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Orange County & NCDOT Highway <br />Division 7 and District 1 Meeting <br />November 19, 2012 12:00 p.m. <br />MEETING NOTES <br />INTRODUCTIONS <br />Attachment 6 22 <br />Present: Bernadette Pelissier, Orange County Commissioner's Chair; Frank Clifton, <br />Orange County Manager; Steve Brantley, Orange County Economic Development <br />Director; Craig Benedict, Orange County Planning Director; Tom Altieri, Orange <br />County Comprehensive Planning Supervisor; Abigaile Pittman, Orange County Land <br />Use & Transportation Planner; Dawn McPherson, NCDOT Division 7 Traffic <br />Engineer; Chuck Edwards, NCDOT Division 7 District Engineer; Mike Mills, NCDOT <br />Division 7 Engineer; Ed Lewis, NCDOT Division 7 Planning Engineer; Pat Wilson, <br />NCDOT Division 7 Operations Engineer; John Howell, NCDOT County Highway <br />Maintenance Engineer; Margaret Hauth, Town of Hillsborough Planning Director; <br />and Montrena Hadley, City of Mebane Planning Director. <br />II. FOLLOW -UP FROM MAY 16, 2012 QUARTERLY MEETING <br />a. Eubanks Road /NC 86 Realignment <br />Notes from May 16, 2012 (Craig Benedict): This project was included in the <br />2008 secondary road budget, but due to economic constraints was only initiated <br />in the past year. The first attempt to alleviate problems at the intersection of <br />Eubanks Rd and Old 86 was to cut down a hill that limited sight distance, and <br />while this did offer slight improvement, the impact was lessened because the hill <br />could not be reduced significantly because of water, sewer and other utilities in <br />the area. After a series of charettes with residents and the Town of Carrboro, an <br />option was chosen that realigns Eubanks road about 400 feet to the north of its <br />current location. The project is currently in the right -of -way acquisition phase. <br />This realignment will not preclude a future extension of Eubanks Road across <br />Old 86. There will be no interruption to school access during construction, <br />projected to take a couple months and completed by the end of this year. <br />Current Meeting Notes (Craig Benedict and Chuck Edwards): NCDOT is in <br />right -of -way acquisition stage now and is conducting property appraisals. Right - <br />of -way acquisition for this project appears that it can be completed this winter. <br />The primary property owner is cooperating. The project is expected to be <br />constructed spring /summer 2013. Orange County Staff has expressed desire to <br />extend Eubanks farther to the West in the future to provide additional east -west <br />connectivity. The planned realignment will not prevent future westward extension <br />of the road. <br />This project is located in the northwest Carrboro Transition Area, and raises <br />some planning issues with their northern study area, for example, with the <br />1 <br />Return to Agenda <br />