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3 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS RESOLUTION FOR THE ACCEPTING A CONSERVATION EASEMENT TO PROTECT NEW HOPE CREEK CORRIDOR (TRINITY SCHOOL PROPERTY) WHEREAS, two of the primary goals of the Orange County Lands Legacy program, established by the Board of County Commissioners in April 2000, is the protection of identified wildlife corridors and riparian buffers in water supply watersheds, and WHEREAS, Triangle Land Conservancy (TLC), a private non-profit land trust with like conservation goals, is working with Orange County to acquire riparian lands and conservation easements for an open space corridor along New Hope Creek from Erwin Road to the Durham County line, and WHEREAS, protecting these riparian lands will preserve an identified wildlife corridor and provide an opportunity for developing a public trail linking sections of New Hope Creek in Duke Forest (Korstian Division) with public lands in Durham County, and WHEREAS, completing said trail corridor will help implement the New Hope Creek Corridor Master Plan, adopted by Orange County, Durham County, the City of Durham and the Town of Chapel Hill in 1989, and WHEREAS, TLC has agreed with the Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill on the purchase of a conservation easement to protect approximately 14.86 acres of a property that Trinity School owns adjacent to New Hope Creek, and WHEREAS, TLC and the County have agreed that TLC will convey the conservation easement to Orange County, and WHEREAS, Orange County and TLC and the Trinity School have generally agreed on the language of said conservation easement to be purchased by TLC and conveyed to the County, and WHEREAS, the joint acquisition of this property is exemplary of the County's ongoing collaboration and partnership with Triangle Land Conservancy and other conservation organizations;