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D R A F T iv.Available resources for minor improvements at problem sites/intersections within 56 the county.57 58 v.Pedestrian safety concerns on (new) Hwy 86/I-40 bridge overpass.59 60 vi.Other topics as raised by the Board.61 62 OUTBoard Action:Receive information and participate in discussion.63 64 b.Review of selected private road and access standards from the Unified Development 65 Ordinance (UDO) Section 7.8 Access and Roadways.66 67 OUTBoard Action:Review selected standards and recommend to the BOCC that 68 planning staff review/revise and develop amendments.69 70 71 Abigaile Pittman had Jeff Charles describe photos. 72 73 Jeff Charles: I am the bicycling advocate for the Boardand I am also on the Chapel Hill Bike Ped Board andI’ve 74 been appointed to the new TARPO bike planningthat is coming up. Dairyland is a key bicycling route in the county. I 75 would like to give credit to the fine jobdone onNC 10 and that was our expectation as to what would happen on 76 Dairyland. I went to the intersection of Union Grove Road and Dairyland and drove up to Maple View Ice Cream 77 Store. Most of these photosare on the right side of the road going toward Maple View. (Displayed photos).78 79 Chuck Edwards: The issues with the PSNC gas lines goingin. Public Service gas has a large comprehensive 80 project to put in new gas lines and they are affecting a lot ofstate maintained roads. The instrument used is an 81 encroachment agreement that spells who is responsible for what. This is to be expected with the extent of the work 82 they are doing. Prior to a final inspection, we will look at areas like this and if there is damage that warrants repair, 83 we shouldrequire them to do that. Back to Dairyland Road, it was included on our secondary road construction 84 program presented to the BOCC. This was a time we were moving secondary road construction funds from their 85 primary purpose of paving unpaved roads to going toward paved road improvements because we have effectively86 paved out the available unpaved county roads in the county. Our project was to widen the pavement on the road two 87 feet and resurface. The existing pavement is variable. This is a low tech project. It is not intended to be specifically 88 a bike ped type of project, just a safety improvement. Because of that variability and the way the pavement is89 marked, the widthdoes vary.We are looking at doing Lebanon Road in the Mebane area and a portion ofNew 90 Sharon Church Road. All remaining unpaved roads were reprioritized by a competing statewide basis for $12 million 91 dollars total. 92 93 Jeff Charles: In the past, we have talked about Old 86, the Calvander section,as part of a bigger improvement of 94 taking Old 86 all the way to Hillsborough. Is there a way to partition it?95 96 Chuck Edwards: For the past few years, I was relying on the secondary paved improvements to deal with some of 97 these routes. A road like Old 86 is typically not going to be paved ina single year anyway.98 99 Jeff Charles: Our hope was that if the Hogan Farmarea would donate the right-of-way, it would reduce the cost.100 101 Chuck Edwards: Yes.102 103 Jeff Charles: How do you do that?104 105 Chuck Edwards: There are ways to do that and there may already be dedicated right-of-way.106 107 Abigaile Pittman: We recently had an Orange County Expo and the planning departmenthad to man atable for four 108 hours. We had of our bike map and I only got one comment consistently. They picked up the bike map and said this 109 is a hot issue for me because when I try to drive through the county roads, the bikers don’t have anywhere to ride.110 111 4 ReturntoAgenda