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9 <br /> 1 VAD= 271.49 acres <br /> 2 (4 parcels) <br /> 3 <br /> 4 Dennis and Linda Brooks <br /> 5 Rocking B Farm <br /> 6 New Hope Agricultural District <br /> 7 Farm includes beef cattle, horses, pastures, and hay crops. <br /> 8 EVAD =113.84 acres * <br /> 9 (2 parcels) <br /> 10 *Since 2012- Farm is in permanent Conservation Easement with Orange Co. and the State of <br /> 11 NC, protecting Hillsborough water supply by excluding livestock and adding riparian buffers to <br /> 12 all the streams on the farm. <br /> 13 <br /> 14 Orange County <br /> 15 Voluntary and Enhanced Voluntary <br /> 16 Agricultural Program <br /> 17 • Requesting approval from Commissioners to accept five (5) farms into the program. <br /> 18 • 421* acres in the Voluntary Agricultural District program <br /> 19 • 126* acres in the Enhanced Voluntary Agricultural District program <br /> 20 • If approved, total of acres increase in both programs= 547 acres* <br /> 21 • * = rounded acres <br /> 22 <br /> 23 Overview Map <br /> 24 December 2016 <br /> 25 VAD = 9320 acres <br /> 26 EVAD = 2144 acres <br /> 27 Total Acres = 11,464* <br /> 28 = rounded acres <br /> 29 <br /> 30 Commissioner Rich thanked Gail Hughes for hosting the first VAD breakfast last week. <br /> 31 <br /> 32 A motion was made by Commissioner Rich, seconded by Commissioner McKee for the <br /> 33 Board to certify the five (5) farm properties noted above totaling 421 acres (VAD) and 126 acres <br /> 34 (EVAD) (rounded acreage) as denoted in the attached documentation as qualifying farmland; <br /> 35 designate them as a Voluntary or Enhanced Voluntary Agricultural District farm within the <br /> 36 Schley/Eno, Cedar Grove, New Hope, and High Rock/Efland Voluntary Agricultural Districts; <br /> 37 and enroll the lands in the Orange County Voluntary Agricultural District (VAD) and the <br /> 38 Enhanced Voluntary Agricultural District (EVAD) programs. With approval of these additional <br /> 39 acres, the Orange County Voluntary Agricultural District Program will have enrolled 78 farms, <br /> 40 totaling 9,320 acres in the VAD and 2,144 acres in the EVAD for a total of 11,464 acres <br /> 41 (rounded) in the program. <br /> 42 <br /> 43 VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> 44 <br /> 45 5. Public Hearings <br /> 46 <br /> 47 a. Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Amendments — Hillsborough Economic <br /> 48 Development District <br />