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Acknowledgments <br />This report has been prepared by sixteen graduate students in the Department of City and <br />Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, under the direction of <br />Dr. David Godschalk and Dr. Philip Berke, with assistance from teaching assistant Marion <br />Clark. At the request of the Orange County Board of Commissioners, the students in the <br />Planning 223 Land Use Workshop were given the assignment of evaluating three land use <br />alternatives in the Stoney Creek Basin Area. The design alternatives and report are intended to <br />assist the Stoney Creek Basin Planning Group, which was formed to prepare a small area land <br />use plan and implementation recommendations. The Planning Group is made up of members <br />of the Orange County Board of Commissioners, Planning Board, Economic Development <br />Commission, and School Board, Duke Forest, Triangle Land Conservancy, and representatives <br />from neighborhoods within the Planning Area. The formulation of the land use plan will, <br />require further study by the Planning Group, who will also be considering two development <br />alternatives proposed by the Orange County Planning Department. This document is intended <br />to provide a foundation on which future plans may be based. <br />The members of the Planning Workshop class would like to thank Professor David Godschalk, <br />Professor Phil Berke, and Marion Clark for their guidance and assistance throughout the past <br />semester. We would also like to thank everyone in the Orange County Planning Department <br />who took time to assist us, including Marvin Collins for his help with many of our questions, <br />and Miriam Coleman for quickly handling our many requests for maps. We also wish to thank <br />David Stancil, Don Belk, Slade McCalip, Gene Bell, and Mary Willis for providing help in <br />their areas of expertise. We would especially like to thank Randall Arendt of the Natural <br />Lands Trust for taking time from his busy schedule to critique the development options <br />presented in this report. <br />We hope that this report will be useful to the staff and to the Planning Group during their <br />small area planning process. <br />Stoney Creek Basin Small Area Plan <br />