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. Draft 10/8/99 <br />P14RT ,2. SU1~IJ~I~RY OF RESOURCES AND <br />PRIORITIES <br />II. Summary of Existing Inventories and Available <br />Knowledge <br />In order to .provide a benchmark a total of 730 acres of land <br />for along-term acquisition (0.3%, or less than three-tenths <br />program, it is first necessary to of one percent of the County .land <br />examine what we already. know area). This includes all land, <br />° about the County and it's natural whether for County offices, .parks, <br />and cultural .resources. The water .bodies, street rights of <br />following. sub-sections provide. a way, vacant land, or solid waste <br />thumbnail synopsis of some of sites. <br />,the important existing.-data <br />sources. The vast. majority of the 730 <br /> acres are in small parcels <br />These sources begin to sharpen <br />- scattered across the County. <br />the picture of County resources County-owned and affiliated <br />into focus. For brevity, the office buildings and parking lots <br />documents referred to are not account for 100 acres, with an <br />included in this document,-but additional 11 acres in streets or <br />-are available at the. ERCD for rights-of way reserved for future <br />perusal and further review. subdivision streets. <br />Excerpts from many: reports are <br />included as appendices. There are 31 scattered parcels <br /> comprising 244 acres that are <br />A. Inventory of Existing County-owned lots in subdivisions <br />County-Owned Lands (open space or vacant lots). <br /> However, two-thirds of these <br />Orange County contains 400 contain less than two acres each. <br />square miles or 256,000 acres <br />within its boundaries. Despite the - Water bodies and lands at future <br />County's 200 years of existence reservoir sites (Lake Orange, and <br />as a local government, the Seven-Mile Creek lands, <br />County itself owns .very little land. respectively) total 278 acres.. This <br /> also includes a small parcel in <br />As a part of this report, a Mebane with a water tower. A <br />complete inventory of County- total of 95 acres are held fora <br />. owned lands was conducted by parks or were dedicated for <br />ERCD staff in the. summer of recreation purposes. <br />1999. The County currently owns <br />5 <br />