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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: May 20, 2003 Action Agenda Item No. ~' SUBJECT Approval of the Orange/Chatham Boundary DEPARTMENT: Land Records/GIS PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): 3/17/03 Letter from NC Geodetic Survey Exhibit "A" Boundary Line Description 2 Preliminary Survey Maps of Boundary NCGS §153A -18 INFORMATION CONTACT: Roscoe Reeve, ext 2501 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough Chapel Hill Durham Mebane 732-8181 968-4501 688-7331 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To provide formal approval of a survey map and boundary description of the line between Orange County and Chatham County, as provided by the North Carolina Geodetic Survey. BACKGROUND: Action recommended by County staff at this meeting is simply a statutorily required formal step to approve the location and description of the boundary line between Orange and Chatham. North Carolina Geodetic Survey Office staff have recommended that the two boards of commissioners approve the plat and description of the boundary (see attached letter). Staffs from both counties have reviewed the documents prepared by the Geodetic Survey and have found them to be consistent with the changes to the boundary that were made in 1989. The map and description reflect the county line as both jurisdictions have observed it during the past fourteen years. On August 15, 1989 the Board of Commissioners approved a new boundary description between Orange and Chatham counties drawn by staff on an orthophoto. This process was originally permitted under local legislation and has since been approved by the General Assembly with statewide applicability under §NCGS 153A-18(c) (extract attached). The Chatham County Board of Commissioners approved the same boundary on October 7, 1991. The State Office of Geodetic Survey has now placed monuments (physically, on the ground) on that line, drawn a legal description and has submitted it to the counties for board approval. The Orange County Land Records/GIS office has reviewed the description and map and finds the proposed boundary to be the same as the one approved in 1989, subject to a conversion from scaled to surveyed coordinates and coordinate values from NAD 27 to NAD 83 (the proper adjustment needed to reflect current state plane survey standards). If the BOCC approves the proposed description and map (Chatham County Commissioners approved them on April 21, 2003) it will be submitted to the General Assembly for adoption by the State of the county boundary between Orange and Chatham. Upon formal General