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CRANE mu= BOARD O Cçt1ISSIONE2.S Action Agnda Item No.D-8.b AC.CION AGENDA. .u.em ABSTRACT Merrov= DME_ Are 7, 1982 Sibject: Road Nare Sign Program Policy concerning erection of signs at Pdblic, Non-State Maintained Roads De.ar-LInant:Plannin. I Public Hearing: Yes no Attachntent(s): Information Contact: Jim Polatty phone Ntrnber: Ext. 342 PURPOSE: To set a policy to help deternane which public, non-state maintained roads will be pasted by the County with road name signs NEED: Orange County has named and posted public roadswithintheunincorporated - areas of the County. These are roads that are state maintained. The County subdivision regulations require road signs an all newly created public and private roads. The Road Naming Advisory Comittee s (RONAC) charge was to name all public and pdblic non-state maintained roads. No policy has ever been set about posting signs an the public non-state • maintained roads. Many of these roads were created after the 1973 North Carolina state law establishing maintenance standards was passed but before the 1970 adoption of County-wide subdivision regulations. There are about 190 of these public non-state maintained roads. Approldmately 65 roads are paved, and 125 are unpaved. About 45 of the 190 roads of these pdolic, non- state maintained roads are in sUbdivisions which do not yet qualify for, or are awaiting state neantenanceo Almost all unpaved roads and antnknowe percentase of the paved roads will never be accepted onto the state system. The County Menagerie proposed Saligt has left open the possibility of posting all 190 pdolic, non-state maintained roads. IMPACT: These public non-state maintained roads all serve dwelling units. Therefore, these citizens have a potential need for location by the County emergency services. Sore of these 190 roads might be private. The legal status of soma of these roads is not clear. Without a title search that status may never be known. If the County pests these private roads, an cbvious contradiction would be created between our subdivision regulations, which require develoeers to pay for their road signs and this County action. The recontendatien would provide a policy to help ensure that no private roads are posted and that the citizens living an the road want a sign. ECOMENERTION: Adopt a policy for posting all public roads if: a) the roads are on the state road system b) the public, non-state maintained roads will, be added onto the state road system c) the public, non-state maintained roads will not be adcd to the state system but there is a recorded plat showing the right-of-way as public and 51% of the residents want the County to erect a road name sign. ------__