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1 <br /> ORANGE C O U N T Y <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date April 20 , 1993 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item # V.1-A <br /> SUBJECT: ORDER CLOSING RIGHT-OF-WAY - END OF WISTERIA DRIVE <br /> DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING: X Yes No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Emily Cameron <br /> Resolution Extension 2580 <br /> Petition by Property Owners <br /> Vicinity Map <br /> NC G.S. 153A-241 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Birchwood Lake Estates Plat Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Whitfield's Glen Preliminary Plat Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Order Closing Right-of-Way Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 <br /> PURPOSE: To conduct a public hearing on and to consider an <br /> order closing a right-of-way located at the end of <br /> Wisteria Drive (SR 1884) in Birchwood Lake Estates <br /> Subdivision, Phase I. <br /> BACKGROUND: Closure of the Wisteria Drive stubout is related to <br /> the Preliminary Plan application for Whitfield's Glen <br /> Subdivision, which is scheduled for consideration <br /> following the Board's decision on the right-of-way <br /> abandonment. Once the right-of-way is closed, the <br /> property will be used to provide direct access to one <br /> of the proposed lots in Whitfield's Glen. <br /> Birchwood Lake Estates Subdivision, Phase I, is <br /> located in Chapel Hill Township on the south side of <br /> Whitfield Road (SR 1731) east of Mimosa Drive (SR <br /> 1880) . In 1975, the plat for Birchwood Lake Estates, <br /> Phase I, showed a stub out at the end of Wisteria <br /> Drive (SR 1884 ) extending to the western boundary of <br /> the subdivision between lots 9 and 10 . <br /> The stubout was never constructed. Wisteria Drive ends <br /> in a cul de sac approximately 210 feet from the <br /> western subdivision boundary. Lots 9 and 10 have <br /> driveways extending from the cul de sac. In 1979, the <br /> Department of Transportation accepted the constructed <br /> portion of the road for maintenance responsibility. <br /> On March 23, 1993, the Board of Commissioners adopted <br />