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O R A N G E C O U N T Y <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 1I�y <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: January 21 1992 <br />SUBJECT: REPORT ON TANGLEWOOD ACRES SUBDIVISION: <br />COMPLAINT OF KHYE WENG NG <br />DEPARTMENT: PLANNING <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />11/14/91 Memorandum to <br />Board of Commissioners <br />Tanglewood Acres Resolution <br />of Approval <br />1 <br />Action A enda <br />Item #3 <br />PUBLIC HEARING Yes _x —No <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Scearbo <br />Extension 2583 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough - 732 -8181 <br />Durham - 688 -7331 <br />Mebane - 227 -2031 <br />Chapel Hill - 967 -9251 <br />PURPOSE: To provide the Board with information on the <br />appropriate course of action in response to a <br />complaint concerning a condition of Preliminary Plat <br />approval. <br />BACKGROUND: Guat Cheng Ng appeared before the Board of <br />Commissioners on December 17, 1991 seeking relief from <br />a condition of Preliminary Plat approval for <br />Tanglewood Subdivision. The Board of Commissioners <br />referred the item back to the Planning Staff for <br />review and a recommendation for further action. <br />Summary of Case History <br />The %h4lewood Acres Subdivision was approved by the <br />Board of Commissioners". on -June 26, 1990.° One of the <br />roads in tha``subdivision . v as' required 'to be- improved. <br />to NCDOT standards for unpaved roads The,road was <br />improved only to Class B private.road standards.. The <br />applicant is seeking relief from further improving the <br />road to the standards required in the Resolution of <br />Approval. <br />The justification presented by the applicant for <br />relaxing.the requirement has focused on statements to <br />the surveyor by NCDOT that no construction standards <br />for unpaved roads existed. The Planning Staff <br />believes that a logical response would have been to <br />return to the approving agency to ask what standards <br />should be applied. However, the staff was not made <br />