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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />WORK SESSION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 31, 2006 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. a <br />SUBJECT: Lands Legacy Action Plan for FY 2006 -08 <br />DEPARTMENT: Environment and Resource PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />Conservation <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. Draft Annual Action Plan 2006 -08 <br />1.a. Map of Proposed Priority Areas <br />1.b. Acquisitions to Date (2000 -2006) <br />2, Expanding the Nature Preserves <br />Concept (Upper Eno Preserve) <br />3, Modifying Lands Legacy Farmland <br />Preservation Chapter <br />4. Assessment of Long -Term <br />Protection Mechanisms for County <br />Lands <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />David Stancil, 245 -2590 <br />Rich Shaw, 245 -2591 <br />PURPOSE: To receive, provide feedback as necessary, and consider adoption of the <br />draft Lands Legacy Action Plan for fiscal years 2006 -07 and 2007 -08. <br />BACKGROUND: The Board of Commissioners adopted the Lands Legacy Program in <br />April 2000. Through this program, Orange County seeks to protect its most critical natural <br />and cultural resources through a variety of voluntary means. Since 2000, the County has <br />acquired 1,663 acres for a variety of parks or conservation purposes such as new <br />parklands, nature preserves, conservation easements on farmland and natural lands, <br />cultural resources, and watershed buffer lands. The County has also participated in the <br />acquisition or protection of an additional 1,197 acres with other partners during this same <br />timeframe, for a total of 2,860 acres. Many of the projects are accomplished in <br />partnership with other conservation entities, including Triangle Land Conservancy, Orange <br />Water & Sewer Authority, Eno River Association, USDA and the Orange Soil and Water <br />Conservation District, and adjoining local governments. <br />The Lands Legacy Program is operationalized each two years by adoption of a two -year <br />Action Plan. The Action Plan presented herein reflects acquisition priorities for the 24- <br />month period beginning July 1, 2006 and ending June 30, 2008. Since the FY 2006 -07 <br />fiscal year is already underway, some of the priorities listed in the plan are already familiar <br />to the Board, such as the farmland conservation easement projects. Other projects are <br />multi -year projects that are repeated from the previous action plan, Finally, as is the case <br />