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060 <br />PLANNING FRAMEWORK AND APPLICATION <br />Organizing Concepts <br />3. The existing open space system in Chapel Hill Township, <br />including the area north of the Joint Planning Area, which <br />includes Duke Forest, existing agricultural and.forest lands, as <br />well as areas identified in the New'Hope Corridor Open Space <br />Master Plan, should be protected from intrusion by incompatible <br />land uses. <br />Distribution of Land use Plan Categories <br />Land in Chapel Hill Township north of the Joint Planning Area <br />falls into six land classifications. <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 Open S ace. Areas include some of the Resource Protection <br />Areas and__a portion of the Public/Private Open ._ „Space Areas which <br />were designated as significant and worthy of 12rotection <br />according to the New Ho Re Corridor Open Space Master Plan <br />com leted in April of 1991. See Master Plan Map in the <br />Appendices)._ The areas are part of a system of open space in <br />Durham and Orange Counties aloe New Hope Creek and its <br />tributaries between Eno River State Park and U.S. Army Corps of <br />Engineers land north of Jordan Lake. This category is made u of <br />critical environmental areas such as stream beds flood lains <br />steep slopes, and larger tracts of historic, educational, or <br />recreatiolzal_,value. <br />[See attached revision to the Chapel Hill Township, North of the <br />Joint Planning Area, Land Use Plan Map following page 3.12 -10 in <br />the Land Use Element] <br />SECTION 4.1 OVERVIEW OF IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES <br />