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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: September 12, 2006 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~--F <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 />Lands Legacy Action Plan 2006-08 <br />Map of Proposed Priority Areas <br />Acquisitions to Date (2000-2006) <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />David 5tancil, 245-2590 <br />Rich Shaw, 245-2591 <br />PURPOSE: To consider adoption of the Lands Legacy Action Plan for fiscal years 2006- <br />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 />with each Action Plan, some new potential projects are offered for the Board's <br />consideration. <br />As in years past, the draft plan was developed with input from citizen advisory boards <br />(listed with their areas of expertise in parentheses): Commission for the Environment <br />