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~-n~o~tY1a`~'ican ~~~ ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING & INSPECTIONS DEPARTMENT Craig N. Benedict, AICP, Director ~opntY o! 0r Current Planning ~~` ,~ ~ °s 306E Revere Road (919) 245-2575 ~7 ~ 5z P O Box 8181 ,~ (919) 644-3002 (FAx) ~~ Hillsborough, www.co.orange.nc.us ~°r~4 ~aY~~~"° North Carolina, 27278 • ~ ;= ~'___ _~ ~ _ ~ _ ~_ ,, 's.. ~ _r' ~~ o~,~ ~'Tf ~ ~ ~ -~-,- MEMORANDUM Date: December 3, 2007 To: Laura E. Blackmon, County Manager Board of County Commissioners Craig Benedict, Planning Director From: Robert P. Davis, Current Planning Supervisor ,~ Re: BOCC 2007 Goal -Land Conservation Report (Land Development) The attached report and associated attachments are an update the Board's 2007 Land Conservation Goal Report as it relates to the Land Development Approval Process, i.e. subdivision administration. The adopted BOCC goal on Land Conservation in April 2007 reads as follows: "To protect and conserve the County's important natural and cultural land resources" The three primary categories within which land conservation efforts occur in Orange County government are: 1. Lands Legacy Program 2. Land Development Approval Process 3. Locally Administered Federal and State Conservation Programs This report focuses on Item number 2, the Land Development Approval Process. Within the context of the report are specifics pertaining to the amount of public and private open space conservation that has been achieved in recent years through the regulated subdivision process as well as the dollar amounts of recreation payment in lieu received on major subdivision recorded plat activity from May 2000 to the' date of this report. The Payment in Lieu Fee Report, included as an attachment, is a cumulative total derived from all regulated subdivision activities in the period of January 2002 through November 27, 2007.