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a On June 16 and August 30, 2011, the draft ordinance was presented to the BOCC at two separate work sessions. The BOCC provided feedback that was incorporated into the proposed ordinance. On November 15, 2011, the Board opened' a public hearing to receive feedback from the public regarding the ordinance. There were no comments from the public. However, Board members did discuss the proposed Ordinance and provided several comments to staff. • Commissioner Alice Gordon conveyed concern about the appeals process and stated that appeals should be able to be made to the BOCC. Discussion among the Board members indicated the Board generally believed the appeals process, as outlined in the proposed ordinance, was acceptable. • Commissioner Gordon also indicated a concern regarding the number of times an address could be changed. • Commissioner Steve Yuhasz recommended the ordinance be more precise regarding the style of the sign for public drives, recommending the background color be blue. • Several Board members requested a more detailed explanation of the notice of violation delivery process. The County Attorney also informed the Board that the proposed Ordinance would need to be formatted and renumbered to correspond to the numbering system of the Code of Ordinances. (The Ordinance has since been renumbered to correspond with the Code of Ordinances format and is provided as Attachment 3. The Ordinance version as previously formatted is also included as Attachment 1 for reference purposes.) The County Attorney also noted that the County's existing building and building regulations provisions would need to be repealed if the proposed new ordinance was adopted. (The County Attorney has since determined that rather than repealing the current provisions (Attachment 4), the Board would actually amend it with the new Addressing and Road Naming Ordinance provisions.) The Board continued the public hearing to the December 5, 2011 regular meeting. At that meeting, two members of the public spoke. The first speaker asked how many deaths had been caused due to the lack of an enforceable ordinance. Staff responded that those numbers were not available. The second speaker questioned the cost to implement the ordinance. Staff referenced the initial presentation slide that outlined the cost, and the speaker realized he had understood the slide incorrectly and withdrew his question. Following the public hearing, several other items were addressed. • Commissioner Gordon asked for an explanation of the axis that creates the addressing grid. Staff has provided a map at Attachment 5 titled "Addressing Grid Axis" to help explain the axis. • Commissioner Yuhasz asked if the ordinance would be changed to specifically state the color of road signs for private drives. Steve Averett, the County's GIS Manager, explained that the United States Department of Transportation Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) (referenced in the ordinance) specifies that signs for private drives can be either blue or green. • John Roberts explained that the new ordinance would become effective on the date of adoption (presumably December 13, 2011), except for the sections regarding penalties for non - compliance, which will become effective January 1, 2013. It is expected the Ordinance will affect less than 10% (2,000 out of almost 23,000) of the addresses and less than 5% (100 out of almost 2,000) of the streets in Orange County's jurisdiction. The biggest impact will be to private unnamed drives that have three or more addresses. These drives will be required to be named and residents will be required to change their addresses to the new drive.