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` y ORANGE COUNTY O Q BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No. FF++ ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: May 17, 1988 SUBJECT: MASTER RECREATION AND PARKS PLAN DEPARTMENT: Recreation, and Parks PUBLIC HEARING YES: NO: XX ATTACHMENT (S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Anne Black Recreation and Parks Advisory TELEPHONE NUMBER- Council Recommendation Hillsborough - 732-8181 Chapel Hill - 968-4501 Five-year P l ann i n g Period Mebane - 227-2031 Funding Req uest Durham - 688-7331 PURPOSE: A report to the Commissioners, presenting the Recreation and Parks Advisory Council' s recommendation concerning tree Recreation and Parks Master Plan. BACKGROUND: Four public hearings concerning the Master Recreation and Parks Plan were held from November 1987 to May 1988. The Advisory Council listened carefully to citizen input regarding the Plan and offers the attached as their recommendation concerning the Plan' s adopt ion. In summary, the Council recommends that : ( 1 ) the Plan be adopted as presented at the last public hearing on May 4, 1988 (with the greenways element deleted) as a planning tool for the Recreation and Parks Department , (2) Chapters 1-6 of the Plan which contain the basic planning elements be adopted as the Recreation, and Parks Element of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan, (3) Chapter 7 of the Plan ( "Plan Implementation" ) be utilized in formulating funding requests for five-year capital improvement planning periods, beginning FY 88/8Y. Revisions to the funding request for the first five-year period are recommended and are attached, also. Implementation of the Plan beyond the first five-year planning period is to be based on annual review of the Plan' s recornmendat i ons and re-examination of population demand and changing demographics.