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~~.x~ <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />CHAPEL HILL TOWN COUNCIL <br />CARRBORO BOARD OF ALDERMEN <br />JOINT PLANNING AREA PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 29. 2004 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. D.2. <br />SUBJECT• Twin Creeks (Moniese Nomp) - <br />DEPARTMENT: Environment and Resource PUBLIC HEARING: (YlN) NO <br />Conservation <br />ATTACHMENT INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1) Master Plan Draft Map David Stancil, 245-2590 <br />2) List of Previous Discussions /Other Issues <br />'TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />Pl1RPOSE: To review and discuss the Master Plan (received on 12/9/2003) for Twin Creeks <br />(Moniese Nomp), a 193-acre park and educational campus site located north 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 />June 26, a brief status report was presented to the Board, <br />The Master Plan design contains a 96-acre park with a balance of low-impact and active <br />recreation. While the majority of the total land area in the park is left in a natural state or <br />proposed for low-impact recreation, there is a substantial active recreation portion of the <br />G:\Comprehensivc Planning Div\GENE\2004 Public Hcarings\Mar 29 JPA\Twin Creeks\iCNfN-32904jpa Abs doe j <br />