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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF GOMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 21, 2006 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. c~ <br />SUBJECT: Request from Town of Carrboro for Land Transfers <br />DEPARTMENT: County Attorney, ERCD, PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Planning, Purchasing <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Geof Gledhill, 732-2196 <br />Letter and Resolution from Carrboro David Stancil 245-2590 <br />Maps Craig Benedict, 245-2575 <br />Pam Jones, 245-2660 <br />PURPOSE: To consider a request from the Town of Carrboro for the conveyance of land within <br />the Town limits that is awned by the County. <br />BACKGROUND: On August 16~h, the Town of Carrboro received a report from Town staff on <br />conservation mapping within the Town's jurisdiction, including land on or near to Bolin Creek. <br />The report included two properties owned by Orange County, <br />One parcel is a small 0.2 acre lot (tax map reference 7.93.F,2) at the corner of Broad Street and <br />Hill Street in Carrboro, The lot is east of the railroad spur into the UNC campus and is near <br />downtown of both Carrboro and Chapel Hill. The Board may recall an agenda item this spring <br />regarding an OWASA easement on this parcel, which is across Broad Street from the Town's <br />Baldwin Park. Baldwin Park is a small neighborhood mini-park with a play area, field and <br />basketball goal Carrboro has requested that this property be conveyed to the Town for "an <br />opportunity to enhance Baldwin Park landscaping and stream stewardship." Orange County <br />obtained this parcel via a tax lien in 1977. <br />The second parcel has recently been annexed into the Town limits with the annexation of areas <br />north of Town. At the time of request, it was within the Town's Transition Area under the Joint <br />Planning Area Land Use Plan. This lot is 5.03 acres in size (tax map reference 7,23E,.6), and is <br />at the back section of Fax Meadow subdivision. This was a land dedication to the County for <br />parks and open space made at the time of subdivision approval in October of 1992 (the original <br />subdivision and plan to donate this parcel predated the Joint Planning Agreement), The lot is <br />located along Jones Creek and is approximately 1500 feet downstream of the southeast corner <br />of the future Twin Creeks Park. The Town's request for this property notes that it "would enable <br />