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1 ORANGE COUNTYBOARD OF COMMISSIONERS CARRBORO BOARD OF ALDERMEN JOINT MEETING AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date:October 11, 2012 Action Agenda Item No.1 SUBJECT: Access Road –Twin Creeks Park / Ballentine Subdivision (MI Homes) DEPARTMENT:PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N)No Environment, Agriculture, Parks and Recreation; Planning and Inspections ATTACHMENT(S):INFORMATION CONTACTS: Adopted Master Plan –Twin Creeks Park David Stancil, 245-2510 (With Final Greenway Location)Craig Benedict, 245-2575 Letters from Corps of Engineers(Three)Marabeth Carr, 245-2510 PURPOSE: To review the proposed access road (also known as “Road A” of Ballentine subdivision) that would serve the Twin Creeks (Moniese Nomp) District Park and Ballentine subdivision. n 2001, Orange County purchased 193 acres from two families for the future BACKGROUND: I Twin Creeks District Park and Educational Campus. This park and campus was acquired to meet the previously-identified need for a Chapel Hill Township District Park and offer the opportunity to co-locate a park with a school campus. A master plan for the parkand educational campus, adopted in 2003 (revised and re-adopted in 2005) proposed using an existing shared driveway along a boundary with then undeveloped land to the south as the entranceway into the park. In the last decade, MI Homes purchased the property south of the County’s Twin Creeks site, gained subdivision approval, and in 2010-11developed a portion of the Ballentine subdivision. The concept of the shared road continued to be envisioned as part of this process, although initial phase(s) of this development did not require the completion of the shared road, identified as “Road A” on Ballentine plans. However, the original conditional use permit (CUP) adopted for the Ballentine property did envision a shared entrance road for both Ballentine and Twin Creeks. “Road A” as designed to date straddles the County/Ballentine property line. Over the past several years, County and MI Homes staffs and attorneys have discussed working together onthe road construction, at the appropriate time. However, the economic downturn of the last decade served to delay the construction of Twin Creeks Park, and portions of Ballentine that would use the shared Road A.Over the past several months, MI Homes has been in informal dialogue with Town staff regarding the submittal of a CUP Modification and a possible Town Land Use Ordinance textamendment to allow an alternative to parallel sidewalks on both sides of Road Ahas also been raised. In the meantime, aredefined Phase I of the park, the Jones Creek Greenway through the County’s property, was constructed in 2010 and opened in 2011.