Piedmont Greenway Master Plan - Town of Kernersville

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Estimate of Probable Trail Maintenance and Management Costs The consultant recommends that the cities, towns and counties adopt a clear and concise maintenance and management program for the Piedmont Greenway. The primary objective of this maintenance and management plan is to assure that the public's health and safety are protected during normal use of the greenway. The greenway should be classified as a linear park and should be maintained in a clean, safe and usable condition like all other parks within the city. Greenway lands should be maintained in a natural condition to the largest extent possible so that they may fulfill multiple functions including passive recreation, alternative transportation, stormwater management, environmental and historical interpretation and plant and wildlife habitat protection. The cities, towns and counties can administer an Adopt-a-Greenway Program, or it can be administered by creating a Piedmont Greenway Alliance. The city, town and county staffs are best able to coordinate the activities of local volunteers providing equipment and materials to support management and maintenance activities. An Adopt-a-Greenway Program will create positive public relations for the cities, towns and counties for the greenway. The program offers a way to bring local residents out to the greenway and enables them to participate in meaningful community activities. An Adopt-a-Greenway Program is a proven method of achieving a clean and safe greenway. Long-term maintenance of the fully built Piedmont Greenway will require a consistent source of annual funds. Based on the experience of the consultant with similar projects in other communities, the following maintenance costs are provided for the fully built (primary trail only) Piedmont Greenway in tax year 2001 dollars. It is important to bear in mind that it may take several years for the greenway to reach a fully built condition. Description of Activity Annual Costs Drainage and storm channel maintenance (4 x per year) $ 6,800.00 Sweeping /blowing debris from trail tread (24 x per year) $15,600.00 Pick-up and removal of trash and debris (24 x per year) $15,600.00 Weed control and vegetation management (10 x per year) $ 6,500.00 Mow 3-foot grass safe-zone along trail edge (24 x per year) $16,000.00 Minor repairs to trail furniture/safety features (as needed)* $ 5,000.00 Park Ranger Patrol (Part-time employee) $15,000.00 Supplies for labor force $ 4,000.00 Equipment fuel, repairs and replacement parts $10,000.00 Grand Total Operation and Maintenance Costs $94,500.00 Cost per mile (divided by 18.9) $ 5,000.00 * may increase as project ages PIEDMONT GREENWAY Final Master Plan Report 68
Estimate of Probable Land Acquisition Costs Land Ownership Inventory Greenways, Inc. has completed a comprehensive land ownership inventory of the entire Forsyth County Piedmont Greenway corridor. The Guilford County parcel information is missing from this report because the County and the City of Greensboro will not release the information. Information that was obtained came from the Forsyth County Geo-Data web-site, and Winston-Salem/Forsyth County GIS and Planning Department data sets. The goal of identifying every parcel of land along both sides of the greenway corridor and spur trails was not met due to the lack of information available from Guilford County. The research should be updated to reflect recent real estate transactions involving portions of the greenway corridor not yet included in tax records. It should be noted that city and county tax records are far from complete and, in some cases, may be out of date. In several instances, identification of owners of land in the greenway corridor was not possible. The ownership of the Piedmont Greenway corridor is highly fragmented. The corridor includes public, private and private nonprofit landowners. Information about the public-private land ownership pattern was used in developing the proposed greenway trail alignment in order to maximize to the greatest extent possible utilization of publicly owned land for the greenway, thereby minimizing the cost of the public acquisition of land or easements for the greenway. A large portion of the land base required for the Piedmont Greenway is currently in public or private ownership. As discussed elsewhere in the Master Plan report, there are three large segments of the greenway owned by various city and county municipal governments. Public landowners in the corridor include the city of Winston Salem, city of Greensboro, the counties of Forsyth and Guilford and Duke Power Company. Public acquisition of land in public or private nonprofit ownership is not included in the land acquisition cost estimate. However, although properties owned by these entities will not require public purchase for the greenway, land protection or management agreements must also be secured from public or private nonprofit landowners. In all, there are 148 individual parcels of privately/publicly owned land in the greenway corridor (by an undetermined number of owners). A list of landowners is not included in the Master Plan, but can be obtained from the planning departments of Forsyth and Guilford Counties. Some information may also be available from Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and Kernersville Land Acquisition Cost Estimate Based on the parcel depictions contained in tax maps, an approximate acreage for the greenway trail was calculated. As the entire parcel owned by each individual private landowner will not be required for the greenway, these acreage figures were reduced based on acquisition of a minimum 15-foot-wide easement (for an eight foot wide trail), in the urban Forsyth County section, and a 20-wide easement (for a ten foot wide trail) in the Guilford County section. Two alternatives trail segments were considered for the Forsyth Forsyth County Primary Trail Alignment 8 foot-wide trail 15 foot easement needed Guilford County Trail Alignment 10 foot-wide trail 20 foot easement needed Figure 45. Total Easement Acres County portion of the trail due to the pending high speed rail corridor that PART is studying. The first segment would follow the railway ROW, and an alternative trail would follow the southern side of West Mountain Street (see segments 1- 8, pages 29 - 43). Segment costs may be more or less depending on the final alignments and agreements with the landowners. Acreage for each parcel of private land over which the greenway will cross was then calculated using figures for linear front footage along the Piedmont Greenway. The total amount of land within the proposed primary greenway corridor is 3,423 acres, of this approximately 1,268 acres are in the Forsyth County section and 2,155 acres are in the Guilford County section. As an alternative, the total amount of land within the alternative trail alignment is 3, 619 acres, of this approximately 1,464 acres are in Forsyth County and 2,155 acres are in Guilford County. Land acquisition costs are based on estimates only and are qualified by several factors. First, land acquisition costs are based on estimates from other recent sales of similar properties in the area. Until a qualified appraisal is performed by an NC State certified appraiser, the “fair market value” of these properties Forsyth County Guilford County Primary Parcel Acres Figure 46. Total Parcel Acres 34 58 Total Easement Acres 92 Number of Parcels Alternative Parcel Acres Number of Parcels 1,268 74 1,464 250 2,155 72 2,155 72 Total 3,423 146 3,619 322 will not be known. Secondly, these acquisition cost estimates are based on estimated acreage figures. Although general acreage can be obtained from public records, until an official boundary survey of the corridor is made, exact acreage is unknown. These land acquisition cost estimates are also based on one further very important assumption: that the privately owned parcels to be acquired for the greenway are located within the 100-year floodplain of the creeks (where needed). Typically, property within the 100-year floodplain has a significantly reduced value due to the fact that the development potential of such property is highly limited. In many cases, properties within the 100-year floodplain of the various creeks may also contain jurisdictional wetlands, which greatly reduces the property’s development potential, and thus PIEDMONT GREENWAY Final Master Plan Report 69
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The Piedmont Greenway Master Plan L
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary
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LIST OF MAPS & FIGURES Figure 1: Re
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Piedmont Gree
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OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION Since the
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VISION, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES The fo
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BENEFITS OF GREENWAYS A multi-objec
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whether publicly or privately owned
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sensitive to erosion and need to be
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Mixed Hardwood Forest Ecosystem Sev
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mercial in some parts and open farm
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Page 25 and 26: main Piedmont Greenway trail along
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Page 29 and 30: • As an alternative, the south si
Page 31 and 32: Proposed Piedmont Greenway Alignmen
Page 33 and 34: Primary Piedmont Greenway Segments
Page 35 and 36: 39 Willow Bend Legend Deer Crossing
Page 37 and 38: Croyden Ches Legend Morris Primary
Page 39 and 40: Brittainywood Roberson Farm Valleyd
Page 41 and 42: Legend Roxbury Primary Greenway Tra
Page 43 and 44: Legend Primary Greenway Trail Road
Page 45 and 46: Old Orchard Woodfield Cathi Nickel
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Page 51 and 52: 0 Ira Main Chaucer Manor Clay Flynt
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Page 65 and 66: ADA Requirements The Americans with
Page 67 and 68: COST ESTIMATE FROM SALEM LAKE & LIN
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Page 79 and 80: PL 566-Watershed Protection and Flo
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Page 83 and 84: Greenway Facility Safety and Securi
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Page 87 and 88: landowner may still be sued but the
Page 89 and 90: NORTH CAROLINA TORT CLAIMS ACTS AND
Page 91 and 92: Supplemental Information ADDITIONAL
Page 93 and 94: THE WATERSHEDS OF FORSYTH AND GUILF
Page 95 and 96: By designating buffers within flood
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