Minutes - 20081014 - Work Session

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transportation planning agencies and service providers in Orange County and the Triangle region. The resulting intermodal transportation system should reflect regional goals and objectives to meet projected travel demand and to reduce congestion and reliance on single occupancy vehicles. Objective T-4.2: (Ongoing) Plan and integrate the County's multi-modal transportation routes and services with regional transportation agencies and transit service providers, agencies and transit providers in neighboring counties, the North Carolina Department of Transportation, Amtrak, and the North Carolina Railroad. Objective T-4.3: (Long Term) Revive rail transportation in Orange County and the Triangle region. General Note to Reader: This proposed revision does not include the references to other plan elements, nor does it evaluate the proposed timelines. Chair Jacobs made reference to page 9-5 and the listing of the countywide road network, which does not mention 15/501. He made reference to page 9-9, line 5; 9-13, line 32; and 9-14, line 19 and said that all of the discussions about the bicycle plan are inconsistent. The Board discussed this recently that the OUT Board is recommending bicycle priorities that are totally inconsistent with the adopted bicycle plan, which is a commuter work bicycle plan, and most of the biking mentioned by the OUT Board is recreational. He said that the Board voted to revisit this. This is also referred to on page 9-20, line 46. Chair Jacobs thanked the Planning Board members present and asked them to thank their colleagues for all of their work. Chair Jacobs asked Tom Altieri to make a separate table for what was discussed tonight instead of including it in the existing table. The Board will vote on this at the next meeting that it comes to the Board in November. 2. Lands Legacy Action Plan for FY 2008-10 Environment and Resource Conservation Director Dave Stancil said that this is something that is done every two years in the fall — bring back a draft action plan for the next two fiscal years. The purpose is to hear from the County Commissioners about the priorities that have been identified by the staff and advisory boards. He noted that staff is very conscious of what has been going on in the global economy in the last few months. The plan is to fund the document with the existing resources. He said that the purpose of the action plan is to make the priorities operational during the two-year period and the five different categories that Lands Legacy operates—farmland, natural areas, wildlife habitat and prime forests, watershed riparian buffers, future parks and open space, and cultural resources lands. There has been a lot of work to have a large amount of information to pull from. At the earlier part of the decade, there was an effort to create a "green print." He showed a map with important areas in the County and surrounding areas. The document is consistent with the long-term plans that have been created over the years. Rich Shaw reviewed the contents of the document. He specifically went over the Priority List for July 2008-2010, which includes Bingham Township Park, farmland easements, Jordan Lake Macrosite, Seven Mile Creek Preserve, Upper Eno Riparian Buffers, Hall's Mill Historic Area, Crawford Mountain, Bolin Creek Corridor, Mountains to Sea Trail, Meadow Flats Natural Area, and Currie Hill Natural Area. He made reference to Appendix 2, which is the Potential Expansion of the Nature Preserves Concept. The idea is to protect strategic areas between