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ORANGE COUNTY 0025 <br /> BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: February 25, 2002 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. <br /> SUBJECT: Triangle GreenPrint Regional Open Space Assessment <br /> DEPARTMENT: Environment and Resource PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) Yes <br /> Conservation <br /> ATTACHMENT INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Triangle GreenPrint Report (Feb. 2002) David Stancil, 245-2590 <br /> (separate enclosure) Rich Shaw, 245-2591 <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> Mebane 336-227-2031 <br /> PURPOSE: To receive a presentation of the Triangle GreenPrint report. <br /> BACKGROUND: An effort is underway to develop a regional open space plan for the six- <br /> county Triangle region. A coalition of three organizations —the Triangle J Council of <br /> Governments, the Triangle Land Conservancy, and the NC Division of Parks and <br /> Recreation— is working with local partners to develop a "Triangle GreenPrint" covering <br /> Orange, Durham, Chatham, Wake, Lee and Johnston counties. <br /> Phase I of the project began with a series of workshops, or "charrettes," held in November <br /> 2000. Representatives from the six counties, several municipalities, state and federal <br /> agencies, conservation groups and other entities participated in the mapping of important <br /> natural areas, farmland, forestland, historic areas, and existing/proposed parks and <br /> greenways within the region. Orange County participants included staff from ERCD, Soil and <br /> Water Conservation and the NC Forest Service. <br /> Phase 11 of the project—the public outreach and input phase of the project— begins with a <br /> presentation of the proposed GreenPrint to county and municipal advisory boards and <br /> elected boards for their information, input and eventual "buy in." The GreenPrint sponsors <br /> hope that local governments will endorse the GreenPrint and use the plan as a guide to <br /> developing their own local open space plans. <br /> For Orange County, which already has an adopted "open space plan" in Lands Legacy, the <br /> GreenPrint will help to show that our county plan is part of a larger regional plan for <br />