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3 <br />APPROVEQ <br />GREENE TRACT WORK GROUP <br />A RESOLUTION REPORTING THE RECOMMENDED CONCEPT PLAN FOR THE <br />PORTION OF THE GREENE TRACT THAT REMAINS IN JOINT OWNERSHIP <br />WHEREAS, Orange County and the Towns of Carrboro and Chapel Hill acquired the property <br />known as the Greene Tract in 1984 as an asset of the joint solid waste management system; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, title to 60 acres of this property was deeded exclusively to Orange County in 2000 <br />under provisions of the 1999 interlocal "Agreement for Solid Waste Management"; and <br />WHEREAS, under the same interlocal agreement the County and Towns agreed to bargain in <br />good faith during the two year period following the effective date of the agreement to determine <br />the ultimate use or disposition of the balance of the acreage on the Greene Tract; and <br />WHEREAS, the end date of the "bargaining period" as defined in the agreement was April 17, <br />2002, the second anniversary of the date upon which the County assumed overall responsibility <br />for solid waste management in Orange County; and <br />WHEREAS, the Greene Tract Work Group considered direction from the respective governing <br />boards, comments from interested citizens and organizations, and information developed by <br />staff in response to Work Group inquiries in developing a recommended concept plan for the <br />balance of the Greene Tract; and <br />WHEREAS, the Work Group reported to all three governing boards in a resolution dated March <br />21, 2002 that it had reached substantial agreement on a concept plan providing for <br />approximately 78 acres to be earmarked for open space protected by conservation easements <br />and approximately 15 acres to be earmarked for affordable housing but had not yet reached <br />agreement regarding what designation should be placed on the remaining 11 acres; and <br />WHEREAS, the Work Group had recommended in that March 21, 2002 resolution that the <br />following additional steps be taken: <br />• The area shown on the concept plan as open space should be protected by executing a <br />conservation easement between appropriate parties <br />• The Board of County Commissioners should consider protecting its 60 acre portion of the <br />Greene Tract by executing a conservation easement with an appropriate party <br />• The Chapel Hill Town Council should consider initiating a small area planning process to <br />examine desirable land uses for the Purefoy Road area <br />• The property should be renamed in a manner that recognizes the significance of this area as <br />the headwaters for three important streams (Bolin Creek, Old Field Creek, and Booker <br />Creek) <br />• The governing boards should take note of the public investment already made in the general <br />vicinity of the Greene Tract, as cataloged in an accompanying table; and <br />WHEREAS, the governing boards of all three jurisdictions approved resolutions extending the <br />bargaining period beyond April17, 2002 in order to allow the Greene Tract Work Group <br />additional time to try to reach consensus on the basic uses to be established for the <br />approximately 11 acres at that time unresolved; and <br />