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1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 2, 2015 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 7 -a <br />SUBJECT: Interlocal Agreement for the Hollow Rock Nature Park <br />DEPARTMENT: Environment, Agriculture, PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />Parks and Recreation <br />(DEAPR) <br />ATTACHMENTS: <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Interlocal Agreement with Land <br />Ownership Map (Exhibit A), Site Plan - <br />David Stancil, 919 - 245 -2510 <br />Phase 1 a (Exhibit B), and Phasing <br />Rich Shaw, 919 - 245 -2514 <br />Plan for Construction (Exhibit C) <br />John Roberts, 919 - 245 -2318 <br />PURPOSE: To receive a revised draft interlocal agreement for the construction and operation <br />of the planned Hollow Rock Nature Park located along New Hope Creek. <br />BACKGROUND: In 1992 Orange County, Chapel Hill, Durham County and the City of Durham <br />adopted the New Hope Creek Corridor Master Plan, which called for preservation of lands along <br />the New Hope Creek corridor from central Orange County to Jordan Lake. The master plan <br />envisioned a public trail network with a number of "access areas" at strategic locations, including <br />the "Hollow Rock Access Area" at the intersection of Erwin Road and Pickett Road. <br />The planned Hollow Rock Access Area is a 75 -acre site comprised of multiple land parcels <br />owned separately by Orange County, Durham County, and the Town of Chapel Hill. The site <br />straddles the Orange- Durham county line and New Hope Creek forms the western boundary. <br />Portions of the site are protected with conservation easements held by the State of North <br />Carolina. <br />The site was acquired in a series of separate land transactions from 2001 -2014. The Triangle <br />Land Conservancy (TLC) purchased the first two acres in 2002, and then advocated for further <br />acquisitions. Orange County purchased four parcels from 2005 -07 with the help of state grants. <br />A 43 -acre tract was acquired by Durham and Orange counties and the Town of Chapel Hill in <br />2008 with funding assistance from the City of Durham, the State, and the Erwin Area <br />Neighborhood Group. Orange County acquired the two -acre TLC property in May 2014. <br />In 2006 the four local governments signed an interlocal agreement for the acquisition and <br />planning of the planned Hollow Rock Access Area, and also established a Hollow Rock Master <br />Plan Committee, co- chaired by Commissioner Barry Jacobs and including then - Commissioner <br />