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ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT 306F REVERE ROAD C HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA 27278 196 0'•9 � rm�N ia: August 27, 1987 Richard M. Rehm 233 Hideaway Drive Chapel Hill , NC 27514 Dear Mr. Rehm : We appreciate your comments given at the Public Hearing on August 24, 1987 regarding house number assignments on rural route 2. The acceptance of any change to an established pattern is a difficult process. We acknowledge that this acceptance by Hideaway Estates residents has been made more difficult by virtue of your on-going use of house number addresses for the past ten years. However, to omit Hideaway Estates from a uniform, county-wide house numbering system would be doing you a disservice . Your neighborhood would be an isolated non-conforming community in an overall conforming address system. The equal - interval system we are implementing is a tried-and- tested method of property numbering proposed by the American Society of Planning Officials. Research for the Orange County plan was begun in 1979 by Planning Department Staff . Exhaustive field checks, tax map surveys and aerial map studies were completed prior to the County Commissioners adoption of the ordinance on April 21 , 1987 enabling staff to effect address changes on rural routes 5 and 8. Chapel Hill ' s Postmaster lends support to the endeavor and route changes are coordinated with his facility to ensure correct numbering and a smooth transition . The change-over on routes 5 and 8 has worked well . The four-digit numbers assigned to Hideaway Estates were determined by scaling 50 foot increments on county tax maps, southward along old NC 86 from its intersection with Hwy. 70, to a point of horizontal alignment with Hideaway Drive ' s northern tip. From that point on Hideaway Drive addresses were assigned to residences at 50 foot intervals, beginning