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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 19, 2002 <br />Action Agenda , <br />Item No. '~- / <br />SUBJECT: Ingress Easement to CCB at 118 N. Churton Street <br />DEPARTMENT: Purchasing and Central PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Services <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Easement <br />Annotated Survey <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Pam Jones, (919) 245-2652 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider granting a permanent 20-foot wide ingress easement along the north <br />side of the recently acquired Graham Building at 118 N. Churton Street, Hillsborough to Central <br />Carolina Bank (CCB). <br />BACKGROUND: One year and a half after the Board of Commissioners approved the <br />purchase by Orange County of the property at 112 and 118 N. Churton Street, the transaction <br />has been closed. The bulk of the time has been consumed with getting environmental <br />clearances from the State after the Phase I Environmental Assessment revealed a leaking <br />underground storage tank at the Graham building lot (118 N. Churton Street). The tank is now <br />gone, and the contaminated soil has been removed. There is some residual groundwater <br />contamination. However, that will not pose a problem to Orange County's current or future use <br />of the property since both buildings on the property are served by Hillsborough public water. A <br />notice of restriction related to the use of groundwater has been recorded and "PIN'ed" to the <br />title to the Graham building lot. <br />In addition to the environmental cleanup, the acquisition of the property by the County allowed a <br />number of title problems revealed by the title search and several other issues revealed by the <br />survey of the property to be cleaned up. Importantly, an encroachment into the 112 N. Churton <br />Street property by a deed for the Sawyer Building has been removed, and a number of <br />easements that ran to and from Central Carolina Bank property and Hillsborough Savings Bank <br />property have been eliminated. Further, the deed of the property to Orange County conveys to <br />the County both a 16-feet wide permanent alley and easement along the east side of the <br />property to King Street and also two permanent parking places that lie east of the alley. The <br />County had been leasing these parking spaces from CCB. <br />As part of this transaction and particularly as it relates to the various easements, CCB wants to <br />continue the use of the 20-foot wide ingress easement along the north side of the Graham <br />