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Draft OUTBoard Proposed Policy for Processing Petitions for Addition of 4 Subdivision Roads to the State Maintained System Background The County is seeing an increase in Petitions for Addition for roads that the County has not approved as public roads in the subdivision process. Staff processing of these petitions is often delayed because the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) does not have a policy in place to ensure equitable treatment in the decision-making process with respect to the various circumstances under which the roads were originally created. Orange County's subdivision regulations (Section I-A Purpose) are designed: • to insure adequate planning of street systems; • to avoid overcrowding of land, prevent fire, panic, and other dangers; • to insure that water and sewage systems be safe and adequate; • to prevent flood damage; • to facilitate an orderly use of land; • to insure the proper legal description and monumenting of subdivided land; and • to encourage the proper management of Orange County's natural resources. When land is divided and a road is built that is exempt from County regulatory authority, the roads may prevent development of an interconnected County road network.. If those roads are subsequently accepted as public roads as part of the State Maintained System, further subdivision of land may proceed in piecemeal fashion, destroying the potential for well-planned development. OUTBoard Subcommittee A subcommittee of the Orange Unified Transportation Board (OUTBoard) reviewed issues concerning petitions for State maintenance of subdivision roads, and determined that the same issues exist regardless of the way in which the road came into being. The subcommittee recommended the same treatment for all .petitions for addition of a subdivision road to the State Maintained System. When the BOCC approves a major subdivision in which the roads are proposed to be public roads, the Board has reviewed the subdivision's street system, and intends for those roads to become NCDOT maintained roads. Therefore, the BOCC would recommend that the North Carolina Board of Transportation approve such petitions for addition of roads to the State Maintained System. In all other cases, when the BOCC receives Petitions for Addition for roads that the County has not approved as public roads through the subdivision process, the petitions should be referred to the OUTBoard for review. Examples of such roads are subdivision roads platted/created in one of the following ways: • Developments in which all lots are greater than 10 acres that are exempt from local subdivision regulation per N.C. State Statute §153A-335; • Major subdivisions approved with private roads; • Minor subdivisions; • Subdivisions platted prior to October 1, 1975.