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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: January 15, 2008 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~-- -Z <br />SUBJECT: Alamance County/Orange County Boundary Line Resolution <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager/County PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Attorney/Tax Assessor (Land <br />Records) <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Proposed Resolution <br />12/17/07 Alamance BOCC Resolution re: <br />Resurvey of Orange-Alamance Line <br />Orange-Alamance Boundary Site <br />Reference List INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />NC Geodetic Survey Process Geof Gledhill, 919-732-2196 <br />12/11/07 Alamance BOCC Resolution re: Steve Averett, 919-245-2500 <br />Resurvey of Alamance-Guilford Line <br />12/13/07 Guilford BOCC Resolution re: <br />Resurvey of Alamance-Guilford Line <br />Map Showing Sample Area Highlighting <br />County Line Boundary Discrepancies <br />PURPOSE: To consider adoption of a resolution that, in conjunction with a similar resolution of <br />the Alamance County Board of Commissioners, will petition the State of North Carolina to <br />conduct a resurvey of the ambiguous boundary line between Orange County and Alamance <br />County. <br />BACKGROUND: The boundary line that separates Orange County from Alamance County <br />was established as the result of an 1849 survey commissioned by the North Carolina General <br />Assembly. The description of that boundary relies on numerous geographical and landmark <br />references that either no longer exist or, because of their lack of precision, are no longer <br />particularly useful in accurately defining the county line. <br />Since 1996, the Orange County Board of Commissioners and staff have on a number' of <br />occasions engaged the Alamance County Board of Commissioners and staff regarding the <br />desirability of clearly resolving the physical location of the Orange-Alamance line. Those <br />initiatives have now led to the definitive resolution of the problem presented here. With the <br />ever-increasing pattern of residential and commercial development of land in the vicinity of the <br />Orange-Alamance boundary, the necessity of resolving the different depictions that Orange <br />County and Alamance County use for the location of the boundary is becoming increasingly <br />pressing. <br />Alamance County and Guilford County also have had to deal with issues that have arisen as a <br />consequence of the uncertainty of the boundary line between them. In December 2007, the <br />Boards of Commissioners in both those counties adopted resolutions petitioning the State of <br />