in <br />