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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: June 12, 2007 Action Agenda Item No. + - i:�b SUBJECT: Bradford Ridge Road Petition for Addition to the State Maintained System DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: 1. Map of Bradford, Ridge Subdivision Karen Lincoln, 245-2594 2. Letter from C.N. Edwards, NCDOT Craig Benedict, 245-2592 SR Addition Investigation Report 3. March 22, 2003, Minutes of Bradford Ridge HOA 4. Letter from Geof Gledhill, Attorney, To Karen Lincoln 5. ROW letter from C. N. Edwards PURPOSE: To consider a petition to add Bradford Ridge Road to the State Maintained Secondary Road System. BACKGROUND: The property owners in Bradford Ridge subdivision (14 homes) have petitioned the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) to accept maintenance responsibilities for Bradford Ridge Road. Bradford Ridge is located off the south side of Borland Road, east of Chestnut Ridge Church Road, Bingham Township. The Board of County Commissioners approved Bradford Ridge Subdivision, containing twenty-two (22) lots ranging from 2.008 acres to 5.526, with a private road in August 1999. The approved plat includes a 60- foot private ingress/egress easement extending from the cukde=sac on Bradford Ridge Road to a 10.8-acre (approximately) property south of the subdivision, with a "Temporary 30' Private Access Easement" extending from the 60-foot easement to 5.00 acres dedicated to Orange County that is in a Resource Protection Area designated as a wildlife corridor in the Land Use Element of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan. The Road Maintenance Agreement, recorded at the same time as the original plat, stipulates (in Article 4) that the private road may be dedicated to the public at the election of a majority vote of the owners. The homeowners association, in March 2003, voted to petition the North Carolina Department of Transportation to accept maintenance responsibilities for the road and add the road to the State secondary road system (please refer to item 4, page 7). The homeowners completed the following actions to comply with NCDOT requirements to add the road to the State Secondary Road System and accept maintenance responsibilities: 1. Submitted to NCDOT a soil density test performed by an engineer showing that Bradford Ridge Road conforms to State Secondary Road Standards;