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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: August 18, 2009 Action Agenda Item No. ~_ SUBJECT: Rogers Road Area: Cross-Reference of Town and Count Task Force Reports DEPARTMENT: County Manager's Office PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No Planning and Inspections ATTACHMENTS: 1. Matrix of Recommendations 2. Composite Map 3. Historical Review of County Investment in the Expansion of Water Service for the Rogers Road Neighborhood INFORMATION CONTACT: Gwen Harvey, Assistant County Manager, 245-2300 Craig N. Benedict, Planning Director, 245-2592 Perdita Holtz, Senior Planner, 245-2611 Tara Fikes, H & CD Director, 245-2492 PURPOSE: To receive a report from staff representing across-reference of recommendations contained within the reports from the Town of Chapel Hill Small Area Plan Task Force and the County Historic Rogers Road Community Enhancement Plan Task Force and related historical background BACKGROUND: Convergence of Two Task Force Reports The Rogers Road Small Area Plan Task Force was a planning effort initiated by the Town of Chapel Hill in December 2006 and completed in early 2009. The Town Report concluded additional transportation access and the provision of sanitary sewer were needed to improve the infrastructure of existing residents and for the orderly development of the Greene Tract. The Final Report was discussed at the March 26, 2009 Assembly of Governments meeting, including consensus for creating an intergovernmental work group of elected officials and staff to work aggressively to achieve needed financing for community improvements. In 2007 the BOCC engaged in a parallel planning effort known as the "Historic Roger's Road Community Enhancement Plan Development and Monitoring Task Force" which overlapped on the Town planning area. In the final Meeting Summary Report of the County Task Force, it was stressed that "final decisions regarding enhancements would not happen until the final decision of the solid waste transfer station was made". It was also recognized that many of the items on the list would require collaboration with the Towns and that actual financing of enhancements was not the purpose of the Task Force. A Final Report and recommendations from the County Task Force was received by the BOCC as information in December 2008.