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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: May 4, 2021 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 5-e <br /> SUBJECT: Public Hearing on Renaming Service Road SR1223 to Diversity Drive <br /> DEPARTMENT: Tax Administration <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> • Renaming a Public Road Known as Nancy T. Freeman, Tax Administrator <br /> Service Road SR1223 to Diversity and Address Administrator, (919) 245- <br /> Drive - Attachment A 2735 <br /> PURPOSE: To conduct a public hearing on the renaming of Service Road SR1223 to Diversity <br /> Drive (see attached "Renaming of a Public Road Known as Service Road SR1223 to Diversity <br /> Drive - Attachment A"). <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. <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 allows the <br /> Addressing Administrator to rename a road according to § 6-34(b)(2)(a) which provides, <br /> "Road names may be changed by the Address Administrator when the road name is a <br /> duplicate of another road name within a designated postal area or within Orange County <br /> and interferes with the accurate dispatch of emergency service or postal delivery. In <br /> addition, a road name may be changed when one road has two commonly used names or <br /> where portions of what appears to be the same road has two or more names." <br /> The Addressing Administrator is considering a road name change of Service Road SR1223 to <br /> Diversity Drive (see attached "Renaming of a Public Road Known as Service Road SR1223 to <br /> Diversity Drive - Attachment A"). Orange County Emergency Services has requested that Service <br />