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III.ABSTRACT OF PROPOSED PROJECT 10 Introduction.The N.C.Association of County Commissioners is the official voice of the state's 100 counties. It is a voluntary organization created to represent the interests and concerns of county government.Through policies established at statewide meetings, the Board of Directors, and committees, the counties themselves determine the direction that the Association takes in carrying out its mission to improve the ability of counties to provide services in North Carolina. This application is submitted by the Association on behalf of Currituck, Craven, and Orange counties. The Association is requesting a total of$7,500 in planning and survey funds or$2,500 for each county to assist in the preparation of the Open Space Development Design Guidebook described in this application.Currituck and Craven counties are not Certified Local Governments (CLGs). Orange County is a CLG, having been certified on April 13, 1993. Background.In the Fall of 1993,the Orange County Board of Commissioners adopted a resolution supporting the goals and objectives of the Comprehensive Conservation& Management Plan (CCMP) of the Albemarle- Pamlico Estuarine Study. APES is a component of the National Estuary Program, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency effort that supports research and management strategies to restore the health of the country's estuarine systems. In total area, the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuary is second only to the Chesapeake Bay, and encompasses five (5) major river basins in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. During the course of reviewing the CCMP, the Orange County staff was struck by the consistency between the goals and objectives of the CCMP and the adopted goals of the Orange County Board of Commissioners regarding rural character preservation, particularly the promotion of local and regional planning that protects cultural and environmental resources and allows for economic growth. Coincidental to the adoption of the resolution of support, the Orange County Planning Director was asked by Mr. Randall Arendt of the Natural Lands Trust in Media,Pennsylvania to review and comment on a draft of an open space development design guidebook prepared for the Sussex County,Delaware Conservation District. From the review of the design guidebook emerged the proposal outlined below. Project Proposal.Simply stated, the proposal suggests that the Natural Lands Trust; e.g.,Randall Arendt, be employed to prepare a design guidebook for open space development using three counties as case studies in the Albemarle-Pamlico Watershed. The proposal is unique in the sense that it seeks to link different fields of interest,natural resource and historic preservation,through a common method of preserving such resources -open space or cluster design.It is also unique in that it will involve the cooperative efforts of federal and state agencies, as well as three local governments and their statewide association in working cooperatively and collectively to produce a document which could benefit the 34 counties located in the Albemarle-Pamlico Watershed in North Carolina and have transferability to all 100 counties in the state. The design guidebook