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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOAR[) OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 18, 2003 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Acceptance of Com~ervation Easement Assignment from the Triangle Land <br />Conservancy -Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill <br />DEPARTMENT: Environment and Resource <br />Conservation <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT <br />A. Location Map <br />B. Property Map <br />C. Conservation Easement <br />D. Conservation Easement Assignment <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />David Stancil, 245-2590 <br />Rich Shaw, 245-2591 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To authorize accepts nce of a conservation easement assignment from the <br />Triangle Land Conservancy for land owned by Trinity School along New Hope Creek, and the <br />subsequent assignment of the easement to the State of North Carolina. <br />BACKGROUND: The Lands Leg;~cy Program, adopted in April 2000, works with landowners <br />and other conservation partners to protect the County's most important natural and cultural <br />resources. Through this program, the County uses a variety of voluntary means to protect <br />lands, including fee-simple acquislition, acceptance of land donations, and purchase or <br />donation of conservation easements. The types of land protected include parkland, natural <br />areas and wildlife habitat, riparian buffers, prime farmland and historic and cultural sites. <br />Since inception, Lands Legacy has protected 860 acres of resource lands in Orange County. <br />ERCD is working with Triangle Land Conservancy (TLC) to acquire riparian lands and <br />conservation easements for an open space corridor along New Hope Creek from the site of <br />the former Hollow Rock Store (Erwin Road) to the Durham County line - a distance of nearly <br />one mile along the creek. This project would link Duke Forest lands in Orange County to <br />New Hope Creek open space in Durham County. The proposed trail will help implement the <br />New Hope Creek Master Plan, ad~~pted in 1989. <br />TLC has negotiated the purchase of a conservation easement on 14.67 acres adjacent to <br />New Hope Creek owned by the Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill. The easement will <br />allow future construction of a public pedestrian trail along the creek and nature trails for use <br />by the school for environmental education. <br />