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Proposed Recommendations to the Board of Commissioners Regarding the County's Twin Creeks Park 1. Instruct Rich Shaw and other staff to develop a conservation easement or easements for all azeas of the Park which are not planned to be developed, especially the rhyolite site, streams and stream buffers, slopes, the pond and meadow, and forested areas shown as undeveloped on the current plan. 2. Allow Mary Ayers and Rich Shaw to continue to identify trees on the Park site which are less than 18 inches in circumference but which are of special or native species, place them on a survey and use this survey to protect said trees from development. 3. Develop a plan to use boardwalks, which aze used far example at Lake Crabtree Park or at the Johnson Mill Nature Preserve on Turkey Farm Road in (}range County, for walking trails along the two streams on the site, and solicit local Boy Scout Troops to help build them and the trails, 4. Instead of curb and gutter and pavement for roads and the parking areas, use gravel, swales and other methods associated with Low Impact Development (I,ID) practises. S. Allow the Planning Board to have its Chair and Vice-Chair, or proxy, have notice of, attend and participate in all negotiations with the Town of Carrboro regarding the development of the Park Site. 6. Allow the Planning Board to review all constnzction drawings for the Park before submittal to and review by the Board of Commissioners. 7. Create opportunities, including separate work forces, for members of the local birding communities and gardening communities to make recommendations for the creation of bird habitats on the site, including the meadow, for the creation of gardening, bird and other habit growth on the power line easement rnnning through the property, and for the creation of stonnwater wetlands for any stormwater retention ponds in a manner similar to what has been done at the Ellerbe Creek on the Hallandale Golf Course in Durham. (see www.ellerbecreek.ora and stormwater wetlands). 8. Examine carefully the justification for the number of parking spaces shown on the current plan.