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a ego ~9 mu DS RESOLUTION PASSED BY THE LEE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ON DECEMBER 16, 2002 WHEREAS open space provides critical benefits to Lee County residents including parks, g'reenways, historic and scenic landscapes, habitat for wildlife and native plants, water and air quality protection, and agricultural and timber products; and WHEREAS important open space will continue to be lost in the absence of comprehensive open. space planning; and WHEREAS continued loss of important open space is detrimental to the quality of life of Lee County residents; and WHEREAS the North Carolina General Assembly passed a law making it the State's goal to permanently protect an additional one million acres of open space (G.S. 113A-241); and WHEREAS Lee County is currently engaged in an Open Space Initiative: and WHEREAS the Triangle J Council of Governments, Triangle Land Conservancy, and N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation have formed the Triangle GreenPrint Project and have released a Regional Open Space Assessment; and WHEREAS the Regional Open Space Assessment documents important open space areas in the six-county Triangle region that were identified by 140 professional and citizen open space experts, and WHEREAS the Regional Open Space Assessment identifies many open space areas that can only be fully enjoyed by Lee County citizens if Lee County cooperates with other government jurisdictions to protect them; and WHEREAS the likelihood of protection of these open space areas will be enhanced through awareness of their significance and adoption of formal plans for their protection; and WHEREAS the Lee County Environmental Affairs Board and the Lee County Recreation Board adopted a resolution endorsing the Regional Open Space Assessment THEREFORE. BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE LEE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS: Recognizes the efforts of the 140 technical experts who provided their expertise to develop the Triangle GreenPrint Regional Open Space Assessment as an overview of Triangle open spaces that are worthy of some level of protection;