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2 <br /> Attachment 2, "Site Maps & Photographs for Properties along N.C.54 between Hatch <br /> Road & Carrie Road" shows the location of these properties. The site is approximately <br /> 1 '/2 miles west of the N.C. 54 and Fayetteville Road intersection near MacDougle <br /> Middle School. <br /> Carrboro has also asked if funding to extend water to these locations can come from the <br /> recently enacted one-quarter ('/4) cent sales tax proceeds to support economic <br /> development, although specific cost estimates for utility extensions to the sites are not <br /> known at this time. <br /> The current Carrboro zoning classification for the properties along NC 54 West is <br /> designated as "WM3", which currently allows for commercial and light manufacturing. <br /> The properties are in Carrboro's ETJ, and the middle property, a warehouse located at <br /> #616, is also inside Carrboro's town limits. Property # 626 and #630, which includes a <br /> concrete pad and adjacent land available for development, was previously the location <br /> of the Saffelle, Inc. janitorial cleaning supplies firm, which burned in a fire in 2004. <br /> (Saffelle has since relocated to Hillsborough). Property#616 is adjacent, and includes a <br /> 22,000 square foot warehouse/light assembly facility that was constructed in 1980. <br /> Finally, Property#610 is a smaller warehouse/light assembly building. <br /> These properties currently have well and septic service and have never before been <br /> served by Orange Water & Sewer Authority (OWASA), although OWASA water and <br /> sewer lines run adjacent along NC 54. In addition, OWASA reports that these <br /> properties at 610, 616, 626 and 630 NC 54 West are all located within the University <br /> Lake watershed, and that OWASA's current utility extension policy "will not permit the <br /> extension of water and sewer facilities and services under its control, or connections <br /> thereto in the University Lake watershed, except on a site by site basis". <br /> In a teleconference with County and Town economic development staff on October 1, <br /> 2012, OWASA Director of Engineering & Planning Mason Crum recommended that <br /> Carrboro's engineer should determine what would be required in order to provide the <br /> necessary (a) pressure and (b) volume of water flow to yield acceptable sprinkler fire <br /> suppression, due to uncertainty about the existing water line's pressure along NC 54 to <br /> support sprinklers. Once the additional information on fire suppression requirements is <br /> determined, an estimate of the cost to provide water to these parcels can be provided. <br /> Also, Mr. Crum shared that if the Orange County Board of Commissioners and Town of <br /> Carrboro Aldermen desire to pursue water infrastructure to these sites, given OWASA's <br /> existing policy to limit water/sewer lines or connections in the University Lake <br /> watershed, he would present the matter to the OWASA Board of Directors for <br /> consideration. <br /> FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no financial impact associated with discussing this item. <br /> RECOMMENDATION(S): The County Manager recommends that the two governing Boards <br /> receive and discuss the information on 1) collaboration opportunities between economic <br /> development entities, and 2) the water and sewer issues along Highway 54 West, and provide <br /> feedback as needed. Detailed analysis would be required to determine the potential <br /> development opportunities along this section of Highway 54 if utilities were extended and land <br /> use considerations needed to support such decisions. <br />