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002 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action A e da <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Item No. ', <br /> Meeting Date: May 2, 1988 <br /> SUBJECT: MASTER RECREATION AND PARKS PLAN <br /> DEPARTMENT: Recreation and Parks <br /> PUBLIC HEARING YES: XXX NO: <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Anne Black <br /> NONE TELEPHONE NUMBER- <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill -- 968-4501 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> PURPOSE: '1"o receive citizen c•_, <br /> -rnment on a proposed Master Recreation <br /> and Parks Plan for Orange County, revised in March 1988 to <br /> delete one of four proposed elements, "greenways. " <br /> BACKGROUND: In April 1987, work was begun on the <br /> Recreation and Parks Plan for Orange County. The 'proposedeY~ <br /> plan was presented at public hearing on November 23, 1987 and <br /> on February 22, 1988. As a result of citizen and advisory <br /> board concerns, on March 15, 1988, the County Commissioners <br /> voted to delete the greenways element from the Plan, and <br /> requested that the Plan be addressed again at public hearings <br /> On April 19 and May 2, 1988, so that citizens could comment <br /> on the other elements of the Plan. <br /> The Plan is designed to become one element of <br /> Comprehensive Pain and is consistant with other,rcounty��unty� s <br /> ordinances and :Land use plans. The Plan recommends that <br /> Orange County concentrate its efforts in the provision, of <br /> three types of recreation and <br /> park facilities: ( 1 ) community <br /> parks (serving the more densely populated, unincorporated <br /> areas of the county) ; (2) district parks (serving a county- <br /> wide target population) ; and (3) swimming pools. <br /> Revision to the Plan specifically deletes the greenways <br /> element, and all text and/or map legends which reference the <br /> greenways is to be deleted. <br />