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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br /> WORKSESSION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date : December 2 , 2002 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No . f <br /> SUBJECT : Lands Le ac Annual Action Plan — FY 2002 - 2003 <br /> DEPARTMENT : Environment and Resource PUBLIC HEARING : (Y/ N ) No <br /> Conservation <br /> ATTACHMENT ( S ) a I INFORMATION CONTACT : <br /> Draft Annual Action Plan 2002 -2003 David Stancil , 245 - 2590 <br /> Map of Proposed Priority Areas Rich Shaw , 245 -2591 <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS : <br /> Hillsborough 732 = 8181 <br /> Chapel Hill 9684501 <br /> Durham 688 =7331 <br /> Mebane 336 =227 =2031 <br /> PURPOSE : To consider adoption of the draft Lands Legacy Annual Action Plan for fiscal <br /> year 2002 - 2003 . <br /> BACKGROUND : The Board adopted the Lands Legacy Program in April 2000 . Through <br /> this program , Orange County seeks to protect its most critical natural and cultural <br /> resources through a variety of voluntary means . Over the first two years of the program , <br /> the County has protected 794 acres for future use as parkland , nature preserves , farmland <br /> and historic/ cultural sites . <br /> The Lands Legacy Program is activated by adoption of an Annual Action Plan , concurrent <br /> with the CIP process . For this fiscal year , the Action Plan was withheld until decisions <br /> about the CIP and bond sales were made , since these directly impact the Action Plan . <br /> The draft Annual Action Plan for 2003 = 04 will be developed this fall and presented for the <br /> Board ' s retreat in January 2003 . <br /> The Action Plan identifies acquisition priorities for 2002 -2003 . Given the fact that the fiscal <br /> year is already underway , many of the priorities listed in the plan are already familiar to the <br /> Board . The draft plan was developed with considerable input from four citizen advisory <br /> boards (with their areas of expertise in parentheses ) : Commission for the Environment <br /> ( natural areas and prime forest , riparian buffers ) , Agricultural Preservation Board <br /> (farmland preservation ) , Historic Preservation Board ( historic and cultural resources ) and <br /> the Recreation and Parks Advisory Council ( parklands ) . <br />