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• <br /> Page <br /> a need. It does not define a <br /> myriad of serious problem. It does not address the <br /> myriads to an questions and problems that should be clearly <br /> fails to addressvthe most mfundamentaldevelop such a <br /> Proposal. Ia t <br /> concept. The information issues inherent in such a <br /> effectiveness, and cost benefit Pesented as cost analysis, cost <br /> indefensible. In short, is either totally lacking or <br /> even - if It -was only an academicoexerciseconsieewou unsatisfactory <br /> it- a.. grade of - !�F��_ One would have to give <br /> Clearly it is not an academic exercise. It <br /> is a blatant= :attempt to gain control of all of Orange County_ <br /> The most revealing section of the Master Plan is Chapter 6 which <br /> includes; -the fold-out- maps of each township. When <br /> together they tell the entire stor pieced <br /> can, see -at a Y for rural Orange County. One <br /> glance that the Greenwav plan includes practically <br /> every small . stream. in rural - Orange County. The <br /> acquire a strip of land along each stream extending 50 dfeetwfrom <br /> the bands on each side 1 total. of 100 feet plus the width of <br /> the stream) . Recreation trails would be developed along each <br /> strip of land. - The strip of land would be <br /> right of .way. . Rural Oran a declared a public <br /> g <br /> (i .e. , a Chapel Hill Park) . Caunty would become an Urban Park <br /> The plan does not address the total miles of recreation <br /> depicted an the township maps. Based on a cursory ermine <br /> e <br /> would conclude that the total miles of Y equal anc to glance, or <br /> greater than the total miles of roads in the county. This <br /> suggests that those who developed the plan consider the needs in <br /> each case to be of equal priority. <br /> One can g et a _ <br /> Onrectai ver using estimate of the total miles of <br /> 9 the scale an the map, fixing the <br /> spread the of two fingers and walking the trails as shown on the <br /> map. A method equal to or more <br /> analytical methods used in developing thetMasterhPlan. Thisiwas <br /> done and an estimated total of 400 <br /> to <br /> obtained. Assuming that the strip is s only mies of trail was <br /> 100 ignoring the width of the stream, i translates ces wi nt. <br /> approximately 5000 to 6000 acres of land, choice land in rural <br /> Orange County. By virtue of <br /> load, as the distribution of the strips of <br /> shown on the maps, complete control of all rural <br /> townships in Orange County would be acquired. <br /> This is indeed a large domain over which the Recreation and Parks <br /> Department proposes to rule. Not only the land but all of <br /> loyal sub iects living within. � ' the <br /> courteous and cooperative. They subjects should be nice, <br /> benevolent wa ey will be admonished, albeit in a <br /> y, to work hard. Pay taxes on time, and <br /> be prepared to respond quickly when the Master Plan calls for new <br /> people' s land. The Master Plan provides orderly uses in flow <br /> to use ones leisure time to enio guidance ir, how <br /> trails.o The rural. y the serenity and bear tty of the <br /> population will not have much opportunity to <br />