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035 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Item No.� <br /> Meeting Date: MAY 17, 1988 <br /> SUBJECT: COUNTY FUNDING--ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT <br /> BOTTLENECK COMMISSION---SEWER <br /> DEPARTMENT: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT <br /> PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : No <br /> INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> NONE SYLVIA PRICE, X287 <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBER: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider a <br /> the resolutionpofvthef"sewerebottleneck"fnearnHill <br /> g to assist in <br /> gh, <br /> furtherance of Economic Development Commissioner efforts. in <br /> BACKGROUND: The term "sewer bottleneck" describes the under-capacity <br /> the sewer lines between the of <br /> plant and US 70A. This bottleneck scurrentlysbbarsethe eeKten- <br /> sion of sewer service to Meadowlands Business Park and to <br /> Cornerstone Park (the proposed development on the former FCX <br /> property) . <br /> The EDC identified the Meadowlands (formerly the Beard <br /> ro- <br /> perty) in 1984, promoted it as a potential site for a qualit <br /> business park, and has worked with the developers since that <br /> time to bring quality jobs and investment to the park. In <br /> 1986 the FCX property was <br /> 1986 the <br /> development prop to purchased by developers, but <br /> site was also forestalled by under-c pacitytofntheonseewer <br /> lines. wee <br /> Realizing that economic development was hampered severly with- <br /> out sewer availability in this <br /> Hillsborough, the area, the EDC, the Town of <br /> p others <br /> period of eighteen months,dheldopnumerousddiscussi ns t for a <br /> solutions to the bottleneck. discussions to seek <br /> The result of these discussions is a proposal which eliminates <br /> the bottleneck, and makes possible the extension of sewer <br /> services to these economic development sites. The has been estimated by engineers of the Town of Hillsborough <br /> $488, 550, and an equitable funding a at and agreed upon informally as follows: has been recom- <br /> mended <br />