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• Taken together, these factors point to the need to expand recreation and park facilities and services at an accelerating rate over the coming years . II. Local Land Use Ordinances and Park Standards Local Land Use Ordinances • All three jurisdictions (Carrboro , Chapel Hill and Orange County) have historically recognized the significance of requiring " set aside " requirements for recreation within their subdivision ordinances . A jurisdiction has two ways to develop a park system, through the general taxpayer and requiring developers to contribute . • All have the provision to accept a cash payment in lieu of providing lands or facilities within the subdivision. This provides the flexibility to serve needs of the subject subdivision and the broader community. • The three jurisdictions can allow for off-site improvements or donations of land to provide for large, planned park sites contributed to by more than one subdivision . • All three jurisdictions have flexibility in requiring land, developed facilities , or both . • Chapel Hill and Orange County regulations are written to be land intensive while Carrboro basically requires that private recreation facilities be included . • Although the three ordinances use different formulae to define their requirements , the philosophy and intent of all three ordinances are the same . • The same ordinance requirements could be considered for all jurisdictions since the net effect of each " set aside " ordinance provision is to allow new development to shoulder their impact on existing and future recreation and park facilities . • Carrboro is presently considering a change to their recreation requirements to become more land intensive due to pressure existing on undeveloped sites in its planning jurisdiction . Total build-out of Carrboro' s planning jurisdiction is projected to occur by the year 2010 . Page 2