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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 22, 2006 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 5-S <br />SUBJECT: Petition for Addition of Subdivision Roads to the State Maintained System <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. Vicinity Map for The Village of the Oaks <br />2. Vicinity Map for Richmond Hills Subdivision <br />3. Petition Letter & SR Addition Investigation <br />Reports for Willow Oak Dr. & Scarlet Oak Ln. <br />4. Petition Letter & SR Addition Investigation <br />Report for Boundbrook Drive <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Karen Lincoln, 245 -2594 <br />PURPOSE: To approve a recommendation regarding petitions to add Willow Oak Drive, Scarlet <br />Oak Lane and Boundbrook Drive to the State Maintained Secondary Road System. <br />BACKGROUND: The Village of the Oaks: Property owners on Willow Oak Drive (5 homes) <br />and Scarlet Oak Lane (3 homes) have petitioned the North Carolina Department of <br />Transportation ( NCDOT) to accept maintenance responsibilities for those roads. Willow Oak <br />Drive platted in the first section of the Village of the Oaks, is located off the south side of <br />Bradshaw Quarry Road (SR 1100) in Bingham Township. Scarlet Oak Lane, platted in Section <br />Four of the subdivision, is located off Chestnut Oak Drive (on the south side of Thom Road, the <br />continuation of Bradshaw Quarry Road) in Alamance County,. The Orange County Board of <br />Commissioners approved the preliminary plat for the first section of The Village of the Oaks <br />subdivision in August 1993. The Board approved the section three and four preliminary plat in <br />February 1994. Orange County resolutions approving the preliminary plats for both sections <br />include language that stipulates a condition of approval that Willow Oak Drive and Scarlet Oak <br />Lane "shall be irrevocably dedicated to the general public and be constructed to the standards <br />of the North Carolina Department of Transportation" and that "approval of this resolution <br />authorizes and directs the Orange County Manager to accept for Orange County and on behalf <br />of the public generally, the offer of dedication without maintenance responsibility." The <br />resolutions further states that the owner /applicant shall maintain the roads "until such time as <br />they are accepted for maintenance by the North Carolina Department of Transportation or some <br />other governmental body." <br />Richmond Hills: Property owners on Boundbrook Drive (21 homes) have petitioned the North <br />Carolina Department of Transportation ( NCDOT) to accept maintenance responsibilities for the <br />road. Richmond Hills is located on the northside of US Hwy 70 off the east side of Richmond <br />Road, Cheeks Township. The Board of Commissioners approved the preliminary plat for <br />Richmond Hills in August 2000, stipulating that the roads be built to NCDOT standards and <br />dedicated to the general public. The Board recommended addition of other roads in Richmond <br />