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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 2l, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. C.1 <br />SUBJECT: Order to Close a 0.27-Mile Portion of SR 1571, Pleasant Green Community <br />Center Road <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) Yes <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1. Order Closing aRight-of-Way on SR 1571, Karen Lincoln, (919) 245-2594 <br />Pleasant Green Community Center Road, Craig Benedict, (919) 245-2592 <br />Between SR 1569, Cole Mill Road, and <br />Pleasant Green Community Center <br />2, Certification of Posting Signs <br />3. Affidavit of Mailing _ <br />4, Copy of Legal Ad <br />PURPOSE: To hear all interested persons who appear with respect to whether closing a 0,27- <br />mile portion of SR 1571, Pleasant Green Community Center Road, from Cole Mill Road to the <br />Pleasant Green Community Center, would be detrimental to the public interest or to any <br />individual property rights, and consider adopting an order to close the road. <br />BACKGROUND: Property owners along SR 1571, Pleasant Green Community Center Road, <br />have petitioned the NCDOT to remove a 0,27-mile portion of that road from the State <br />Maintained System, and desire that the County permanently close the public right-of-way for <br />that segment of the road, Petitioners cited repeated illegal dumping in the public right-of-way <br />that creates safety hazards along the road and costs to remove the dumped debris as their <br />reasons for wishing to close the road, The Board, at its meeting on October 3, 2005, endorsed <br />resolutions to request that the NCDOT abandon an unpaved 0,27-mile portion of SR 1571, <br />Pleasant Green Community Center Road, from the State Maintained System and to declare the <br />Board's intent to partially close the road. <br />Staff has completed the following procedures prescribed by the Narth Carolina General Statute <br />§153A-241: <br />1, Staff posted a notice of the closing and ~ublic hearing in four (4) prominent places alone <br />the road. This was done on October 28 ,about three (3) weeks prior to the public <br />hearing and prior to the annual Pleasant Green United Methodist Church event that was <br />held November 5th at the Pleasant Green Community Center. <br />2, Staff published the resolution declaring the County's intent to close the road in the <br />Chapel Hill Herald and the News of Orange for three (3) successive weeks before the <br />public hearing, on November 2, November 9, and November 16, 2005, <br />lla. nni~m:i~<usi~a Pl vnir Lir-^liDlD.N)±I''ulaie H<~vp:.N-,~~77A~o;. niGiu.l''nnmunil)C ~rR~yurlinlt'1<uin},~Sltlt i'L:a !'.tpi drn: <br />