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084 <br /> O R A N G E C O U N T Y <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date June 16, 19t7 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item # 4;4 <br /> SUBJECT: - TOWN OF HILLSBOROUGH REQUEST - RELINQUISHMENT BY ORANGE COUNTY OF <br /> ADMINISTRATION OF SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS <br /> DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENT( S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Marvin Collins <br /> 6/9/87 Letter - Hillsborough Planning Director <br /> 6/2/80 Commissioners Minutes <br /> Design Standards - 1-40 <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS : <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> PURPOSE: Consideration of a request by the Town of Hillsborough for <br /> Orange County to indicate if it will relinquish <br /> administration of the Subdivision Regulations within the <br /> Town ' s planning and zoning jurisdiction. <br /> BACKGROUND: On June 2, 1980, the Town of Hillsborough formally requested <br /> that- . Orange - County enforce- the County Subdivision <br /> Regulations- within the -- Town limits and extraterritorial <br /> zoning jurisdiction. The Board of Commissioners approved the <br /> request. <br /> Since June of 1980, subdivision activity within the Town ' s <br /> corporate limits and extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction <br /> has been limited (3-5 applications per year) . Likewise, <br /> revenues collected from application fees have been minimal , <br /> rang i ng_.f rom-. $630-- to- 51050 annually. <br /> The Town has now initiated the - preparation`s--.of : = subdivision <br /> regulations for its planning and zoning jurisdiction using <br /> the Orange County Subdivision Regulations as a model . Before <br /> commencing,- this effort in earnest, the Town would like to <br /> -know - If the Board —of-Commissioners will--release control of <br /> administration -- and enforcement -- of the -subdivision <br /> regulations to -the Town upon adoption of its own. ordinance. <br /> The request would not alter other services currently <br /> performed by Orange County at the request of the Town; i . e. , <br /> administration and enforcement of the N. C. State Building <br /> Code and the Orange County Sedimentation and Erosion Control <br /> Ordinance. <br />