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<br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date:May 4, 2021 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 5-c <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Public Hearing on Renaming Braxton Bragg Court to Hydrangea Court <br /> <br />DEPARTMENT: Tax Administration <br /> <br /> <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br /> Petition to Rename a Public Road <br />Known as Braxton Bragg Court to <br />Hydrangea Court <br /> Map of the Road to be Renamed <br /> Response from NCDOT <br /> DRAFT Resolution <br /> <br /> <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Nancy Freeman, Tax Administrator and <br />Address Administrator, (919) 245-2726 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />PURPOSE: To conduct a public hearing on a petition to rename Braxton Bragg Court (State <br />Road 2212) to Hydrangea Court (see attached “Petition to Rename a Public Road Known as <br />Braxton Bragg Court to Hydrangea Court” and “Map of the Road to be Renamed”). <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: North Carolina General Statute § 153A-239.1 (NCGS §153A-239.1) grants a <br />county the authority to rename any road within a county as provided by the statute and by a <br />County Ordinance after the Board of County Commissioners has held a public hearing. The public <br />hearing must be held at least ten days prior to the renaming the road and a notice of the time, <br />place and subject matter of the hearing prominently posted at the courthouse, in at least two public <br />places in the township where the road is located, and the notice of the hearing must be published <br />in a newspaper of general circulation published in the County. The County may not change the <br />name given a road by the North Carolina Board of Transportation unless the Board of <br />Transportation agrees. <br /> <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners adopted an Ordinance entitled “An Ordinance to <br />Assign and Regulate Road Names, House and Building Numbers in Orange County” (the <br />“Addressing Ordinance”) on December 13, 2011. The Addressing Ordinance § 6-34(b)(2)(b) <br />allows property owners to request to rename a public road for personal reasons. In order to do <br />so, the property owners must provide a petition including the existing road name, the proposed <br />road name, the reason why the person(s) are requesting the name change, and the signatures <br />of seventy-five percent (75%) of those persons owning property addressed on the road in <br />question. The proposed road name must conform to the requirements of Addressing Ordinance <br />§ 6-34(b) and the name change may only be approved after a public hearing is held on the <br />matter as provided in Addressing Ordinance § 6-36 and the Board of County Commissioners <br />have approved the petition for a road name change. <br /> <br />1