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7.8 Distribution of Land Use Plan Categories RESOURCE PROTECTION AREAS AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION AREAS PUBLIC INTEREST AREAS NEW HOPE CREEK CORRIDOR OPEN SPACE AREAS: New Hope Creek Corridor O en S ace Areas include some of the Resource Protection Areas and a Portion of the Public Private Open Space Areas which were designated as significant and worthy of Rrotection according to the New Ho a Corridor 012en Space Master Plan completed in A ril of 1991. See Master Plan MaR in the Appendices). The areas are part of a system oL open space in Durham and Orange Counties along New Hope Creek and its tributaries between Eno River State Park and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers_ land north of Jordan Lake. This category_ is made up of critical environmental areas such as stream beds,_floodplains, steep_ slopes, and larger tracts of historic, educational, or recreational value. [See attached Revision to Eno Township Land Use Plan Map following page 3.10 -17 in the Land Use Element] SECTION 3.12 CHAPEL HILL TOWNSHIP, NORTH OF THE JOINT PLANNING AREA TOWNSHIP PROFILE: SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS Natural Environmental Constraints Cultural and Natural Resources In northern Chanel Hill Township is a portion of the New Hobe Creek 0-pen S ace Corridor which links the Eno River State Park with the U.S.-Corps of En ineers' land north of Jordan Lake. Elements of the corridor in this Rart of the Township are: Rhodes Creek Wildlife Corridor in the 100-year flood lain from south of Cornwallis Road to Old NC 10• Bikelpedestrian trails along-NC Highway 751, Old NC 10 and Mt. Hermon Church Road-; ---and An unpaved nature trails alone existing roads within Duke Forest.