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Lands Legacy Interim Action Plan Adopted 5/3/00 Priority List for May 2000-June 200*1 The following priorities are culled from the list of objectives on the previous page. They have been developed by staff and the BOCC Open Space Task Force, using a variety of relevant source documents including the State of the Environment report, the Joint Master Recreation and Parks Work Group report, and others. Priority Need ' poEstimated Cost*- Timetable Purchase land (100-200 acres) Combination of active recreation Between $0.93 and $1.77 Identify potential sites by June for a district/regional park (fields, picnic areas) and low impact million, depending on location 2000; negotiate purchase June- between Chapel Hill/Carrboro recreation, preserving any natural August, 2000; close by October and Hillsborough areas or prime forest. Serve-as 2000. central junction of future trail links between Towns and Eno River/County parks. Potential for school site co-location? Purchase additional 25-60 acres Active recreation (baseball, soccer $75,000 to $240,000, As soon as possible. at Northern Human Services and softball fields), low-impact depending on amount of Center, and convert from recreation (trails, picnic areas), acreage purchased. community park into "Cedar water-based recreation? Grove District Park". Purchase or otherwise acquire Preserve one of the County's largest $500,000 to $2.1 million, Meet with potential partner lands in the Seven-Mile Creek intact identified natural areas (which depending on the amount of entities to pursue collaboration, Natural Area, especially those already contains land preserved by land acquired and method of pursue potential acquisitions as that are part of the identified the County, and other entities). In acquisition (fee-simple, they are economically natural areas/wildlife habitat the long-term, work to create a conservation easement, etc) practical. This might be a adjacent to County lands. Partner "Seven-Mile Creek Nature multi-year initiative, with an with other groups where possible Preserve", containing the identified estimated timetable of 2000- (Eno River Association, Eno natural areas/wildlife habitat and 2004. River State Park, TLC) and adjoining lands. Some nature trails explore alternative acquisition in less-sensitive areas could be methods. pursued.