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ORANGE COL°IQTY BOARD OF CO't411'tSSSIONERS A RESOLUTION OF IIv'TENT TO COIv`I~`ECT OR'.4SA PUBLIC RATER A?~`D SEii'ER SERVICE TO THE PROPOSED NEiV SOLID BASTE AZANAGE?•'LEA'T OPERATIONS CENTER, TO BE LOCATED LN THE RUR4I. BUFFER ii'hereas, extension of public Hater and seiner sen~ce into the Rural Buffer is governed by the Mater R: Sewer AQanagement, Planning and Boundary Agreement (herein ]monm as the Agreement); and ii'hereas, The Toum of Carrboro, The Toun of Chapel Hill, The 7oum of Hillsborough, Orange County, and the Orange Water and Seu•er Authority (0\NASA) are parties to the Agreement; and R'hareas, Orange County intends to construct a new Solid Waste 1\4anagement Department Operations Center on Orange County Tax Parcel 7 16.27C, a 4.05 acre parcel ofland ot~-ned by Orange Count}; and \Vhereas, the parcel contains a site with Entironmental Healdt Division approval for a septic system suitable far a q~pical 6,500-sq. ft. office building; and R'hereas, the Operations Center is planned to include a community meeting room and educational facility that would eenerate sufficient tdsitors/occupants, perhaps up to 75 at one time, as to likely overburden the available septic system site; and ii'hereas, the parcel on which the Operations Center is to be constructed is located in the Rural Buffer of the .Joint Planning Area, located in the Long Term Interest Area of OiNASA as described in the Agreement, borders and is directly adjacent to the current Orange County Land&Il, which is located in the Town of Chapel Hill's Transition 4rea of the Joint Plannine Area and located in O\N.ASA`s Primary Service .Area; and R'hereas, the parcel on which the Operations Center is to be consW cted is situated such that an extension of public water and sewer sendce to sense it would touch no other Hon-County Domed property and thus not provide any likelihood or opportunity for further extension oI these sen~ces into the Rural Buffer, and R'hereas, the Agreement does not prescribe the method by which public water and/or sewer service is to be extended to serve an essential public facility located in the Rural Buffer. NOiN, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that Orange County hereby notifies the 7o~vn of Carrboro; The Toum of Chapel Hill, The Toum of Hillsborough, and OiNASA that it intends to apply to OWASA for public water and sewer service to sense only Orange County Tax Parcel 7..1 S 27C and that this application will be made under the proidsions of the AS~reement authorizing public water and sewer service in the Rural Buffer to sense an essential public facility BET[ FLiRTHER RESOLVED that Orange County welcomes comments, respectfully requested to be received on or before June 7, 3004, from The'Iou•n of Carrboro, The Toum of Chapel Hill, The Toun of Hillsborough, and O\NASA regazding Orange County's intention to seine Orange County Tax Parce] 7 16 ,37C. utith public water and sewer prodded by OVIASA ATTEST: Do Baker Cterk to the Board of Commissioners This, the 17tH day of A'Iay, 2005