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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: September 20, 2005 <br />Action Agenda „ <br />Item No. ~~ <br />SUBJECT: Petition far Abandonment of a Portion of Pleasant Green Community Center Road <br />from the NC Secondary Road Maintenance Program <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) ON <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1, Map of Pleasant Green Community Center Road <br />2, Petition Letter & Secondary Road Abandonment <br />Investigation Report <br />3, N,C,G,S. §136-63 Change or abandonment of roads <br />4. N.C,G,S. §153A-241 Closing public roads or easements <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Karen Lincoln, ext, 2594 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill <br />Durham <br />Mebane <br />968-4501 <br />688-7331 <br />(336)227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider a petition to abandon a 0,27 mile portion of SR 1571, Pleasant Green <br />Community Center Road, from the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) <br />Secondary Road Maintenance Program. <br />BACKGROUND: Property owners along Pleasant Green Community Center Road, Eno Township, <br />have petitioned the NCDOT to remove to a 0.27 mile unpaved portion of that road from the NCDOT <br />Secondary Road Maintenance Program, The property owners wish to petition Orange County to <br />close that portion of the road to the public because of illegal dumping that has proliferated on <br />various properties adjacent to the road. Three properties are adjacent to the right-of-way proposed <br />for abandonment. The two properties on the east side of Pleasant Green Community Center Road <br />take access from a Hedgerow Lane, a private road, off Stepping Stone Lane, which is also a <br />private road. The 10.01-acre lot adjacent to the west side of Pleasant Green Community Center <br />Road has frontage on Cole Mill Road, <br />The State Statues allow counties to permanently close any public road within the county "except <br />public roads or easements under the control and supervision of the Department of Transportation". <br />Before petitioning the County to close the road, the road must first be removed from the State's <br />Secondary Road Maintenance Program. <br />NCDOT has investigated the request (please refer to attached Secondary Road Abandonment <br />Investigation Report), and has submitted the petition to the Board of Commissioners for its review. <br />The Board may petition the North Carolina Board of Transportation to abandon Pleasant Green <br />Community Center Road from NCDOT maintenance "when the best interest of the people of the <br />county will be served thereby". <br />