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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: May 20, 2003 Action Agenda Item No.p SUBJECT: Petition for Addition of Subdivision Roads to the State Maintenance Program DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No ATTACHMENT(S): 1. Vicinity Map for Richmond Hills Subdivision 2. Vicinity Map for Hyde -Away Forest Subdivision 3. Petition letters & Secondary Road Addition Reports for Buck Walter Lane, Richmond Hills Subdivision Alice Miller Court, Richmond Hills Subdivision Cherry Street, Hyde -Away Forest Subdivision INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Lincoln, ext. 2594 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732 -8181 Chapel Hill 968 -4501 Durham 688 -7331 Mebane (336)227 -2031 PURPOSE: To consider petitions to add three roads in Orange County subdivisions to the State - maintained Secondary Road System. BACKGROUND: Buck Walter Lane, Alice Miller Court: Residents on Buck Walter Lane (2 homes) and Alice Miller Court (13 homes) in Richmond Hills Subdivision have petitioned the North Carolina Department of Transportation ( NCDOT) to accept maintenance responsibilities for those roads. Buck Walter Lane, which provides access for Alice Miller Court, is located off the east side of Richmond Road in Cheeks Township. The roads were platted in Phase I of Richmond Hills Subdivision, approved by the Orange County Board of Commissioners in August 2000. Cherry Street: Residents of Cherry Street (3 homes) have petitioned NCDOT to accept maintenance responsibilities. Cherry Street, located in Hyde -Away Forest subdivision (recorded in July 1969) off the east side of Mill Creek Road, Cheeks Township. Cherry Street also provides access for five (5) homes from Tanya Drive. NCDOT is working with property owners on Tanya Drive to obtain right -of -way in order to make improvements to Tanya drive and add it to the State Maintenance Program. NCDOT is also working with citizens on Glenn Street to remove obstructions in the right -of -way in order for NCDOT to accept maintenance responsibilities for that road. Glenn Street also provides access to Tanya Drive in Hyde -Away Forest subdivision. NCDOT has investigated these requests (please refer to attached Secondary Road Addition Reports) and has submitted the petitions to the Board of Commissioners for its review and approval. The Board must take an administrative action to approve the petitions to NCDOT in order for NCDOT to accept the roads into the State Maintenance Program. FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no direct financial impact associated with this decision item. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Administration recommends that the Board approve the requests to add the above named roads to the State Secondary Road Maintenance Program.