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I <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: May 8, 2002 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 9-0 <br /> SUBJECT: Agricultural Conservation Easement f The Warand'a Cauldron <br /> DEPARTMENT: Economic Development PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Dead of Conservation Easement Dianne Reid, ext 2326 <br /> Map (Under Separate Cover) <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough 7324181 <br /> Chapel Hill 9684801 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> Mebane 336-227-2031 <br /> PURPOSE: To accept the deed of easement(smashed)which grants a perpetual easement to <br /> Orange County so that, in offset, all non-agricultural uses of the property will be owned by the <br /> County and the amount of impervious surface available in the two-acre easement property can <br /> be transferred 0 and used with the adjacent industrially zoned property to enable the Wizard's <br /> Cauldron tc complete its plant expansion at 5411 Highway 86 North in Cedar Grove, <br /> BACKGROUND: In 1986, John Troy started a bottling plant in Cedar Grove and launched the <br /> Simply Delicious band of sauces and dressings. The bottling operabon is currently housed in <br /> an approximately 6,000 square foot structure. The total tract on which the plats is located is <br /> 4.96 acres, including NO 86 nghtof-way. <br /> When the business was originally established, zoning was not in place in Cedar Grove <br /> Township. When the area was coned in 1991 the pamel was split into two different zoning <br /> dassifcations. Because this tract is not located within an Identified Commercial or Industrial <br /> Node, the front 2 7-acre portion of the Property was classified as Existing Intluone, The rear <br /> portion of tha property(with 2.26 acres)was zoned Agricultural Residential. The Watershed <br /> Overlay District is South Hyco Creek Protected Watershed, which has a 12 percent maximum <br /> impervious surface limitation. <br /> The plant,as of April 2002, employs thirteen full time staff. Starting pay Is$8.00 per hour, with <br /> average pay well above that. The company currently makes over one hundred private label and <br /> store band sauces and dressings for the organic toed trade. Customers include: Whole Foods <br /> Market. Moosewoo l Restaurant, Premier Japan, Simply Delicious, Mr. Spice, Rainforest <br /> Organic,Albert's Organics and Dr.Atkins. <br /> The company expects business to triple over the next 36 months. The organic market is <br /> growing faster Nan any segment in the food industry, and the Wizard's Cauldron is poised to <br /> take the lead role in the processing of certified organic sauces, condiments and dressing. In <br />