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059 <br />Distribution of Land Use Plan Categories <br />RESOURCE PROTECTION AREAS <br />AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION AREAS <br />PUBLIC INTEREST AREAS <br />NEW HOPE CREEK CORRIDOR OPEN SPACE AREAS: New Hope Creek <br />Corridor O en S ace Areas include some of the Resource Protection <br />Areas and -a 2ortion of the Public Private O en Space Areas which <br />were designated-as significant and worthy of protection <br />according to the New Hope Corridor O en S ace Master Plan <br />completed in April of 1991. See Master Plan Ma in the <br />A endices . The areas are art of a system of open space in <br />Durham and Orange Counties along New Hope Creek and its <br />tributaries between Eno River State Park and U.S. Army or s of <br />Engineers land north of Jordan Lake. Th-is-category is made up of <br />critical environmental areas such as stream beds flood plains, <br />steeR slopes, and larger tracts of historic educational or <br />recreational value. <br />[See attached Revision to Eno Township Land Use Plan Map <br />following page 3.10 -17 in the Land Use Element] <br />SECTION 3.12 CHAPEL HILL TOWNSHIP, NORTH OF THE JOINT PLANNING <br />AREA <br />TOWNSHIP PROFILE: SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS <br />Natural Environmental Constraints <br />Cultural and Natural Resources <br />In northern chapel Hill Township is a portion of the New HO Re <br />Creek'0 en S ace Corridor which links the Eno River State Park <br />with the U. - Car s of Engineers' land north of Jordan Lake. <br />Elements of the corridor in this-par of the Townshi are: <br />Rhodes Creek Wildlife Corridor in the 100- ear flood lain from <br />south of Cornwallis Road to Old NC 10• <br />Bike /pedestrian trails along NC Highway 751 Old NC 10 and <br />Mt. Hermon Church Road; and <br />An unpaved nature trails along existing roads within Duke <br />Forest. <br />