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Q .14 Orange County has begun a long-overdue process. of county-wide house numbering. This process is now being implemented in phases, beginning with the rural postal routes most subject to immediate expansion or consolidation. It is felt that assigning a house number will constitute a single and final address change for Orange County citizens, thereby precluding the need for future rural route and/or box number changes. The house numbering system will expedite mail delivery, and more importantly, allow 911 emergency calls faster access to addresses. On March 24, 1987, a public hearing will be held before the Orange County Board of Commissioners for the purpose of considering adoption of an ordinance establishing a house numbering system in Orange County. Also scheduled for hearing is the proposed assignment of house numbers in two rural postal routes, including the one in which you reside or have your place of business. The hearing will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Courtroom of the U.S. Post Office on East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. If approved, house numbers and street names will replace the old system of rural route and box numbers. Residents will also be required to display their new number on their mailbox with numerals at least 1 inch high. Larger numbers may be affixed to your house, where buildings front streets at distances which allow readability from the street. The proposed change affecting your address is as follows: OLD ADDRESS NEW ADDRESS If you wish to speak in regard to either of the proposals, please attend the public hearing. We welcome your comments. If there are questions, please contact: Don Powell Orange County Planning Department Hillsborough, NC_ 27278 Phone: 732-8181 Ext. 345 (Chapel Hill 967-9251) or: Carole Herndon U.S. Post Office 125 South Estes Drive Chapel Hill, NC 27514-9998 Phone: 942-4179 •