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. 5 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: February 26, 1990 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item # 1,-1-4. <br /> D- i -b <br /> SUBJECT: ASSIGNMENT OF HOUSE AND BUILDING NUMBERS <br /> DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING X,Yes No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Don Powell <br /> G.S. 153A-240 <br /> Location Map <br /> Notification Letter TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Legal Notice Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Information Brochure Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill - 967-9251 <br /> PURPOSE: To receive citizen comment on proposed house and building <br /> numbers to be assigned to Orange County Rural Route 5 <br /> served by the Hillsborough Post Office and Rural Route 2 <br /> as it extends into Orange County (Zip Code 27705) , served <br /> by the North Durham Post Office. <br /> BACKGROUND: Per an agreement reached between Orange County and the US <br /> Postal Service, all rural box numbers are being converted <br /> to street addresses within the County. The conversion is a <br /> continuation of the project begun in 1987 to change all <br /> County addresses to permanently assigned house numbers . <br /> To date eighteen routes have been changed (Chapel Hill <br /> routes 1, 2,4,5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13 and 15; Hillsborough routes <br /> 1,2,4 and 8; Rougemont routes 2 and 3; and Hurdle Mills <br /> route 1) . <br /> Route 5 Hillsborough includes an area beginning at Old NC <br /> 86 (Churton Street) , east along Old US 70 E. , south on NC <br /> 86, then along Old NC 10 east to the Southern Railway <br /> crossing; then north on Lawrence Road, east along Old US <br /> 70 E. to Seven Springs Road, returning westward along US <br /> 70 E. , south on Lawrence Road and west on Old US 70 E. to <br /> Old NC 86 (Churton Street) . Included in Route 5 are Joppa <br /> Oaks, Byrdsville, Strayhorn Hills, Colonial Hills Mobile <br /> Home Park, Colonial Hills Subdivision and Piney Grove and <br /> Valley Forge Roads . <br />