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Compiled by Orange County Budget Office <br />O6/07/2001 <br />C-2 <br />Appendix C: Needs Presented to Capital Needs Advisory Task Force <br />Through May 2, 2001 <br />(shown in alphabetical order) <br />Request ~ Description ~ Amount of Funding Requested <br />and Open Space <br />University Statian/New Hope Park -Acquisition of 75 to <br />150 acres in University Station/New Hope area (northern 1,700,000 <br />Chapel Hill Township); could be school/park co-location <br />Bingham District Park -Transaction costs for acquisition <br />of 100 acres in northern Bingham Township (located on 50,000 <br />land owned by OWASA) <br />Northern Chapel Hill Township Rustic Woodland Trail - <br />Acquisition of several isolated strips of land that connect <br />Town of Chapel Hill and County Parks to Triangle Land 600,000 <br />Conservancy trails and Duke Forest open space <br />network, tying together Town greenways system and <br />New Hone oven spaces <br />"Mason Farm to Jordan Lake" Rustic Woodland Trail - <br />Acquisition of 1-to-2 isolated strips of land to connect <br />UNC lands at Masan Farm/Botanical Garden to Durham 100,000 <br />County line (to pickup connection to Jordan Lake <br />Joint TowMCounty Open Space Projects (Town Parks <br />N and/or Gt~eenway Plans) -Acquisition space for Towns, cz~ <br />~ consistent with joint parks/open space criteria, identified <br />~ b Town lans/a roved b .Coup <br />~ Top priority NC Natural Heritage sites -Acquisition of <br />~ (by purchase or easement) 500 acres in Chapel Hill, 3,250,000 <br />~ Bin ham, Cheeks, Hillsborou hand Eno Townshi s <br />U <br />Top priority Unprofecfed Prime Forests -Acquisition of <br />(by purchase or easement) 300 acres of unidentified and 1,800,000 <br />Seven Mile Creek Nature Preserve -Acquisition of (by <br />purchase or easement) 500 acres toward Seven Mile 2,500,000 <br />Pickards Mountain Natural Area -Acquisition of 25 <br />additional acres adjacent to Triangle Land Conservancy 125,000 <br />easements at Pickards Mountain in Bingham Township <br />Conservation Easements in Cane Creek, Upper Eno, <br />Back Creek and Little River watersheds -Acquisition of <br />conservation easements on 900 acres of farmland per 1,400,000 <br />year (to protect water quality and prime or threatened <br />Chapel Hill Township District Park Phase 1, with <br />Camboro -Construct 3 multipurpose playing fields (one 1,500,000 <br />of which is a regulation soccer field), nature and <br />environmental trails, picnic areas, and basketball courts <br />