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2 <br /> • Public Hearings have now been completed to approve local financial incentives by the <br /> City of Mebane (October 7th) and Orange County (October 15t) <br /> • Site annexation and rezoning by the City of Mebane (November 4th) <br /> • Orange County's initial Public Hearing and Community Development Block Grant <br /> (CDBG) application process with the N.C. Department of Commerce is now underway to <br /> seek eventual reimbursement for 75% of costs (from the United States Department of <br /> Housing and Urban Development (HUD)) associated with extending water and sewer <br /> lines to the Morinaga site, and designing and engineering the 3,500 foot access road to <br /> be built by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT). <br /> • Sewer to the site will connect to the new backbone main sewer line that is currently <br /> under construction between Mattress Factory Road and Ben Wilson Road, which is part <br /> of the County's $4 million expenditure from the one-quarter (1/4) cent sales tax to fund <br /> infrastructure throughout the economic development districts. <br /> In addition, the County's and Mebane's leadership has had several recent opportunities to <br /> jointly host visiting Japanese officials from Morinaga, to include Masao Hoshino (President of <br /> Morinaga America, Inc.) on October 8th and 15 , and most recently, President Toru Arai <br /> (President of parent firm Morinaga & Co., Ltd., from Tokyo) on November 8 th <br /> OTHER JOINT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES <br /> The Orange County Economic Development office continues to market various properties within <br /> the Buckhorn Economic Development District, such as the Oakwood Business Center in <br /> Mebane, and the empty 51,400 square foot former Hancor manufacturing facility on U.S. 70 <br /> near Buckhorn Road, to other industrial investment prospects. These properties have been <br /> submitted to an increasing volume of new project inquiries originating from the North Carolina <br /> Department of Commerce, from the listing realtor, local developers and the Research Triangle <br /> Regional Partnership. The Orange County Economic Development office has a good dialog <br /> with the City Manager's office and staff in Mebane, and anticipates seeing additional prospect <br /> activity developing. Finally, increased effort is underway to prepare updated site maps and <br /> marketing materials, and identify new properties for development within Mebane's city limits and <br /> ETJ. <br /> Buckhorn Mebane Economic Development District (EDD) Utilities Phase 2 Infrastructure <br /> Update <br /> Buckhorn Mebane EDD Utilities Phase 2 is a $4 million dollar water and sewer project. Over 3 <br /> miles of 16" water main and over 3 miles of sewer gravity create `backbone' utility infrastructure <br /> that will serve a 1,000 acre economic development zone primarily south of the interstate. <br /> However, a new water system loop from Buckhorn and West Ten Roads to Washington Street <br /> also improves a large 500-acre zone north of the interstate within Mebane's extraterritorial <br /> jurisdiction (ETJ). <br /> Staff will provide any other information on these issues at the meeting, and the governing <br /> boards can discuss issues related to this item as necessary. <br /> Attachment 9 -Aerial Map and Proposed Infrastructure Map for Morinaga Facility <br />