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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 17, 2000 <br />Action Age op <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: NCDOT Petitions For Addition of Realigned Segments of Four (4) Roads to the <br />State Secondary Road Maintenance Program and Abandonment of Maintenance /Return of <br />Old Right -of -Way Alignments of Same Four (4) Roads to Property Owners <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. NCDOT Letters of Petition <br />2. Secondary Road Addition\Abandonment <br />Reports <br />3. Vicinity Maps <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Karen Lincoln, ext 2594 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough <br />732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill <br />968 -4501 <br />Durham <br />688 -7331 <br />Mebane <br />336- 227 -2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider NCDOT petitions for addition of realigned segments (new road <br />alignments) of four (4) roads to the State Secondary Road Maintenance Program and the <br />abandonment of maintenance /return of the old road segments (old road alignments that are no <br />longer being used) of the same four (4) roads to property owners. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Request: NCDOT requests Orange County to approve the new (realigned) segments of fou <br />North Carolina secondary roads for addition into the State Maintenance Program and to approve <br />the abandonment of state maintenance and rights -of -way containing the previous roadwa <br />alignments. NCDOT has realigned portions of these roads in accordance with the NCDO <br />Secondary Road Improvements Program, Paving Rural Unpaved Roads. The realignments were <br />necessary to improve safety or to obtain needed right -of -way in conjunction with paving those <br />roads. <br />Location: Portions of the following secondary roads are affected: <br />• Bane Road (SR 1337), Cheeks Township (.10 mi); <br />• Baldwin Road (SR 1554), Eno Township, (.62 mi.); <br />• Governor Burke Road (SR 1556 Ext.), Hillsborough Township (.05 mi.); <br />• Hall Dairy Road (SR 1525 Ext.), Little River Township (.06 mi.). <br />Development Process. Schedule. and Action: This is an administrative action needed t( <br />document NCDOT's responsibility for maintenance for those road segments that have bees <br />improved. Work has already occurred, and Bane Road, Governor Burke Road and Hall Dairy Roa( <br />have already been paved. Baldwin Road is scheduled to be paved. The Board must decide <br />whether or not to petition the State 1) to add the new road segments to the State Maintenance <br />Program and 2) to approve the removal of the rights -of -way for the old alignments from thi <br />