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Attachment 1 3 <br />GREENE TRACT DEVELOPMENT FEASIBILITY ABRIDGED REPORT <br />a. BACKGROUND; LAND USE AND OWNERSHIP <br />1. The disposition of the Green Tract is subject to a 1999 Interlocal <br />Agreement and the Green Tract Workgroup of 2002. <br />Tract 1 - 60-acre area owned by Orange County Solid Waste <br />Enterprise. <br />Tract 2 - 18.1-acre is identified for Affordable Housing is jointly <br />owned by Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro. <br />Tract 3 - 85.9-acre is identified for open space is jointly owned by <br />Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro. <br />b. ENVIRONMENTAUNATURAL FEATURES/PRESERVATION PARAMETERS <br />The Greene Tract is the headwaters of three sub-basin watersheds. The <br />property includes a mix of mature hardwoods and pine. Tract 1 contains <br />the most mature hardwood areas (and the more significant habitat <br />diversity), with Tract 2 yielding more of a pine/mixed forest cover. Tract 3 <br />features mixed hardwood and pine, and the remains of two former <br />residences. <br />Triangle Land Conservancy (TLC) has agreed to hold a conservation <br />easement on the jointly held open space in Tract 3, and has asked that <br />the County's adjoining 60 acres (Tract 1) also be protected. TLC has also <br />agreed to the potential additional activities that have been part of recent <br />discussions (please see Attachment 3 March 24 memo). Any future <br />recreation areas associated with Tract 2 would be removed from the <br />easement on Tract 3. These uses would be a change from the adopted <br />2002 concept plan map. <br />Issues: <br />1. Do the three jurisdictions wish to proceed with placing a <br />conservation easement on Tract 3 (as potentially modified below), <br />and adopt a revised concept plan? <br />2. Does Orange County wish to amend the Interlocal Agreement to <br />provide for and place a separate conservation easement on its 60 <br />acres (Tract 1), with lessened monitoring provisions? <br />3. Does the County agree with the proposed Guiding Principles and <br />Parameters (Attachment 4) for the conservation easement(s). <br />4. There will likely be some stewardship endowment funding <br />requested by TLC for the easement on Tract 3, not yet been <br />calculated. <br />C. UTILITY EXISTING AND PROPOSED <br />1. Water utilities are presently adjacent to the Affordable Housing <br />portion of Green Tract. <br />2. Gravity sewer is not yet available but will be available concurrent <br />with an adjacent Habitat for Humanity project (in the Chapel Hill <br />review process) to the west of the Affordable Housing tract. <br />