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RES-2003-063 Resolution Accepting Conservation Easement Conveyance - Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hil
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RES-2003-063 Resolution Accepting Conservation Easement Conveyance - Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hil
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9/16/2003
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~~ <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />RESOLUTION FOR THE ACCEPTING A CONSERVATION <br />EASEMENT TO PROTECT NEW HOPE CREEK CORRIDOR <br />(TRINITY SCHOOL 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 the Trinity School of Durham and Chapel <br />Hill on the purchase of a conservation easement to protect approximately 14.86 <br />acres of a property that Trinity School owns adjacent to New Hope Creek, 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 the Trinity School 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 />
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