Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
M <br />Attachment 2 <br />Excerpt from "Report of the Joint Master .Recreation and Parks Work Group" (May, 1999) <br />a, Develop Phase II - Efland-Cheeks School/Community Park. (In progress) <br />b. Develop Courthouse/River Park (jointly with Town of Hillsborough). <br />c. Develop Fairview Community Park & renovate playground. <br />d. Develop a Master Plan for Northern Human Services Center Park and <br />renovate the building. <br />e. Renovate the Central Recreation Center Heating and Air System and <br />replace windows. <br />f. Acquire parkland in Little River and Chapel Hill/Bingham Township. <br />g. Develop a joint Park planning effort with OWASA. <br />h. Continue joint planning efforts with the school systems for locating <br />schools and park sites and to construct larger gymnasiums at future <br />schools to address the overcrowding of indoor recreation activities. <br />2. Town of Chapel Hill <br />The Town has recently begun updating its comprehensive plan. The new plan <br />will: <br />• Include a section on parks and recreation <br />• Call for plan to be completed in fall of 1999 <br />The Town's comprehensive plan was last updated in 1989. The Town Council <br />adopted a Greenways Comprehensive Master Plan on May 26, 1998. <br />Needs identified include: <br />a. Future Development of Northern Community Park <br />At its September 28, 1998 Council adopted the following actions; 1) from FY98- <br />99 budget appropriated for conceptual plan process of aquatic facility/community <br />center; and 2) $200,000 in Town park bonds allocated for development of <br />