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ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT HILLSBOROUGH NORTH CAROLINA 03 27278 `...1 ..` t, _'5, September 14, 1967 1 Postmaster U.S. Postal Service Hillsborough, NC 27278 Dear Postmaster: As you probably know by now, 0ranoe County has adopted an ordinance providing for the change-over from rural route addresses to house numbers. In its initial effort the Planning Department hes been working most closely with the Chapel HiII Post Office on Estes Drive. Entire postal routes, those most affected by "growing pains" , have been chosen by the Chapel Hill Postmaster for house number asslon- ment. To date, three Chapel Hill routes - 2, 5, and B - have been changed, with public hearings, posting of notices and the other requirements of N. C. General Statute 153A-240. Initially, it was decided to involve only those Post Offices in whose jurisdiction address changes were being effected. Inasmuch as the high growth areas exist primarily in the southern part of the County, it was felt that the Chapel Hill Post Office would be a sole working partner with County Planning for the first months of the project. It was later determined that this would hold true only If postal routes in their entirety, were assigned house numbers. Well into the project it was decided that newly constructed buildings, erected after the Ordinance went into effect, should also be essigned numbers conforming with the overall , County-wide system. This would preclude an additional address change for that resident further down the line. But it would also bring into the picture postal jurisdictions other than Chapel . Hill . We now are at the point where those other postal jurisdic- tions and Orange County Planning must meet to coordinate the address assignments relative to specific postal controls.