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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WORKSESSION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: December 2, 2002 Action Agenda Item No. ~ `~j SUBJECT: Lands Legacy Annual Action Plan - FY 2002-2003 DEPARTMENT: Environment and Resource PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No Conservation ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Draft Annual Action Plan 2002-2003 David Stancil, 245-2590 Map of Proposed Priority Areas Rich Shaw, 245-2591 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To consider adoption of the draft Lands Legacy Annual Action Plan for fiscal year 2002-2003. BACKGROUND: The Board adopted the Lands Legacy Program in April 2000. Through this program, Orange County seeks to protect its most critical natural and cultural resources through a variety of voluntary means. Over the first two years of the program, the County has protected 794 acres for future use as parkland, nature preserves, farmland and historic/cultural sites. The Lands Legacy Program is activated by adoption of an Annual Action Plan, concurrent with the CIP process. For this fiscal year, the Action Plan was withheld until decisions about the CIP and bond sales were made, since these directly impact the Action Plan. The draft Annual Action Plan for 2003-04 will be developed this fall and presented for the Board's retreat in January 2003. The Action Plan identifies acquisition priorities for 2002-2003. Given the fact that the fiscal year is already underway, many of the priorities listed in the plan are already familiar to the Board. The draft plan was developed with considerable input from four citizen advisory boards (with their areas of expertise in parentheses): Commission for the Environment (natural areas and prime forest, riparian buffers), Agricultural Preservation Board (farmland preservation), Historic Preservation Board (historic and cultural resources) and the Recreation and Parks Advisory Council (parklands).