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s- ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT <br />306F REVERE ROAD <br />HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA 27278 <br />a� <br />¢4 <br />A <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Marvin Collins, Planning Director <br />FROM: <br />Don Powell, <br />Information <br />Services Supervisor <br />SUBJECT: <br />Petition to <br />re -name Old <br />N.C. 86 <br />DATE: May 23, 1990 <br />I received a copy of the petition sent by Robert Haas to <br />change the name of Old N.C. 86 to Old Chapel Hill Road, and <br />to assign numbered addresses accordingly. <br />Approximately 100 addresses have been assigned along Old N.C. <br />86 to residents of old rural routes 2,4 and 11 served by the <br />Chapel Hill post office. Some of these assigned addresses <br />date back to 1987, the year we began the project. Until we <br />received Mr. Haas' request, no one had objected to the use of <br />Old N.C. 86 as their address. On the contrary, when <br />residents of old route 11 were polled for their choice of <br />street addresses along that portion of the road extending <br />south from Calvander to the intersection of Greensboro Street <br />and Hillsborough Road, they chose Old N.C. 86. <br />In our experience in address assigning for the past three <br />years, we have gotten a pretty good feel for the choices of <br />the citizens for what they want to call the road they live <br />on. We would caution Mr. Haas to consider the addresses <br />already assigned to Old N.C. 86, addresses which we in good <br />faith informed the citizens were permanent. We would be <br />doing these people a disservice to put them through another <br />address change for the sake of personal and arbitrary <br />feelings of a few. <br />Additionally, a road known as Old Chapel Hill Road already <br />exists, the road leading from Durham to Chapel Hill which <br />roughly parallels US 15/501, and listed on the County road <br />map as Legion Road Extension. Some confusion may result if <br />another road is given the same name as a road which is known <br />by many County residents as Old Chapel Hill Road. <br />If Mr. Haas is insistent upon pursuing his desire to change <br />the name, then he has the right to petition this office with <br />a majority of the signatures of residents of Old N.C-86 who <br />concur with his wishes. The Board of Commissioners may then <br />consider the change. <br />