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1 ` <br />O R A N G E C O U N T Y <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date August 20, 1991 <br />SUBJECT: NEW HOPE CORRIDOR OPEN SPACE MASTER PLAN <br />DEPARTMENT: PLANNING <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />New Hope Corridor Open Space <br />Master Plan <br />Technical Appendices <br />(Distributed with 5/20/91 agenda) <br />Master Plan Map <br />5/28/91 Public Hearing <br />Minutes <br />6/17/91 Planning Board Minutes <br />Action Agenda <br />Item # V <br />PUBLIC HEARING: Yes —X —No <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: Consideration of the New Hope Corridor Open Space <br />Master Plan. <br />BACKGROUND: On September 1, 1987, former Mayor Gulley of Durham <br />met with the Mayor of Chapel Hill and the Chairs of <br />the Orange County and Durham County Boards of <br />Commissioners to discuss a cooperative project <br />involving open space preservation along New Hope <br />Creek. The scope of the project was defined to include <br />land along New Hope Creek between Eno River State Park <br />and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land north of Jordan <br />Lake. During the following fifteen months, staff <br />members from each jurisdiction's planning department <br />met to work out alternatives for project <br />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 />by 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. <br />Since October 1989, an appointed Advisory Committee <br />representing each of the four jurisdictions met with <br />the consultant and planning staff members t d <br />o pro uce <br />