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003 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: July A, 1988 Action Agenda Item # t1.4 SUBJECT: MASTER RECREATION & PARKS PLAN DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING Yes x No ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Draft Resolution Planning Director - Ext. 346 (Reference: 6/21/88 BOCC Agenda) Draft 6/21/88 Commissioners Minutes TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough - 732-8181 Durham - 688-7331 Mebane - 227-2031 Chapel Hill - 967-9251 PURPOSE: Consideration of incorporation of the proposed Master Recreation & Parks Plan for Orange County as the Recreation Element of the Comprehensive Plan. BACKGROUND: The proposed Master Recreation & Parks Plan was initially presented at public hearing on November 23, 1987. As a result of citizen and advisory board concerns, revisions to the original document were proposed and subsequently presented at a second public hearing on February 22, 1988. A proposal was also presented to incorporate the Master Recreation & Parks Plan as the Recreation Element of the Comprehensive Plan. The proposed revisions affected only the greenways portion of the Master Recreation & Parks Plan. Proposed natural conservation areas were deleted, and active recreational trails were retained. Due to citizen opposition voiced at the February 22 public hearing and concerns that the greenways issue would adversely affect bond funding opportunities for recreation improvements, the Board of Commissioners, at its March 15 meeting, voted unanimously to delete the greenways element from the Master Recreation & Parks Plan. At its April 4 meeting, the Board scheduled additional public hearings on the Plan for April 19 and May 2 to receive citizen comment on the parks and pools aspects of the Plan.