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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 22, 1999 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 3. <br />SUBJECT: Criteria for Parkland Acquisitions <br />DEPARTMENT: Environment and Resource PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Conservation <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Proposed Criteria from "A Lands Legacy David Stancil, 245-2590 <br />Program for Orange County" <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane. 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider proposed criteria for evaluating land acquisitions for parkland, as <br />developed by the Joint Master Recreation and Parks Work Group and included in the draft <br />program "A Lands Legacy Program for Orange County." <br />BACKGROUND: As a part of their report in May of this year, the Joint Master Recreation and <br />Parks Work Group developed a set of goals, objectives and criteria for evaluating parkland <br />acquisition opportunities. The criteria from this report has been included in the first draft of "A <br />Lands Legacy Program for Orange County", as reviewed at the BOCC's October 12 <br />worksession, with the intent of using this criteria as the basis for evaluating proposals for <br />acquiring parkland. <br />The proposed criteria are attached. If this criteria package is acceptable, it will be incorporated <br />into the next Lands Legacy draft and can be used to evaluate proposals that are require <br />evaluation prior to the program's adoption. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: No direct financial impacts result from the use of the proposed criteria, <br />although the criteria would determine where County funds are expended for parklands. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board revise the proposed <br />criteria and agree to use this to evaluate parkland proposals on an interim basis until the Lands <br />Legacy program is adopted. <br />