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7 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS A RESOLUTION TO PROVIDE THE DURHAM-CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE WITH A RECOMMENDATION TO EXCLUDE "OPTION 7" - THE NORTHEAST/ NORTHWEST LOOP FROM THE DURHAM-CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO LONG-RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLAN (LRTP) (LRTP RESOLUTION B) WHEREAS, Orange County participates in regional transportation planning as a member of the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (DCHC MPO); and WHEREAS, the DCHC MPO is composed of apolicy-making body, the Transportation Advisory Committee, and a technical body, the Technical Coordinating Committee; and WHEREAS, the DCHC MPO is preparing along-Range Transportation Plan, and has released the Preferred Option of the Plan for public comment; and WHEREAS, at the Transportation Advisory Committee meeting on September 18, 2002, the Transportation Advisory Committee directed that the Highway Trust Fund projects known as the Northeast and Northwest Loops, or Eno Drive, be removed from consideration; and . WHEREAS, at the Transportation Advisory Committee meeting on October 23, 2002, a recommendation from the Transportation Coordinating Committee referenced as "Option 7" was proposed as a replacement for the Northeast and Northwest Loops; and WHEREAS, "Option 7" is depicted on the map labeled Attachment A and more fully described as follows: "The southern segment runs from US 70 to I-85, and the northern segment runs from I-85 to Roxboro Road via Old Oxford, Snow Hill and includes new alignment to Roxboro Road north of Snow Hill." and WHEREAS, the terminus of "Option 7" at Snow Hill Road and Roxboro Road (US 501) is on approximately the same alignment as the "Northern Freeway" proposed in the 1989 Draft DCHC Thoroughfare Plan; and WHEREAS, the general path of the "Northern Freeway" paralleled Mason Road and St. Mary's Road in Durham County; entered Orange County immediately south of Ebenezer Church Road; ran southward between Pleasant Green Road and the Durham County line until it intersected Cole Mill Road; and then ran southwesterly crossing Pleasant Green Road, the Eno River, US 70, I-85, Old NC 10, and "New" NC 86 before interchanging with I-40; and WHEREAS, the "Northern Freeway" is depicted on the map labeled Attachment B; and WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of County Commissioners strongly opposed the "Northern Freeway" in 1989 because of its potential impacts on prime forest land, the Eno River State Park, the Eno River, existing neighborhoods, and the Rural Buffer; and WHEREAS, "Option 7" provides the opportunity through its proposed alignment and terminus to correspond to a future loop or freeway into Orange County along the Mason Road/ St. Mary's Road corridor attendant with the aforementioned impacts; and