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Orange County acquired four contiguous tracts of land (193 acres total) from the Cate and Hunter families in June 2001 for the proposed Chapel Hill Township Park and Educational Campus (CHATPEC). The acquisition of the Hunter (northernmost) property was in conjunction with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. The property is located east of Old NC 86 and south of Eubanks Road within the Carrboro "Northern Transition Area." The following information has been gleaned from data gathered as part of an ERCD staff evaluation, prior to land acquisition. The report breaks down the site details first by general information that relates to the site as a whole, and then by the individual sub-components of the Pre-Concept Plan. [07IffiI Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan and Water /Sewer This plan, adopted in 1987, governs the land uses in the areas surrounding Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro are all parties to the Joint Planning Area (JPA) Agreement, and any changes to the land use plan require adoption by all three governing bodies. The JPA Land Use Plan is incorporated by reference I to the County's overall Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan. The 193-acre CHATPEC site is classified as Transition Area 11 in the Joint IPA Land Use Plan. According to the Plan, land within Carrboro Transition Area II may not be developed at a density that exceeds 1 dwelling/acre, until at least 75% of the gross land area of Transition Area I has developed. This site is identified as a potential park in the JPA Plan, and is within the Bolin Creek drainage basin (Cape Fear Watershed). The site would be served by extension of a gravity sewer collection system in Lake Hogan Farms to the south, which feeds into OWASAs existing wastewater treatment facility. Access to water is present on the site along Old 86. Resource Protection Areas are identified along the Jones Creek and Buckhorn Branch riparian corridors. The JPA Plan also identifies a proposed greenway along Jones Creek, which links further downstream to the Bolin Creek greenway system.