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1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: September 4, 2018 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 8 -g <br />SUBJECT: Ratification — Conservation Easement for Tunnel's End Horse Farm <br />DEPARTMENT: Environment, Agriculture, Parks <br />and Recreation (DEAPR) <br />ATTACHMENTS INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1. Location Map David Stancil, 245 -2510 <br />2. Site Map Kim Livingston, 245 -2514 <br />3. Executed Conservation Easement <br />PURPOSE: To ratify the County Manager's decision to accept an agricultural conservation <br />easement for Tunnel's End Horse Farm. <br />BACKGROUND: The acquisition of conservation easements to protect highly important <br />natural and cultural resource lands in Orange County is a longstanding goal of the Board of <br />Commissioners, and is a priority of the Lands Legacy program. Since 2001, the County has <br />partnered with landowners and other entities to protect 2,313 acres of significant natural <br />areas and prime farmland with permanent conservation easements. <br />Ms. Marianne Wegner contacted the County just before the Board of County Commissioners' <br />summer break and expressed her wishes to donate to the County a conservation easement <br />on her 16 -acre horse farm in an expedited fashion due to health reasons. Tunnel's End <br />Horse Farm is located on Walnut Grove Church Road (Cedar Grove Township) just south of <br />the Underwood property which already holds an Orange County conservation easement. <br />Given the extenuating circumstances, the County Manager, after consulting with the BOCC <br />Chair and Vice - Chair, accepted this conservation easement, and the transaction closed on <br />August 15, 2018. <br />The 16 -acre farm property is located in the Little River Protected Watershed, a priority <br />watershed for acquiring agricultural easements in a dual effort to protect prime farmland and <br />drinking water quality. The farm has 200 feet of frontage along the South Fork Little River, <br />which supplies drinking water for the City of Durham. There are also two Natural Heritage <br />Areas just 500 -feet downstream of this property — South Fork Little River Marsh and Little <br />River Aquatic Habitat. <br />Ms. Wegner donated a permanent conservation easement that restricts future development <br />to protect prime farmland and streams, as well as scenic views of the farmland from Walnut <br />Grove Church Road. There is one existing residence on the property. The easement <br />prohibits future subdivision of the property and protects forested stream buffers located on <br />the farm. Future farm activities will be in accordance with a Conservation Plan prepared for <br />
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