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1 <br /> ORD-2019-006 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: March 7, 2019 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 8-h <br /> SUBJECT: Request for Funding Assistance — Triangle Land Conservancy, and Approval of <br /> Budget Amendment #6-B <br /> DEPARTMENT: Environment, Agriculture, Parks <br /> & Recreation (DEAPR) <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 1. Letter from Triangle Land David Stancil, 245-2510 <br /> Conservancy Kim Livingston, 245-2514 <br /> 2. Location Map <br /> 3. Site Map <br /> 4. Orange County Grant Agreement <br /> PURPOSE: To consider providing $109,260 in grant funding assistance to Triangle Land <br /> Conservancy for the purchase of a 60-acre property adjoining Triangle Land Conservancy's <br /> George and Julia Brumley Family Nature Preserve, and approve Budget Amendment #6-B. <br /> BACKGROUND: Triangle Land Conservancy (TLC) is planning to purchase a 60-acre property <br /> located on University Station Road just south of Old NC 10 adjacent to its 613-acre George and <br /> Julia Brumley Family Nature Preserve (Eno Township). This property is owned by Buzzlitz, LLC <br /> of Durham, and will become an expansion of the preserve. <br /> The acquisition of this property by TLC will protect the existing forested buffer located <br /> immediately adjacent to a tributary of Stony Creek that forms the border between the Buzzlitz <br /> property and Brumley properties. Once the tributary leaves the property, it travels to Stony <br /> Creek, which bisects TLC's Brumley Preserve, then enters the Lower Eno 1.8 miles <br /> downstream. The entirely forested property also adds protection to the identified significant <br /> natural heritage area (Stony Creek Spring) in the 487-acre Duke Forest just one mile west of the <br /> property and adjacent to TLC's Brumley Preserve. <br /> Acquisition of the Buzzlitz property adds to the potential for developing a 25-mile open space <br /> corridor that would extend north from Jordan Lake to Eno River State Park, and offers <br /> opportunities for developing trail and wildlife connections from the Brumley tract to Eno River <br /> State Park. <br /> The actual funds disbursement would not occur until TLC has procured all necessary funds for <br /> the purchase of the property. A grant agreement addressing the terms of the funding is <br /> attached. <br />