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RESOLUTION URGING DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION <br /> TO P!ECONSIDER ITS RATING SYSTEM FOR DEAD END ROADS <br /> WHEREAS, The Orange County Board of Commissioners met with representa- <br /> tives from the North Carolina Department of Transportation to <br /> review Orange County's proposed 1977-78 Secondard Road Improve- <br /> ment Program, and <br /> WHEREAS, At the said meeting with Department of Transportation Repre- <br /> sentatives, a review of the present policies was presented and <br /> the Board of Commissioners was informed of a=new policy of <br /> rating -dead-end roads, and <br /> WHEREAS, During this discussion, the Orange County Board of Commissioners <br /> again reiterated the need for the Department of Transportation <br /> to allow flexibility to property owners who live on roads which <br /> are partially rural in character and where property is owned by <br /> one individual, and where other areas of the same road are con- <br /> sidered a subdivision road, and thereby hindering property owners <br /> from :receiving road improvements through the owner participation <br /> program, and <br /> WHEREAS, The new policy for rating dead-end roads will result in a number <br /> of changes to the priority rating of roads in Orange County which <br /> will result in moving some Orange County. citizens, who have waited <br /> for years to be near the top of the priority list further down <br /> the list. <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Orange County Board of Commissioners <br /> goes on record this date as opposing the new policy for rating <br /> dead-end roads, and feels that monies used for improving dead-end <br /> roads could better be used for improvements to roads with through <br /> traffic access. <br /> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that- the Orange ,County Board of Commissioners request <br /> the Board of Transportation to review their present Policy for <br /> subdivision roads and to attempt to make said policy more pliant, <br /> especially those effecting the older subdivision roads. <br /> Duly Adopted this the 6th day of September, 1977. <br /> COUNTY OF ORANGE; <br /> STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA <br /> i I, Agatha Johnson, Clerk. to the Orange County Board of Commis- <br /> sioners, do hereby Certify that the foregoing is a true and <br /> accurate copy of a Portion of the minutes of the Orange County <br /> Board of Commissioners' meeting held on September 6, 1977. <br /> WITNESS my Hand and Seal of Office this the 8th day of September, <br /> 1977 :? <br /> Lam-;•\.C� l�Ci^r�.4-��J•� <br /> Agath' Johnson Clerk to the Orange <br />