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In addition to route- <br /> House Numbers are replacing + y conversion, new houses on <br /> Rural Routes and Box Numbers f single lots are assigned <br /> in Orange County. - The -street addresses at the timd` <br /> Planning and Inspections 1 co the Building Permit is issued. <br /> Department, with help from the Subdivision lots are numbered <br /> U.S. Postal Service, began the y `�}- during the Planning Department <br /> project in the spring of 1987, ! Hwy 70 review process so that final <br /> after the Board of County plats have pre-determined <br /> Commissioners adopted an IIICI;S(]0lt0�Cl� numbers for future address <br /> ordinance authorizing the assignment. <br /> conversion to street <br /> addresses . The objective is I r; 1715 to give permanency and 0 1703 8320 <br /> consistency to a system which CL ' <br /> will allow more efficient mail I 00CIIAPEL delivery, and 911 access, to 10- } 17 9 8322 an address that will remain constant, even as postal territories change. 1711 CARROOR8317 .. <br /> The system, called the Equal <br /> Interval System, works like <br /> this: New number assignments will <br /> 17117 Two intersecting base lines become an integral part of the <br /> .� (roads) define a point of County's GEOGRAPHICAL <br /> origin from which 50-foot INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS) . GIS . <br /> ,vs increments are measured as one is a computer mapping system <br /> s�"oJT,q� moves away from the zero which has analytical <br /> e point• where houses or capabilities. It will know <br /> buildings exist, a number is the distance of all the <br /> assigned consistent with the . County's roads, and when asked <br /> distance measured from the to locate any of the <br /> base intersection. Vacant sequentially assigned numbers, <br /> land is held in reserve for GIS will be capable of <br /> = future potential growth and dispensing an almost infinite <br /> number assignment. Block amount of information relative <br /> numbers change every 600 feet, to that specific address . <br /> thus, the further away from This will be particularly <br /> the intersecting base lines important in the dispatching <br /> (NC 70 and NC 86) the higher - of emergency vehicles under <br /> the house number. the County's EMERGENCY <br /> DISPATCH SYSTEM (E-911) . __� <br />