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Current Planned Park Capital Projects <br />(Listed alphabetically…from the adopted FY 2017-22 Capital Investment Plan) <br />Park Approved <br />Master Plan? <br />Design Year and <br />Funding <br />Construction Year and <br />Funding <br />Comments <br />Bingham District Park <br />60-120 acres TBA in Bingham <br />Township <br />No FY 22-23 ($300,000) FY 23-24 ($6.7 million)1 Land to be acquired. Located along MST <br />route? Mix of active and low-impact <br />recreation. <br />Blackwood Farm Park <br />152 acres between Hillsborough <br />and Chapel Hill. Opened under <br />limited facilities (Phase 1) and <br />hours June 2015. <br />Yes Existing FY 18-19 (1.8 million) <br />FY 23-24 (602,000) <br />Infrastructure in 2018, Phase 2 in 18-19; <br />Phase 3 in 23-24. Low-impact recreation, <br />nature center, open fields, house repairs, <br />disc golf. (Parks Op Base removed.) <br />Cedar Grove Park <br />44 acres on NC 86 North. Adjacent <br />to community center <br />Yes FY 18-19 (100,000) FY 18-19 (1.64 million) <br /> <br />Phase 2: Ballfields, walking track, trails. <br />Revise master plan to show smaller <br />baseball/softball fields. <br />Fairview Park <br />50-acre park site in north <br />Hillsborough, contains large former <br />Town “landfill.” <br />Yes (update <br />needed by <br />2020) <br />FY 20-21 (In House?) FY 21-22 (1.5 million) Landfill site assessment underway, <br />potentially followed by mitigation FY 19- <br />20 (State funded). Possible park <br />improvements – scale dependent on <br />results of study. Update plan in 2020. <br />Hollow Rock Nature Park <br />72-acre public access area within <br />larger New Hope Preserve. Located <br />south of Erwin Road along New <br />Hope Creek, in Durham and <br />Orange counties. <br />Yes In House FY 18-19 - ?1 <br />Ca FY 24-25 (165,000) <br />Opened June 2016. Joint Orange <br />County/Durham County. Additional work <br />could be done in 2019 if state grant <br />received. Further improvements (shown as <br />FY 24-25) if Pickett Road closed. <br />Little River Regional Park <br />Joint park with Durham County, <br />operated by Orange. Off Guess <br />Road, 391 acres along county line. <br />Yes 2 In House FY 18-19 (50,000) <br />FY 21-22 (250,000) <br />Trails, picnic shelters, nature areas and <br />programs. FY 18-19 funds for Laws house. <br />New playground and trail improvements <br />planned in FY 21-22. Durham County 50% <br />funding. <br /> <br />1 This park could be split into phases. Grant funding may be pursued, or partner funding may exist to offset County costs. <br />2 A master plan was completed in 2002 for the developed portion of the park. OC and DC staffs are working on updated plan to cover entirety of park. <br />5