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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: December 9, 2003 <br />Action Agen a <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Chapel Hill Township Park-Status Report, Selection of Name, and Process <br />for Submittal of Master Plan /Potential Phase I (Park) to Town of Carrboro <br />DEPARTMENT: Environment and Resource PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Conservation <br />ATTACHMENT INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1) Memo /Timetable for Next Steps David Stancil, 245-2590 <br />2) Potential Occonneechi/Saponi Names <br />3) Master Plan Report (under separate cover) <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To receive a status report on the Chapel Hill Township Park and Educational <br />Campus Master Plan, consider selection of a name far the site, and review the process for <br />submittal of the Master Plan and a Conditional Use Permit application for a possible phase I <br />of the Township Park to the Town of Carrboro, <br />BACKGROUND: From September 30, 2002 to May 22, 2003, the 23-member Chapel Hill <br />Township Park and Educational Campus (CHATPEC) Work Group met to create a proposed <br />Master Plan for this 193-acre County-owned site near the intersection of Eubanks Road and <br />Old 86. This Master Plan project was the largest design project ever undertaken by Orange <br />County and was undertaken using a process and set of guiding principles adopted by the <br />Board, Significant attention was paid to the potential sharing of facilities between the <br />educational campus and the park, and several playing field and parking areas are located <br />with this in mind, The design for the site, following site analysis and group discussions of <br />needed/desired facilities, was accomplished via design charettes conducted with the two <br />subcommittees of the Work Group (Educational Campus Subcommittee and Township Park <br />Subcommittee), and subsequent discussions of the Work Group as a whole, <br />On May 22, the Work Group held its final meeting and adopted the attached report, with the <br />opportunity to submit subsequent proposed revisions to the report (these suggested changes <br />were compiled over the summer by staff and are included as an appendix to the report). On <br />.tune 26, a brief status report was presented to the Board. <br />