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140 23 <br /> finish with them . What happens after you <br /> finish with them is the County is out of it <br /> altogether, or that is supposed to be what <br /> happens . The only time the County gets back <br /> into it is where you have approved a road that <br /> is part of a road network and you see it again <br /> in the context of an extension of the same <br /> road. Ordinarily you see it only one time and <br /> then you are finished with it. It' s our goal <br /> at a staff level that the County is finished <br /> with it once the approval process is complete . <br /> I have written a letter to Barry Jacobs, which <br /> he may or may not have shared with you, which <br /> is evidence of what happens when that whole <br /> system breaks down and it is this that concerns <br /> me, in part. I received a letter from a group <br /> of homeowners who are concerned about <br /> particular members of a Homeowner ' s Association <br /> who will not pay their dues and are so against <br /> paying those dues that they are willing to <br /> assume responsibility for maintaining an entire <br /> road system at an Orange County required level <br /> as opposed to agreeing to pay whatever the <br /> Homeowners ' Association says is due In exchange <br /> for the agreement of all of the members of the <br /> Homeowners ' Association to ,Jointly maintain the <br /> road. So that is the degree to which such <br /> things can become problems. Orange County is <br /> not in this and my goal is to keep Orange <br /> County out of this; it is a Private Road <br /> matter. That is one of the things that will <br /> develop. I predict that 1 will see five of <br /> these letters in 1988 and I will see twenty of <br /> these letters in 1989, etc. The reason for <br /> this prediction is that ten years ago I saw <br /> fifteen subdivisions a year I see fifteen <br /> subdivisions a month now. That's just the kind <br /> of development that is occurring. <br /> With respect to the issue of what kind of road <br /> there ought to be, under the current scheme of <br /> things we have one problem in that there is at <br /> least one standard which exists In the <br /> Subdivision Regulations which we don 't know how <br /> to use because we don 't have what it requires <br /> and that is a Thoroughfare Plan, or <br /> Transportation Plan of some kind. Orange <br /> County has none. So, when a road is proposed <br /> to be private, if there is no transportation <br /> plan, then it is deemed not to be in conflict <br /> with one . It seems to me that is probably <br /> correct as a matter of logic, but it seems to <br /> me that what ought to happen with that is that <br /> standard should be removed from the Subdivision <br /> Regulations , probably should have been removed <br /> however many years ago it was put in until a <br /> Transportation Plan got in there so as not to <br />