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,~ ~~ ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: February 29, 2000 Action Agenda Item No. 9 - a SUBJECT: Greene Tract -Cultural Resource and Biological Resources Surveys DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): 2/23/00 ERCD Director Memo w/summaries INFORMATION CONTACT: Rod Visser, ext 2300 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Cultural Resource Survey Hillsborough 732-8181 Biological Resources Survey (Interim) Chapel Hill 968-4501 Solid Waste /nterloca/ Agreement Durham 688-7331 (under separate cover) Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To discuss the contents of cultural resource and biological resources surveys of the Greene Tract, and other related matters. BACKGROUND: In September 1999, Orange County and the Towns of Carrboro and Chapel Hill approved an interlocal agreement governing the future of solid waste management in Orange County. Under the agreement (a copy of which is provided under separate cover), the County is to assume overall responsibility for operation and planning of Countywide solid waste management programs and policies. Among the provisions of the agreement are those that require, prior to County assumption of responsibility: 1) a rezoning of a 60 acre portion of the Greene Tract to make permissible certain solid waste management uses; and 2) agreement among the owners of the Greene Tract (the County and the two Towns) as to which 60 acres will be titled over to the County. In Fall 1999, the Board directed staff to commission two surveys of the Greene Tract to provide information that would be considered in deciding upon which 60 acres of the 169 acre parcel would be transferred to the County. The firm of TRC Garrow Associates was selected to conduct a cultural and archaeological survey of the property to locate and evaluate the extent and significance of any cultural resources on the tract that could be affected by future development. The final report from the consultant is provided as a separate cover attachment to this abstract. The firm of Robert J. Goldstein and Associates was retained to document significant natural resources on or adjacent to the Greene Tract that could be affected by future development. That work has not been completed, but an interim report from the consultant is provided as a separate cover attachment. The Board may also find helpful a summary of the significant findings of the two surveys to this point, as prepared by staff of the Environment and Resource Conservation Department.