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ORANGE COUNTY HOARD OF Colc4ISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No Zy - -�-- ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: March.9 1992 S;;BJ ECT: ENO MOUNTAIN ROAD CLOSING ------ - - -- -- COUNTY MANAGER /- -- PUBLIC HEARING YES: NO: X DE?ARTMENT: COUNTY ATIMEY - - -- - ----------------7----------------- -- ------ -- --): INFORMATION CONTACT: Geoffrey Gledhill, . 'County Attorney, Petition TELEPHONE NU24BER- 732 -2196 11/1/87 and 11/15/87 Resolutions Hillsborough - 732 -8181 Resolution Chapel Hill - .,968 -4501 N.C.G.S. §153A -241 ,Mebane - 2.27 ---737331 Durham - fi8831 PURPOSE: To consider a resolution declaring the intent' of the Board of Commissioners to close a portion.of Eno Mountain Road. BACKGROUND: In November 1987 -the Board of Commissioners adopted two resolutions (the first on November.l, 1987; the second on.November 15, 1987 expressing its support of the straightening and paving of Eno Mountain Road, generally from the Eno River south to its intersection with Orange Grove Road. Those resolutions requested- the North: Carolina Department of Transportation to abandon the - -Eno.. Mountain. Road right of•way that existed then and that would no longer be.�used after the road straightening and paving project was complete. Finally, the.Board resolved that it'would do its part in the process of abandoning Eno Mountain Road by declaring' its intent to close the abandoned'poiction of the.'road- and to hold a public hearing on the closing. This latter step .was'an' important feature in the agreement to straighten and improve Eno.Mountain..Road. because the owners of the property abutting the-new road gave the Department.of Transportation the right of way for the road improvements with the-expectation that the.-right of.way for the abandoned portion of the road would revert.to them as provided by law in the case of a-closed public road. The road project is-now. complete and • the' North Carolina - Department of Transportation has abandoned; for maintenance purposes, the,old� road. With a letter dated February 24, 1992, the -County Attorney, received a petition from Tredmont,, Inc. and Resco - - Products, Inc., owners of'a. substantial portion of the abandoned segment of Eno-Mountain Road, formally requesting that -the abandoned. section. of the - road ' be. - closed.- .'The next - step in, this process is for the Board of Commissioners to adopt the. attached resolution declaring its.intent to close.-the public -road and to set.the- public.hearing for the road closing. At' the conclusion .of -the public- Bearing, the Board can formally.close the road provided -it.can make the findings of fact which are required by.., the statute authorizing road closings which statute is. also attached to this agenda - abstract.. RECON30M RATION: The -Manager and the County Attorney recommend the adoption.of the resolution declaring-the Board's intent to.close designated portions of Eno Mountain Road.