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------- .. --.- _...~.--__.___ _ _---- _. _._....~ ~_~3 <br />Commissioner Melvin Whitfield inauired as to Whether any of the allocated <br />monies would be spent in correcting the hazzards that existed on the unpaved <br />roads of the county. Mr. Adams advised the Soard that no monies had been <br />allocated for improving the unpaved roads. That the priority listing dealt <br />solely with paving, however, ha did recommend that the County might consider <br />spending some of its allocation an improving some of the unpaved roads rather <br />than spending all of its allocation on paving. Discussion ensued. <br />Mr. Adams advised the Board that a.definite change 3.n the General Statutes <br />dealt with the abandonment of roads and that the Soard of Transportation can <br />now abandon any road that it ahoosea to abandon. He assured the Board of <br />Commissioners that abandonment of roads would not affect homeowners, but would <br />be roads that were generally located in rural areas. A list of proposed roads <br />that will be abandoned will be submitted to the Soard of Commissioners. A <br />resolution for abandonment will be transmitted from the Board of Transportation <br />to the Board of CoAanissiorera. If the Board of Commissioners disagree with the <br />proposed abandonment then they may request the Board of Transportation to conduct <br />a new investigation of the matter. Property owners on the proposed abandoned <br />roads will be given a sixty (60) day notice and they must during this sixty (60) <br />days file any protest they have relative to the abandonment. The Board of <br />Trana~ortation can abandon a road without the consent of the Board .of Commissioners. <br />Mr. Adams stated no new subdivision streets will be accepted for paving <br />after November 1, 1973, the exceptions be3.ng that the streets moat be paved and <br />if a plat of the streets have been or if a prelim3.narp plat hea been approved by <br />a Planning Board prior to the cut off date. He pointed out that the Board of. <br />Transportation will continue its participating paving paliay at $2.00 per running <br />square feot for each side of a proposed street. He stated that rio funds could <br />be spent before late 1974 due to the fact that the work program in Drange County <br />had been scheduled through late 1974. <br />There being no further business to come before the Board the meeting was <br />adjourned. <br />C. Norman Walker, Chairman <br />5. M. Gato s, Acting Clerk <br />Betty June Hayes, Clerk <br />