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1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No. /11C-11$ ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: May 3, 1993 SUBJECT: Abbotts Colony Environmental Review Record DEPARTMENT: Housing/Community Dev. PUBLIC HEARING YES: NO: x ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Tara L. Fikes Environmental Review Record Request for Release of Funds Combined Notice TELEPHONE NUMBER- Hillsborough - 732-8181 Chapel Hill - 968-4501 Mebane - 227-2031 Durham - 688-7331 PURPOSE: To authorize execution of the Environmental Review Record for the Abbotts Colony HOME Project and the Request for Release of Funds form and authorize the publication of a Combined Notice to the Public of No Significant Impact on the Environment and Request for Release of Funds. BACKGROUND: The Orange County HOME Consortium recently received an award of $803,600 in HOME Investment Partnerships Program funds to be used for acquisition, housing rehabilitation and new construction activities in Orange County. Of this amount, $50,000 is available for acquisition activities. This funding will assist in the development of four lots in the Abbotts Colony subdivision off Legion Road in Chapel Hill. These vacant lots in an existing housing subdivision will be developed by the Orange Community Housing Corporation. The N.C. Department of Commerce requires that an environmental review be conducted for each HOME activity prior to the expenditure of funds. This review is done to determine whether proposed activities will have a significant adverse impact on the community. County staff has conducted this assessment and determined that the proposed acquisition would have no significant environmental impact on the community. The findings of this assessment is recorded in the attached Environmental Review Record (ERR) . This document must be approved by the Board and executed by the Chief Elected Official before submission to the State. Additionally, the County is required to advertise at least once in a newspaper of general circulation a Notice to the Public of No Significant Impact on the Environment and Request for Release of Funds. The notice attached, in a format prescribed by Commerce will accomplish this task. Upon approval, this notice will be published on or about May 7, 1993 in the Durham Morning Herald. The public will have a 15 day comment period to review the ERR. RECOMMENDATION(S) : The Manager recommends: 1. Approve the ERR and the Request for Release of Funds and authorize the Chair to sign the document on behalf of the Board. 2. Authorize the publication of a Combined Notice to the Public of No Significant Impact on the Environment and Request for Release of Funds in the Durham Morning Herald on or about May 7, 1993.