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ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING & INSPECTIONS DEPARTMENT ~q <br />Craig N. Benedict, AICP, Director <br />co°atP °l ®'e <br />Comprehensive Planning P 306E Revere Road <br />~` , <br />(919) 245-2589 ° s ~ P O Box 8181 <br />(919) 644-3002 (FAX) ~. Hillsborough, <br />www.co.orange.nc.us ~~„ a ,°<~°° North Carolina, 27278 <br />MEMORANDUM <br />Date: June 23, 2004 <br />To: Eddie Kirk, Planner II <br />CC: Craig Benedict, Planning Director <br />Robert Davis, Orange County Current Planning Supervisor <br />From: Karen Lincoln, Transportation Planner <br />Subject: Comments Regarding Davi-Net Subdivision Application <br />I would like to submit the following notes regarding the preliminary plan for Phase One <br />of Davi-Net subdivision located on Old NC 10 (SR 1710) in Eno Township. <br />An ideal site distance triangle at the intersection of Old NC 10 and Mt. Herman <br />Church Road would be 150' X 150'. <br />Old NC 10 is number two of the primary priority routes listed in the Orange County <br />Bicycle Plan adopted in 1999. A February 3`d, 2004, amendment to Section 1 V-B-3- <br />a-1 of the Orange County Subdivision Regulations states that the subdivider "shall <br />provide any improvements or other means to ensure construction recommended" in <br />adopted plans or corridor studies "such as facilities for bicycles, sidewalks, and <br />public transportation". <br />The bicycle plan recommends a roadway cross-section of two 12' lanes with 4' <br />paved shoulders to accommodate bicycles. <br />Old NC 10, from New Hope Church Road to US Highway 70, is part of an east-west <br />collector system from Alamance County line to US Highway 70 in eastern Orange <br />County near the Durham County line. The system includes Bradshaw Quarry Road, <br />Arthur Minnis Road, New Hope Church Road, and that portion of Old NC 10. The <br />subject portion of Old NC 10 is classified as a major thoroughfare in the Durham- <br />Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Area thoroughfare plan study dated <br />September 1996. That study recommends atwo-lane shoulder section. One of the <br />conditions of approval for the concept plan was to "Show proposed dedication of an <br />additional 5 feet of right-of-way, or 35 feet from C/L of existing R/W, whichever is <br />greater along Old NC 10 (SR 1710) on the Preliminary Plan". Seventy feet is <br />adequate for the proposed cross section (two-lane shoulder section). There are no <br />improvements planned for Old NC 10. <br />