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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> �=E <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Item No <br /> Meeting Date: February 5, 1996 <br /> SUBJECT: Process for Resolving Orange-Alamance County Boundary Line <br /> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- <br /> DEPARTMENT County Manager/Land Records PUBLIC HEARING YES NO x <br /> ------------------------------- <br /> BUDGET AMENDMENT <br /> REQUIRED YES NO x <br /> -------------------------------- ------------------------------- <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) INFORMATION CONTACT <br /> 2/6/95 Orange County Mgr Letter Rod Visser, ext 2300 <br /> 2/10/95 Alamance County Mgr Letter Roscoe Reeve, ext 2500 <br /> 1849 Boundary Description TELEPHONE NUMBER <br /> Map Reflecting Differing Interpretations Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> of Orange-Alamance Line (under Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> separate cover) Mebane 227-2031 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- <br /> PURPOSE: To consider a process for resolving the location of the <br /> Orange-Alamance County boundary. <br /> BACKGROUND: Over the years, Orange and Alamance Counties have had <br /> different interpretations of the physical location, on the ground, of <br /> the boundary line dividing the two counties. The tax assessors have <br /> had informal agreements that certain parcels straddling the line, and <br /> even some parcels that appear to be totally within one county, would be <br /> taxed in the other county when the landowner requested. <br /> As development intensifies along the county line, it becomes <br /> increasingly important to establish a well-defined boundary that is <br /> absolutely clear to property owners on both sides of the line . Last <br /> year, at the direction of the Board of Commissioners, the County <br /> Manager wrote to the Alamance County Manager requesting that <br /> representatives of both counties meet to work out a process to resolve <br /> the boundary. The Alamance County Manager wrote back to decline that <br /> request, indicating that Alamance plans to rely on an 1849 boundary <br /> description. It is Orange County staff ' s view that this description is <br /> ill-defined, impractical, and unacceptable given changes in technology <br /> and land use patterns. <br /> Last year, the Board sought the assistance of the Orange County <br /> legislative delegation to introduce special legislation that would <br /> permit a simplified, less costly alternative to current law for <br /> resolving the boundary disagreement . That process would involve the <br /> use of digital orthophotos, instead of surveying, as a basis for <br />