The RDUAA has scheduled a Special Board Meeting regarding the future of Lake Crabtree County Park (LCCP) for Wednesday, January 29, 2025 starting at 5pm.

At this meeting, public input will be solicited for development ideas and RESTRICTIONS/LIMITATIONS for 136 acres of land now in forested mountain bike and pedestrian trails. RDUAA is proposing allow private commercial development of this tract into some sort of "recreational development' which includes hotel, restaurant(s), retail, similar. Due to a confidentially agreement, the public is not being told what the (also unnamed) developer proposes -- a lack of transparency!

We are confident the public will have a lot to say about the proposal to convert one of the most popular features (forested bike/ped trails) of one of the County's most popular parks into some sort commercial development. The Umstead Coalition will be suggesting a revisit of the land use Master Plan for the RDU Airport - instead of dismantling our public lands track by track without a strategic plan or extensive community input and evaluation (and transparency).

We should note, Lake Crabtree County Park is exceedingly popular, a true community asset and connected to William B. Umstead State Park, East Coast Greenway, US1 Bikeway, Black Creek Greenway, American Tobacco Trail, and more.

We join others in the community to ask Wake County purchase the these lands.

Meeting details can be found at this link:

https://www.rdu.com/airport-authority/meetings/