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Draft 10/8/99 <br />Table 2 <br />Public/Institutionally-Owned <br />~.anas ~n vran a c <br />-Duke University ;oun <br />4,933 acres <br />OWASA 3,215 acres <br />UNC 2,585 acres <br />Eno River State Pazk 1,973 acres <br />(in Orange) <br />Town of Chapel Hill 1,077 acres <br />Town of Carrboro 144 acres <br />Town of <br />Hillsborough 2,801 acres <br />t'=~~~:;=~1~~ CL111LItYN;: ~„~< ~~.,~ , a'373~:~dCTeS~` <br />Among municipal jurisdictions, <br />when considered in proportion to <br />corporate limits the .Town of <br />Chapel Hill owns 9.1% of the <br />area inside its Town limits. Much <br />of the Town of Hillsborough land <br />holdings are recent acquisitions <br />for the West Fork reservoir, and <br />are outside of the Town <br />corporate limits. The Town's total <br />acreage owned equates to <br />owning 90 percent of the Town <br />Limits. Carrboro's landholdings <br />are considerably less - 144 acres, <br />.corresponding to 5.2% of the <br />Town Limits. Orange County <br />owns the smallest percentage of <br />the land within its own <br />boundaries - at the <br />aforementioned 0.3%. <br />C. Inventory of Natural Areas <br />and Wildlife Habitats, Orange <br />County, NC .(Triangle Land <br />Conservancy, 1988) <br />This inventory, funded by Orange <br />County and a grant from the N.C. <br />Natural Heritage Program, was <br />developed by Triangle Land <br />Conservancy. Authored by Steve <br />Hall and Dawson Sather, the <br />.Inventory is the most-widely used. <br />and recognized assessment of <br />the County's resources. Many of <br />the findings of the Inventory <br />have been incorporated into the <br />Land Use.Element of the <br />Comprehensive Plan and.the <br />Flexible Development section of <br />the Subdivision Regulations. -The <br />inventory identified 64 sites of <br />importance in the County, <br />identified by basin and ranked in <br />terms of significance and threat. <br />The Inventory also proposed a <br />wildlife corridor network concept <br />that has also been incorporated <br />into County plans. <br />A map of the 64 sites is included <br />as Appendix C. <br />D. Inventory of Sites of <br />Cultural, Historic, <br />Recreational, Biological and- <br />Geological Significance. in the <br />Unincorporated Portions of <br />Orange County (Orange <br />County. Planning Department, <br />May 1986 and May 1988) <br />This inventory was created as an <br />intern project in 1985 and was <br />completed and received by the <br />Board of Commissioners in 1986. <br />The survey documents, with brief <br />narrative and map location, sites <br />,such as churches, cemeteries, <br />archaeological sites, wildlife <br />Genew areas and endangered <br />plant/animal sites (as per a 1975 <br />product of the NC Museum of <br />7 <br />