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3 <br />b. Following old NC 10 to Mt. Hermon Church <br />Road, across US Highway 70 to Pleasant Green <br />Road to reach Eno River State Park. <br />One of the implementation recommendations made by the <br />Advisory Committee is that a permanent Advisory <br />Committee be established to oversee progress of the <br />Master Plan, make budget recommendations relating to <br />the corridor, review development proposals affecting <br />the corridor, and encourage citizen involvement in the <br />corridor project. The permanent Advisory Committee <br />could be made up of members of existing open space/ <br />planning groups supplemented by corridor property <br />owners and other interested citizens. It would report <br />to the four governing bodies with jurisdiction over <br />the corridor. <br />In August of 1990, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service <br />designated New Hope Creek as an "Important Regional <br />Wetland." Preservation of the corridor will serve <br />aesthetic, environmental, educational, recreational, <br />as -well as growth management purposes to benefit not <br />only Orange and Durham Counties, but the entire <br />Triangle region. <br />The'New Hope Corridor Open Space Master Plan was <br />presented by the consultant at the public hearing on <br />May 28, 1991. Following the presentation, discussion <br />included endorsement of bike paths, protecting open <br />space between Durham and Hillsborough, and a landfill <br />site under consideration that overlaps part of <br />the New Hope Corridor. Minutes of the hearing are <br />attached. <br />On June 17, the Planning Board made the following <br />recommendations concerning the New Hope Corridor Open <br />Space Master Plan: <br />1. Incorporate the Plan as an element of the <br />Comprehensive Plan for Orange County; <br />2. Direct the Planning Staff to coordinate with the <br />Chapel Hill Planning Staff and propose <br />appropriate amendments to the Joint Planning <br />Area Land Use Plan, including recommendations <br />from the New Hope Corridor Master Plan; and <br />3. Direct the Planning Staff to provide information <br />to the Rural Character Study Committee, the <br />Planning Board /EDC Work Group, the Planning <br />Board, and the Commissioners and Town Council <br />members working on the Hillsborough Cooperative <br />Planning Zone about the land in private <br />ownership, utility easements, railroad right -of- <br />