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Approved 11/19/14 iv. Available resources for minor improvements at problem sites /intersections within the county. v. Pedestrian safety concerns on (new) Hwy 86/1 -40 bridge overpass. vi. Other topics as raised by the Board. OUTBoard Action: Receive information and participate in discussion. b. Review of selected private road and access standards from the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Section 7.8 Access and Roadways. OUTBoard Action: Review selected standards and recommend to the BOCC that planning staff review /revise and develop amendments. Abigaile Pittman had Jeff Charles describe photos. Jeff Charles: I am the bicycling advocate for the Board and I am also on the Chapel Hill Bike Ped Board and I've been appointed to the new TARPO bike planning that is coming up. Dairyland is a key bicycling route in the county. I would like to give credit to the fine job done on NC 10 and that was our expectation as to what would happen on Dairyland. I went to the intersection of Union Grove Road and Dairyland and drove up to Maple View Ice Cream Store. Most of these photos are on the right side of the road going toward Maple View. (Displayed photos). Chuck Edwards: The issues with the PSNC gas lines going in. Public Service gas has a large comprehensive project to put in new gas lines and they are affecting a lot of state maintained roads. The instrument used is an encroachment agreement that spells who is responsible for what. This is to be expected with the extent of the work they are doing. Prior to a final inspection, we will look at areas like this and if there is damage that warrants repair, we should require them to do that. Back to Dairyland Road, it was included on our secondary road construction program presented to the BOCC. This was a time we were moving secondary road construction funds from their primary purpose of paving unpaved roads to going toward paved road improvements because we have effectively paved out the available unpaved county roads in the county. Our project was to widen the pavement on the road two feet and resurface. The existing pavement is variable. This is a low tech project. It is not intended to be specifically a bike ped type of project, just a safety improvement. Because of that variability and the way the pavement is marked, the width does vary. We are looking at doing Lebanon Road in the Mebane area and a portion of New Sharon Church Road. All remaining unpaved roads were reprioritized by a competing statewide basis for $12 million dollars total. Jeff Charles: In the past, we have talked about Old 86, the Calvander section, as part of a bigger improvement of taking Old 86 all the way to Hillsborough. Is there a way to partition it? Chuck Edwards: For the past few years, I was relying on the secondary paved improvements to deal with some of these routes. A road like Old 86 is typically not going to be paved in a single year anyway. Jeff Charles: Our hope was that if the Hogan Farm area would donate the right -of -way, it would reduce the cost. Chuck Edwards: Yes. Jeff Charles: How do you do that? Chuck Edwards: There are ways to do that and there may already be dedicated right -of -way. Abigaile Pittman: We recently had an Orange County Expo and the planning department had to man a table for four hours. We had of our bike map and I only got one comment consistently. They picked up the bike map and said this is a hot issue for me because when I try to drive through the county roads, the bikers don't have anywhere to ride.