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I <br /> 21 <br /> t <br /> ATTACHMENT A 3 <br /> ' ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> RESOLUTION <br /> Potential Durham County Grant <br /> for Construction of Mountain Bike Trails <br /> at Little Fiver Regional Park and Natural Area <br /> WHEREAS , Orange County and Durham County purchased a 391 -acre property in 2000 - <br /> 2001 for establishing the Little River Regional Park and Natural Area; and <br /> wH EREAS , Orange County and Durham County collaborated with the Triangle Land <br /> Gon rvancy and the Eno River Assooiation to acquire this property for the purposes of <br /> protecting a water supply watershed , preserving irnportant wilidlife habitat and open space , <br /> and providing citizens with an new area for Inw impact recreation ; and <br /> WHEREAS , Orange County and Durham County will Jointly own and manage the park in <br /> accordance with a forthcoming inter-local agreement to be approved by both county boards <br /> of commissioners ; and <br /> WHEREAS , Orange County and Durham County have agreed to allow mountain biking on <br /> designated trails within the park in accordance with a park master plan to beoapproved by <br /> tooth county boards of commissioners ; and <br /> WHEREAS , Durham County has a Matching Grants Program that assists nonprofit <br /> organizations to preserve. open space lands and promote new or improved recreational <br /> opportunities , and <br /> wH EREA . the Durham Open Space and Train Camrnission ( DOBT) , which administers the <br /> Matching Grants Program , has received an application from the DurharrmOrange Mountain <br /> Bike 0rganlzation ( DoM BO ) for matchinrg funds to design , construct and maintain mountain <br /> bike trails in the park; and <br /> WHEREAS , the proposed mountain hike trails would not be constructed until a site, plan for <br /> the park has been developed and approved by both county boards of carrimSsioners : <br /> NOW, THEREFORE , BE IT RESOLVED that the Orange County Board of Commissioners do <br /> hereby agree to the potential awarding of grant funds by Durham County for the <br /> establishment of mountain bike trails at the Little Diver Regional Park and Natural Area on <br /> the conditions that a ) no trail construction occur prior to Park site plan approval by both <br /> Orange County and Durham County Commissioners and b) future maintenance of mountain <br /> bike trails be consistent with an agreement approved by both Orange and Durham counties . <br /> This the 160 day of January , 2002 . <br /> Barry Jacobs , Chair <br /> Orange County Board of Commissioners <br /> Beverly Blythe , Clark to the Board <br />