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Z7'1' 1///— Z I--9 C) e--) <br /> A Resolution Establishing a Prioritized Resource Lands Acquisition <br /> Program Entitled "A Lands Legacy Program for Orange County" <br /> WHEREAS, in June of 1998, the Orange County Board of Commissioners did agree to <br /> the intent of creating a "Comprehensive Resource Acquisition Program"to prioritize and <br /> acquire natural and cultural resource lands of strategic significance in Orange County; <br /> and <br /> WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners held a public hearing on a new Environment <br /> and Resource Conservation Department, including this land acquisition program concept, <br /> on November 22, 1998; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners has recognized the need for a <br /> prioritized and voluntary program for the County to acquire, by various methods, <br /> important natural and cultural resource lands; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Board is cognizant of the many other similar efforts undertaken in <br /> 1998-99 by local governments around the nation, and of proposals by other local <br /> governments within North Carolina and the Research Triangle region to establish open <br /> space preservation programs: <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: <br /> That the Orange County Board of Commissioners do adopt a land acquisition program <br /> entitled**'A Lands Legacy Program for Orange County"(hereinafter the"Lands Legacy <br /> program'), as developed by County Environment and Resource Conservation <br /> Department staff and County preservation-related advisory boards in 1999, and refined <br /> by direction of the Board of County Commissioners in October, 1999 and April, 2000. <br /> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Lands Legacy program will be the County's <br /> mechanism of preserving important natural resource lands, cultural resources, farmland, <br /> parklands and watershed riparian buffers, and is hereby incorporated into Orange <br /> County's policies as the County program for land acquisitions, as designated in the <br /> program presented April 4, 2000, as amended by the Board. <br /> r <br /> A s , x <br /> This., the 4th day of April, 2000 e4 1P- <br /> '7 <br /> Moses Carey, Jr. <br /> Chair, Orange County r arod of Commissioners <br /> ATTEST. <br /> 6everly BlyyVe <br /> Clerk to the Board of Commissioners <br />