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°. - -0- 2' p io s GS 153A-239 requires that a Public Hearing be held prior to the noV- --�— property. Public comment on assign�!d house number-, will be soli- cited a1 too types of Public Hearings held concurrent Wth the Road ||ume Hearings described in Section III of this report. The Table below compares the charac- terfsCics of thwe maadngs. TABLE 2 LOCAL INIFORNIATION' 1,11EETlK Purpose Present house norn�ers assigned Present house numbers assigned to Fire Districts; hear comments- countywide; hear comnents; adopt house numbers. Cu/I�ucteJ Road Naming Advisory Committee Board of County Commissioners By Lev�_,l Fire District County Location Fire Hnoses County court House Number minimum of 3 per Fire District Minimum of 3 Hon1h 4, 8, Il Months S, 9, I2 3^ - several methodologies have been developed for the assignment of s. The Town of Chapel Hill employs an informal system in xhich u new series of propzrty numbers begins at each road intersection. The Tmvns� of Carrbnru. Hillsborough and Mebane, the City of Durham, and Durham and Guil- ford Cminties employ another method, the Equal Interval System' It is recom- mended that house numbers in rua1 Orange County he assigned according to this system. The Equal Interval System requires the seluctioh of too intersecting base lines, one running in an east-west direction, the other running in a north - south direction' A frontage interval 1s then used to assign a progression of house numbers to properties, working out from these lines' House numbers inc/ease as one moves u,/ay from these lines in any direction along m cnutiou- cux road. Odd numbers are assigned to one side of the road and even numbers to the other. Several numbers are held in reserve for property developed at a later date. ° Table 3 below desoribsn the details of the proposed house numbering sys ton. It is important to note that adoption of this system oould oenu ' the extension of the Too� of Hillsborough's house numbering system to the majority of structures in rural orange County. Thu system, however, has head u.uJified in order to make it suitable for use in a predominantly rural Coyn�y.