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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />WORKSESSION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: January 27, 2003 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Action Plans for Lands Legacy and Parks Development <br />DEPARTMENT: Environment and Resource PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Conservation <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Draft Annual Action Plan 2002-2004 David Stancil, 245-2590 <br />Map of Proposed Priority Areas Rich Shaw, 245-2591 <br />Excerpt from Recent TLC Publication Lori Taft, 245-2673 <br />Park Facility Plan Report TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />PFP Chronology Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Staff Memo on Potential Actions Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider adoption of the draft Lands Legacy Annual Action Plan for fiscal <br />years 2002-03 and 2003-04, and to review the updated Park Facility Plan (PFP) process <br />report. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />A. Lands Legacy Annual Action Plan 2002-04 <br />The Board of Commissioners adopted the Lands Legacy Program in April 2000. Through <br />this program, Orange County seeks to protect its most critical natural and cultural <br />resources through a variety of voluntary means. Over the first two years of the program, <br />the County has protected 794 acres for future use as parkland, nature preserves, farmland <br />and historic/cultural sites, with negotiations underway on another 424 acres. <br />The Lands Legacy Program is activated each year by adoption of an Annual Action Plan, <br />concurrent with the CIP process. For this fiscal year, the Action Plan was withheld until <br />decisions about the CIP and bond sales were made, since these directly impact the Action <br />Plan. On December 2, 2002, the Board asked that the current Action Plan be combined <br />with a FY 2003-04 Action Plan, to be considered together as a two-year plan. <br />The Action Plan presented herein reflects acquisition priorities for this fiscal year and <br />2003-04. Since the FY 2002-03 fiscal year is already well underway, many of the priorities <br />listed in the plan are already familiar to the Board. This, plus the many multi-year projects <br />already present, make the conversion to a two-year plan a relatively-simple task.