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Uf9 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: November 24, 1997 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item # C 4(a) <br /> SUBJECT: Proposed Orange County Functional Road Classification Comprehensive Plan and <br /> Ordinance Amendments <br /> DEPARTMENT: Planning& Inspections PUBLIC H1E:ARING: _X—Yes No <br /> BUDGET AMENDMENT REQUIRED: Yes_X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Slade McCalip <br /> -Draft Ordinance and Comprehensive Plan Extension 2595 <br /> Amendments <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill -967-9251 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider draft ordinance and Comprehensive Plan Amendments for the update <br /> to the Functional Road Classifications of the Transportation Element of the <br /> Comprehensive Plan. <br /> BACKGROUND: On June 4, 1997 staff presented to the Planning Board a process and schedule for <br /> updating the Transportation Element of the Comprehensive Plan; included in this <br /> was an update to the road functional classifications. An amendment to update the <br /> functional classifications is necessary because the maps in the Transportation <br /> Element to the Comprehensive Plan depict planned roads that are not planned <br /> anymore; some of the current functional classifications are not referenced by other <br /> adopted plans and ordinances; and the existing classifications have been applied <br /> to every road in the county's land use plamiing jurisdiction outside the <br /> thoroughfare planning jurisdictions for the municipalities, making it difficult to <br /> clearly and quickly identify the most important roads and also applying urban <br /> road classifications to the roads in 45%of the county's land use planning area. <br /> As a part of the Functional Road Classification System update, the planned major <br /> thoroughfares adopted by Orange County municipalities (i.e., Hillsborough's <br /> Northside Drive\Western Bypass) which are outside of a municipality's land use <br /> planning jurisdiction will be presented for consideration and adoption by Orange <br /> County. In this way Orange County can classify tiie proposed thoroughfares and <br /> then protect the rights-of-way for those thoroughfares that are consistent with the <br /> County's Comprehensive Plan. <br />