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ORANGE C O U N T Y <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 16, 1990 <br />SUBJECT: ASSIGNMENT OF HOUSE AND BUILDING NUMBERS <br />DEPARTMENT: PLANNING <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />G.S. 153A -240 <br />Location Map <br />Notification Letter <br />Legal Notice <br />Brochure <br />8/30/90 Public <br />Hearing Minutes <br />1 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item #X- S <br />PUBLIC HEARING Yes _X —No <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: Don Powell <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough - 732 -8181 <br />Durham - 688 -7331 <br />Mebane - 227 -2031 <br />Chapel Hill - 967 -9251 <br />PURPOSE: To consider the assignment of proposed house and building <br />numbers to Orange County Rural Routes 7 and 3, <br />Hillsborough. <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 <br />a continuation of the project begun in 1987 to change all <br />County addresses to permanently assigned house numbers. <br />To date twenty three (23) routes have been changed (Chapel <br />Hill routes 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,10,11,13 and 15; Hillsborough <br />routes 1,2,4,5 and 8; Durham routes 1,2 and 7; Rougemont <br />routes 2 and 3; Cedar Grove route 1; and Hurdle Mills <br />route 1). <br />Route 7 Hillsborough was postponed at the request of the <br />Board of Commissioners at the May 29 Public Hearing and <br />again at the August 30 Public Hearing. Route 3 <br />Hillsborough was also postponed at the August 30 Public <br />Hearing. The Commissioners deferred action on the <br />assignment of house and building numbers to allow time to <br />resolve the issue of renaming Old NC 86 between I -85 and <br />New Hope Church Road to Old Chapel Hill Drive. The road <br />naming issue is being considered as a separate agenda item <br />at this meeting. <br />Only 39 residents of both routes would be directly <br />affected by the road name change if occurs. Approximately <br />