HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES-2003-063 Resolution Accepting Conservation Easement Conveyance - Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hil~~
ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
RESOLUTION FOR THE ACCEPTING A CONSERVATION
EASEMENT TO PROTECT NEW HOPE CREEK CORRIDOR
(TRINITY SCHOOL PROPERTY)
WHEREAS, two of the primary goals of the Orange County Lands Legacy
program, established by the Board of County Commissioners in April 2000, is
the protection of identified wildlife corridors and riparian. buffers in water
supply watersheds, .and
WHEREAS, Triangle Land Conservancy (TLC), a private non-profit land trust
with like conservation goals, is working with Orange County to acquire riparian
lands and conservation easements for an open space corridor along New Hope
Creek from Erwin Road to the Durham County line, and
WHEREAS, protecting these riparian lands will preserve an identified wildlife
corridor and provide an opportunity for developing a public trail linking
sections of New Hope Creek in Duke Forest (Korstian Division) with public
lands in Durham County, and
WHEREAS, completing said trail corridor will help implement the New Hope
Creek Corridor Master Plan, adopted by Orange County, Durham County, the
City of Durham and the Town of Chapel Hill in 1989, and
WHEREAS, TLC has agreed with the Trinity School of Durham and Chapel
Hill on the purchase of a conservation easement to protect approximately 14.86
acres of a property that Trinity School owns adjacent to New Hope Creek, and
WHEREAS, TLC and the County have agreed that TLC will convey the
conservation easement to Orange County, and
WHEREAS, Orange County and TLC and the Trinity School have generally
agreed on the language of said conservation easement to be purchased by TLC
and conveyed to the County, and
WHEREAS, the joint acquisition of this property is exemplary of the County's
ongoing collaboration and partnership with Triangle Land Conservancy and
other conservation organizations;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Orange County Board of
Commissioners agrees to the accept the conveyance of a conservation easement
from Triangle Land Conservancy on approximately 14.86 acres of land owned
by the Trinity School, to be executed at a formal closing on the property.
This, the 16~` day of September, 2003
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Marg e W. Brown, Chair
Orang ounty Board of Commissioners
ATTEST
Donna Baker, Clerk to the Board