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O R A N G G E C O U N T Y <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date Mav 28 -, 1991 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item # c 2 <br />SUBJECT: NEW HOPE CORRIDOR OPEN SPACE MASTER PLAN <br />DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING: X —Yes No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />New Hope Corridor Open Space <br />Master Plan <br />Technical Appendices <br />(Both under separate cover) <br />Master Plan Map <br />015- <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: Emily Cameron <br />Extension 2580 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough - 732 -8181 <br />Durham - 688 --7331 <br />Mebane - 227 -2031 <br />Chapel Hill - 967- 9251/968 -4501 <br />PURPOSE: To receive citizen comment on the New Hope Corridor <br />Open Space Master Plan. <br />BACKGROUND: On September 1, 1987, Mayor Gulley of Durham met with <br />the Mayor of Chapel Hill and the Chairs of the Orange <br />County and Durham County Boards of Commissioners to <br />discuss a cooperative project involving open space <br />preservation along New Hope Creek. The scope of the <br />project was defined to include land along New Hope <br />Creek between Eno River State Park and U.S. Army Corps <br />of Engineers land north of Jordan Lake. During the <br />following fifteen months, staff members from each <br />jurisdiction's planning department met to work out <br />alternatives for project implementation. <br />In December of 1988, the elected officials again met <br />to review the open space plan proposal and agreed to <br />send a resolution to the governing body of each <br />jurisdiction, seeking endorsement of the project. The <br />Resolution (page 17, Technical Appendices) was adopted <br />br the four jurisdictions during the spring of the <br />following year. Coulter Associates, Landscape <br />Architects and Land Planners, were hired as the <br />consultant later that year. Ken Coulter will present <br />the Master Plan at the public hearing. <br />Since October 1989, an appointed Advisory Committee <br />representing each of the four jurisdictions met with <br />the consultant and planning staff members to produce <br />