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WHEREAS, the terminus of"Option 7" at Snow Hill Road and Roxboro Road (US 501) is <br /> on approximately the same alignment as the "Northern Freeway" proposed in the 1989 <br /> Draft DCHC Thoroughfare Plan; and <br /> WHEREAS, the general path of the "Northern Freeway" paralleled Mason Road and St. <br /> Mary's Road in Durham County; entered Orange County immediately south of Ebenezer <br /> Church Road; ran southward between Pleasant Green Road and the Durham County <br /> line until it intersected Cole Mill Road; and then ran southwesterly crossing Pleasant <br /> Green Road, the Eno River, US 70, 1-85, Old NC 10, and "New" NC 86 before <br /> interchanging with 1-40; and <br /> WHEREAS, the "Northern Freeway" is depicted on the map labeled Attachment B; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Commissioners strongly opposed the <br /> "Northern Freeway" in 1989 because of its potential impacts on prime forest land, the <br /> Eno River State Park, the Eno River, existing neighborhoods, and the Rural Buffer; and <br /> WHEREAS, "Option 7" provides the opportunity through its proposed alignment and <br /> terminus to correspond to a future loop or freeway into Orange County along the Mason <br /> Road/St. Mary's Road corridor attendant with the aforementioned impacts; and <br /> WHEREAS, the hallmark of sound planning is careful and deliberate consideration of <br /> proposals through a process involving all interested parties, rather than the sort of last- <br /> minute rush to judgment embodied in the inclusion of an inadequately studied and <br /> discussed "Option 7"; <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Orange County Board of Commissioners <br /> that the Board of Commissioners recommends to the Transportation Advisory <br /> Committee that "Option 7" be deleted from consideration as a recommendation in the <br /> 2025 Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization Long-Range <br /> Transportation Plan. <br /> This, the 30`h day of October 2002. <br /> VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> A motion was made by Commissioner Halkiotis, seconded by Commissioner <br /> Carey to approve and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution A as stated below: <br /> A Resolution to Provide the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro <br /> Transportation Advisory Committee <br /> With a Recommendation on the Preferred Option of the <br /> Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Long-Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) <br /> (LRTP Resolution A) <br /> WHEREAS, Orange County has participated in regional transportation planning as a <br /> member of the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Transportation Advisory Committee is <br /> preparing a Long-Range Transportation Plan, and has released the Preferred Option of <br /> the DCHC Long-Range Transportation Plan for public comment; and <br />