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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: September 5, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Recreation Site Dedication vs. Payment -in -Lieu in the Matter of Wilson Efland Minor <br />Subdivision <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1) Letter from Planning Department to Applicant <br />2) Property Map <br />3) Vicinity Map <br />4) Sections of Subdivision Regulations Pertaining to <br />Parkland Dedication and Payment -in -Lieu and Resource <br />Protection <br />5) 7 -12 -00 Planning Board Minutes <br />6) Resolution Requiring Park Land Dedication <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Jane Garrett, Planner I <br />EXT 2581 <br />Craig Benedict, Director <br />EXT 2592 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968 -4501 <br />Durham 688 -7331 <br />Mebane (336)227 -2031 <br />PURPOSE: Consideration of condition required by the Orange County Subdivision Regulations (Section <br />IV- B -7 -b) regarding Recreation Site Dedication for Minor Subdivision application. <br />Board of Commissioners action by Resolution on minor subdivision condition of approval.. <br />(See Attached) <br />BACKGROUND: <br />The following notes are background information: <br />• Recreation Site dedications have been in effect since 1986 pursuant to Section IV -13-7 -b of the <br />Subdivision Regulations. <br />+ Dedications of land for recreation or open space are not a new requirement, but have been seldom used <br />in practice over the last 8 years. Payment -in -Lieu has been widely used. <br />• 44 acres, ranging in size from .16 acre to 12.34 acres, have been acquired through subdivision land <br />dedications between 1987 and 1992. <br />• Bradford Ridge Subdivision (approved in Summer 1999) was the first in many years to make a land <br />dedication because staff is now linking resource corridors (e.g. Cane Creek to Eno River) which are part <br />of the Comprehensive Plan and implementing land dedications, 5 acres in the Bradford Ridge case. <br />• Recreation site dedications are widely used around NC and the rest of the US and have been found to be <br />legal in their usage. Orange County's regulations are stronger in many cases because of the <br />Comprehensive Plan land use support adopted in 1981. <br />