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6 <br />4. Establishment of interdepartmental infrastructure to insure continued operation of <br />addressing system to meet the spirit and the intent of this ordinance; <br />5. Notification to appropriate citizens, governments, agencies, and post offices as <br />required by law; and <br />B. Clerical or Administrative Errors. The Address Administrator is authorized to correct <br />such clerical or administrative errors that may from time to tune occur in keeping with <br />the overall plan and the intent of this ordinance and to appro~-elternate methods of <br />displaying house numbers which meet the intent of this c,rdinance when strict adherence <br />to these standards cannot be reasonable met. <br />ARTICLE IV ROAD NAMING <br />Roads located within the unincorporated areas of Orange County, whether public and private, <br />shall not be named or renamed by any method except those set forth in this Article. :'111 existing, <br />proposed, or constructed public or private roads or driveways that provides, or will provide, <br />access to two (2) or more habitable structures that are more than seventy-five feet from the main <br />road shall have a street name assigned. <br />A. Road Names <br />1. New Road Names. <br />a. No new public or private road shall be named without approval of the <br />Address Administrator. <br />b. The name of any new road, whether it is public or private, shall not <br />duplicate or be phonetically similar to any other road already named <br />~~-thin Orange County. This subsection shall not apply to the extension of <br />existing roads, which should whenever possible be given the same name. <br />c. New subdivision roads, whether public or private, shall be named prior to <br />the zppi•oval of any proposed subdivision or plat. <br />2. Renanliu~ lZoads. <br />a. Renaming by Address Administrator. Road names may be changed by the <br />Address Administrator when the road name is a duplicate of another road <br />name within a designated postal area or within Orange County and <br />interferes with the accurate dispatch of emergency service or postal <br />delivery. In addition, a road name may be changed when one road has two <br />commonly used names or where portions of what appears to be the same <br />road has two or more names. <br />Draft Road Naming and Addressing Ordinance <br />June 6, 2011 <br />