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ORANGE COUNTY MASTER RECREATION AND PARKS PLAN 16 The following text is recommended to be substituted for all text appearing in . the draft Master Recreation and Parks Plan, Chapter 6, County-Wide Proposals and Recommendations, Greenways section (pages 6-7 through 6-9) . -Greenways A final county-wide recommendation is for the county to develop a greenway system, composed of two types of areas: recreational trails and natural conservation lands. The system is to be based upon guidelines provided to the county, by the Triangle Land Conservancy and greenways plans included in the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan adopted October 1986. The descriptions of greenway types listed below should be used in delineating each segment's use as the plan is implemented. It is also proposed that the county coordinate its greenway plans with the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro on a local level, and the Triangle J Planning Area on a regional level, to assure proper connections with other systems in the area. Orange County is also within the path of the "Mountain to the Sea" trail being developed through the State of North Carolina. It would be beneficial to connect with this trail system where possible to become a member of a unique and historic recreational activity. The final recommendation on the development of a greenway system is that it be planned compatibly with other systems as recommended by the President's Commission on American Outdoors (PCAO) which emphasizes the creation of a "National Greenway Network." Areas designated on the individual township maps show the two types of areas ) recommended: (1) recreational trails (graphically depicted by a dot pattern and labeled RT) which are accessible to the public and managed by the County, and are developed with walkways or trails and (2) natural conservation areas (graphically depicted by an asterisk pattern and labeled NCA) which are lands managed by the landowner and designated for protection from destructive development and are not accessible to the community. Recreational Trails Recreational trails in more urbanized areas or accessible to relatively large numbers of people, or which connect two or more identified significant areas should take the form of corridors of land with a paved or prepared walkway (these trails can provide walking connections and opportunities for bicyclists and joggers) or with well-marked and maintained unpaved trails. These corridors should be a minimum of sixty feet (60' ) wide, providing the user with the impression of being away from urban development. The recreation trails will require operational management such as litter and security patrol with appropriate vehicular restrictions endorsed. - For recreational trails for which county ownership may not be necessary or appropriate, conservation easements and mutual covenants between the landowner and the county or another land management group like the Triangle Land Conservancy, may be useful. Natural Conservation Lands Natural conservation areas in more rural areas, or which connect identified significant areas should take the form of undeveloped wide strips of land, not