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1 £ 4 j itiai £ NC Clean Water Managemont Trust Fund and the `US Land & '►dater Conservation .Fund) We have obtained rough consultixi. g estimates ranging from a0 , { 00,w 50 ,000. e nrade� a similarIF FA request to the Chapel 11111 Town Council last November and. the Carrboro Board of Aldermen in January. Both towns -responded enthusiastically to our proposal . We area keenly aware of the success of the Now Hope Master flan which has served as a blueprint ire. identifying critical � acquisition and rot past protection over the ast decade and believe that this 1epp r roach will. be parcels for accl p £ ` similarly useful in guiding the acquisition and preservation of the Bolin Creek Corridor. Why should we preserve the Bolin Creek Corridor`? We believe the following four reasons are very important. ( 1 ) With burgeoning growth in southern Orange County, this is a critical period where it is essential to carefully manage u.,rban growth in the Bolin Creek Watershed . If the watershed is not preserved over the ne✓xt .fcw years , the; opportunity will be last forever. Although the Chapel bill sections of the watershed are largely built out, construction upstream in Carrboro and the NTorthern Transition Zone could have enormous impact on the entire watershed , exacerbating the chronic flood problems in the University Mall/Camelot Apartments area.. IF IF ( ) `There is are important need to est tblisl � cnnncctivity of natural areas, existing and III planned parks and greenways . Chapel Hill has built a very popular, extensively used greenwaylbikeway stretching along Bolin Creek from the Community Center on. Estes Drive to Airport Road ,, but it is along way from there to the headwaters ! It is our dream to continue the: Chapel Hill Gree✓nway from Airport Road to Unistea.d Perk: and Estes Dri.�ve, to have the state DOT restore the streatnbed under Estes Drive Extension and build a bridge over the creek wide enough to allow wildlife and greenway corridors ( as IF part of the improvements that will be made to bates Drive to accommodate traffic to the neNv Horace: Williams Campus) , connect to Wilson Park and the planned. CarrboroIF Clreenway, rust connectors to SeaweJll .Elementary, Smith Middle and Chapel Hill High ellools, a passible connector along the; tributary which ansets on the Greene '.l"ract, and another segment continuing through Wintnore up Jones Greek to the planned County Park. (3 ) We want to preserve the last intact stretches of tiative forest habitat remaining in. southern Oron. ge County . Two studies by Triangle Land Conservancy within the last fives years identified. much of.' the forest areas in the Horace Williartls "Tract arid the; Northern 'I`ransi.tion Zone as botanically sensitive and ecologically valuable (A Landscape With Wildlife far Ot•cutgre County and A Landscape With Tildlife for Orange County, Part II by Haven Wiley, Steve Hall. and Livy Ludingtcn) . .Another natural treasure is the Adams Tract , about 30 acres between Estes Drive and Watters Road in Carrboro . This Jewel is an important gateway and access to the park: and preserve that we want to establish. Carrboro has already obtained about 2200 . from the NC Clean Water Managen e;.nt Trust Fund, has requested 75' t1K brand funds from Oran ge County, and is exploring a variety of other lfindi.ng sources to purchase this tract. We view acquisition of the Adams Tract as the first critical step in realizing the proposed masterIF IF plan ! IF IF I I IF I IF