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<br />(~ <br />1~es ~ov~~~~ <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS 5 G <br />A RESOLUTION TO REQUIRE DEVELOPERS OF THE VILLAGES AT <br />MEADOWVIEW OR"ANY DEVELOPERS OF THAT PARCEL, TO DEDICATE <br />RIGHT-OF-WAY AND PROVIDE FUNDS FOR A PORTION OF THE FUTURE <br />CONSTRUCTION OF THE REALIGNMENT OF ENO MOUNTAIN ROAD SO THAT IT <br />ALIGNS WITH MAYO STREET AT THEIR INTERSECTION WITH ORANGE GROVE <br />ROAD <br />WHEREAS, Orange County supports development and maintenance of an efficient <br />transportation network that provides access between neighborhoods and the goods and <br />services demanded by County residents; and <br />WHEREAS, Orange County actively participates in cooperative planning with the Town <br />of Hillsborough to coordinate development in areas of common interest in and around <br />the Town's Extraterritorial Planning Jurisdiction; and <br />WHEREAS, Orange County and the Town of Hillsborough have worked together to <br />establish common planning guidelines in the Hillsborough Area Economic Development <br />District that include consideration of needed transportation improvements, including but <br />not limited to, turn lanes, road widening, sidewalks, drainage; and <br />WHEREAS, Orange County recognized the need for alternative north-south routes <br />through/around the Town of Hillsborough to alleviate traffic and congestion on Churton <br />Street and the associated detriment to the Hillsborough Historic District; and <br />WHEREAS, Orange County and the Town of Hillsborough have submitted coordinated <br />Transportation Improvement Program Priority Lists to the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro <br />Metropolitan Planning Organization and the North Carolina Department of <br />Transportation that include the Elizabeth Brady Road Extension as an eastern route <br />around downtown Hillsborough to reduce traffic and congestion on Churton Street; and <br />WHEREAS, Orange County and the Town of Hillsborough have cooperated in <br />developing the Orange Grove Road Access Management Awareness Project and <br />Report and have endorsed recommendations to manage transportation in the Orange <br />Grove Road corridor; and <br />WHEREAS, North Carolina Department of Transportation has recognized the need for <br />access management improvements in the Orange Grove Road corridor through <br />participation in the Joint Orange Grove Road Transportation Work Group and funding <br />improvements to Orange Grove Road with NC Moving Ahead! funds; and <br />WHEREAS, that the Orange Grove Road Access Management Awareness Project and <br />Report, Phase II Orange County Case Study, III. Road Connectivity, recommends that <br />"the Town pursue the realignment of Eno Mountain Road to align with the intersection of <br />Mayo Street at Orange Grove Road to resolve traffic conflicts caused by the close <br />proximity of the intersections of two urban major thoroughfares with another major <br />urban thoroughfare", and <br /> <br />