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MINUTES OF TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY SUBCOMMITTEE (TAS) MEETING HE ON JUNE 6, 1990 ATTENDANCE TAS Members: Chris Best, Chair Jean Hamilton Betty Eidenier Wendy Olson Barry Jacobs Dick Swank Press: Tim Craig, News of Orange Others: Rolland Wrenn and two unidentified Davis Road Residents Staff: Warren Faircloth, Erosion Control Officer Gene Bell, Planner III 1. CALL TO ORDER - Best called the meeting to order at approximately 7:10 pm. 2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: April 4, 1990 minutes approved. 3. CHAIR COMMENTS - None. 4. DISCUSSION OF PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS - Best opened the discussion with the suggestion that the TAS consider private roads first. Hamilton stated that the draft private roads preamble handed out at the public hearing needed some corrections. Best stated that the preamble had been written by Phil Post at his.(Best's) request and that it was intendec to serve as the starting point for what might eventually be inserted into the Private Road Standards as suggested by the County Attorney. Eidenier stated that she had edited the proposed preamble (primarily from the standpoint of grammar and punctuation) as follows: In Orange County, the strong preference is to serve subdivisions with State - maintained (NCDOT) public streets or municipal streets. The County recognizes, however, that private roads may be beneficial in some cases where the developer provides much larger than average -size lots, and where a.private road graded to a narrower cross- section saves valuable vistas, trees, or natural resources, and reduces cut - and -fill and overall land disturbance. Where the developer clearly shows that such a subdivision is intent on qualifying for private roads by clearly providing benefits such as an enhanced entrance or enhanced streetscape o =f an adjoining public road, saving trees, providing large lots, reducing disturbance and "fitting" lots better into their natural surroundings, the County Sta=