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7 11 <br /> Critical Areas to Maintain or Improve Oualitv of Life <br /> Environment and Land Use <br /> Grail: Promote Land Use Patterns that Mew Our Cithems'Needs While <br /> Protecting Natural Resources <br /> Activities ongoing in Chapel Hill: <br /> Estalreturam brand strict adherence to an Urban Growth Boundary. <br /> • Active and vigorous participation in Joint Planing with Carrboro and Orange County. <br /> • Mixed use development actively encouraged. <br /> • Aggressive ernvlroiwental protection provisions built into Clmpel Hill Development <br /> Ordinance_ <br /> Goal z: Conserve Natural Areus,Functional and Other Important Open Space <br /> Activities onpoing in Chapel Hill. <br /> • Active work with Triangle Land Conservancy. NC Botanical Gorden.coupled with Town <br /> purchase of land to preserre key tracts of open space. <br /> • Open Space and recreation requirements in development regulations serve to preserve <br /> land as pan of develupment process_ <br /> • Bond Initiatives conceived and intplemcmed in Chapel Hill to acquire open space. <br /> • Emphasis placed in all ner laces timing.both public and private,to avoid inactive exotic <br /> plants. <br /> Goal 3: Create En%interstitially Sustainable Transportation Systems that Meet <br /> People's Needs <br /> Activities ongoing in Chapel Hill. <br /> Operation of North Carolina's most successful public transit system. <br /> 4 <br />