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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 5, 2004 <br />Action Agenylad <br />Item No. ((pp <br />SUBJECT: Resolution of Approval -Agricultural and Watershed Protection Conservation <br />Easement for John and Carolyn Lloyd <br />DEPARTMENT: Environment and Resource PUBLIC HEARING: (Y!N) No <br />Conservation <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Resolution of Approval <br />Location Map <br />Site Map <br />Offer to Purchase and Contract of Sale <br />Draft Conservation Easement <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />David Stancil, 245-2590 <br />Rich Shaw, 245-2591 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider a resolution to approve the acceptance of an agricultural and <br />watershed protection conservation easement from John and Carolyn Lloyd, the conservation <br />easement to be held jointly by Orange County and the Orange Water and Sewer Authority. <br />BACKGROUND: The acquisition of agricultural conservation easements to help preserve <br />prime farmland in Orange County is a longstanding goal of the Board of Commissioners, and <br />is a priority of the Lands Legacy Program. Since completing the County's first agricultural <br />conservation easement in 2001, Orange County has protected 446 acres of prime farmland <br />and stream corridors through conservation easements, Other farmland easements in the <br />County have been accomplished by the Triangle Land Conservancy and Orange Water & <br />Sewer Authority. <br />John Lloyd contacted ERCD in February 2004 about his interest in placing a conservation <br />easement on his 123-acre farm located along Teer Road in Bingham Township. Because of <br />its location in the Cane Creek watershed, ERCD contacted the Orange Water and Sewer <br />Authority (OWASA) to see whether there was interest in collaborating in an easement project <br />that would protect both farmland and an important stream corridor. <br />The Lloyds raise beef cattle on the 123-acre farm they have owned since 1957. Toms <br />Creek, a major tributary of Cane Creek, flows along the northern boundary and into the <br />nearby Cane Creek Reservoir. The easement would permanently protect 118 acres of the <br />farm, including a conservation corridor along Toms Creek. All future non••agricultural <br />development rights would be purchased and extinguished through the easement, with the <br />