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APPROVED 05120/2003 MINUTES <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />Regular Meeting <br />April 1, 2003 <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 <br />at 7:30 p.m. in the F. Gordon Battle Courtroom in Hillsborough, North Carolina. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Margaret W. Brown, Moses Carey, Jr., Alice M. <br />Gordon, Stephen Halkiotis, and Barry Jacobs <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: none <br />COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill and S. Sean Borhanian <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant County Managers <br />Rod Visser and Gwen Harvey and Clerk to the Board Donna S. Baker {All other staff members <br />will be identified appropriately below) <br />1. ADDITIONS OR CHANGES TO THE AGENDA <br />Commissioner Gordon added a correction sheet for the minutes -item 8-a. <br />PUBLIC CHARGE <br />The Chair dispensed with the reading of the entire public charge. She read <br />the following: The Board of Commissioners pledges to the citizens of Orange <br />County its respect and the Board asks its citizens to conduct themselves in a <br />respectful, courteous manner, both with the Board and with fellow citizens. <br />2. PUBLIC COMMENTS <br />a. Matters not on the Printed Aaenda <br />Penny Spence Flake lives on Maple Avenue in Aberdeen Downs subdivision in <br />Efland. She has lived here for 15 years. There are two roads that make a loop in their <br />subdivision, which are Maple Avenue and Poplar Drive. Both roads exit out onto High Rock <br />Road. On or about the second week of March, they received a letter from the Orange County <br />Land Records and the Efland postmaster advising all residents in the subdivision that they <br />would like to change the names of the road to make it one loop. They did not have a problem <br />with this, but they did have a problem with all three names that were submitted to them to <br />choose from -Dean Loop, Hurley Loop, and Bedrock Loop. The residents got together and <br />decided to name the road after Mr. Ralph Edwards, wha died of cancer last year. He was a <br />pillar of the community. She submitted a petition to change the name of the road to Ralph <br />Edwards Loap Road to the postmaster in Efland and Orange County Land Records, and they <br />were denied right away. They were told that there were too many roads beginning with Ralph <br />and too many roads beginning with Edwards throughout Orange County. They did an Internet <br />search and they found that there are approximately 16 roads in Orange County that contain the <br />word Meadow, 32 roads that contain the word Oak, and 64 roads that contain the word Old. It <br />was her understanding that the 911 service was the reasoning behind the name being turned <br />down because of the familiarity of the names and it would cause confusion. She said that all of <br />the roads with Ralph or Edwards are in Chapel Hill, with the exception of two. There are none <br />in the Cheeks Township area. There is one in Cedar Grove, which is called Ralph Dead End <br />