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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COIQ4IS8IONERS <br />FACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: Mareh.9 1992 <br />SiBJECT: ENO MOUNTAIN ROAD CLOSING <br />1 <br />Action Agenda <br />item <br />D= ?A_�iMENT COUNTY- MANAGER / ^ - ^r PUBLICHEARING - -YES -- - -j--- - - -- <br />COUNTY 013 <br />ATTM _ .. _ _ -------- . - <br />- <br />`T AC:- :MENT(S) INFORMATION CONTACT: Geoffrey Gledhill, <br />rte_ .- !County Attorney,. <br />Petition TELEPHONE NUMBER- 732 -2196 <br />11/1/87 and 11/15/87 Resolutions Hillsborough ­732-8181 <br />Resolution Chapel Hill -.968 -4501 <br />N.C.G.S. §153A --241 Mebane - 2.27 -2031 <br />Durham - 688 -7331 <br />PURPOSE: To consider a resolution declaring the intent of the Board of <br />Commissioners to close a portion.of Eno Mountain Road. <br />BACKGROUND: In November 1987.-the Board of Commissioners adopted two <br />resolutions (the first on November 1, 1987; the second on.November 15, 1987) <br />expressing its support of the straightening and paving of.Eno Mountain Road, <br />generally from the Eno River south to -its intersection with Orange Grove <br />Road. Those resolutions - requested- the North. Carolina Department of <br />Transportation to abandon the Eno - Mountain - Road right of -way that existed <br />then and that would -no longer. be 'used after the road straightening and paving <br />project was complete. Finally, the. :Board resolved that it,would do its part <br />in the process of abandoning Eno Mountain Road by declaring' its intent to <br />close the abandoned*poirtion of the- road-and to hold a public hearing on the. <br />closing. This latter step .was .an important feature in the agreement to <br />straighten and improve Eno.Mountain,..Road - because the owners of. the property, <br />abutting the-new road gave the Department -.of Transportation the right of way <br />for.the road improvements with the-expectation that the -right of. way for the <br />abandoned portion of the�road would_ revert.to them as provided by law in the <br />case of'a- closed public road. <br />.The,road project is-now complete and-the' North Carolina-Department of <br />Transportation-has abairidoned, for maintenance purposes, the -old road. With <br />a letter dated February 24, 1992, the County Attorney., received. a petition <br />from..Tredmont, Inc. and Resco- Products, Inc., owners', of'.a: substantial <br />portion of the abandoned segment-of ' :'Eno,Mountain Road, for <br />requesting <br />that the abandoned . sect.ion - of the -oad be closed. * The next. step in -this . <br />process. is -for the Board of Commissioners to adopt -the attached resolution <br />declaring its. intent to close.- -the -public 'road and to set .the- public- hearing <br />for the road closing. At'the conclusion -of -the public liearng - the Board can <br />formally.close..the road provided- it'.can, make the findings.of fact which are <br />required by.,the statute authorizing road .closings. which statute is. also, <br />attached to this agenda-abstract. <br />RECOMMENDATION: The -Manager and -the County Attorney recommend the. <br />adoption.of the resolution declaring-the Board's intent.to.c,lose designated <br />portions of Eno Mountain Road. <br />