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,9- po3~0~~ U'~ ~~G.~°3 <br />/~ ~' a ~6 <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />RESOLUTION FOR THE ACCEPTING A CONSERVATION <br />EASEMENT TO PROTECT NEW HOPE CREEK CORRIDOR <br />(REBECCA BROWN PROPERTY)- <br />WHEREAS, two of the primary goals of the Orange County Lands Legacy <br />program, established by the Board of County Commissioners in April 2000, is <br />the protection of identified wildlife corridors and riparian buffers in water <br />supply watersheds, and <br />WHEREAS, Triangle Land Conservancy (TLC), a private non-profit land trust <br />with like conservation goals, is working with Orange County to acquire riparian <br />lands and conservation easements for an open space corridor along New Hope <br />Creek from Erwin Road to the Durham County line, and <br />WHEREAS, protecting these riparian lands will preserve an identified wildlife <br />corridor and provide an opportunity for developing a public trail linking <br />sections of New Hope Creek in Duke Forest (Korstian Division) with public <br />lands in Durham County, and <br />WHEREAS, completing said trail corridor will help implement the New Hope <br />Creek Corridor Master Plan, adopted by Orange County, Durham County, the <br />City of Durham and the Town of Chapel Hill in 1989, and <br />WHEREAS, TLC has agreed with Rebecca Brown on the purchase of a <br />conservation easement to protect approximately 1.2 acres of a property that Ms. <br />Brown owns adjacent to New Hope Creek at Erwin Road, and <br />WHEREAS, TLC and the County have agreed that TLC will convey the <br />conservation easement to Orange County, and <br />WHEREAS, Orange County and TLC and Rebecca Brown have generally <br />agreed on the language of said conservation easement to be purchased by TLC <br />and conveyed to the County, and <br />WHEREAS, the joint acquisition of this property is exemplary of the County's <br />ongoing collaboration and .partnership with Triangle Land Conservancy and <br />other conservation organizations; <br />