Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
14 <br />1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />29 <br />30 <br />31 <br />32 <br />33 <br />34 <br />35 <br />36 <br />37 <br />38 <br />39 <br />40 <br />41 <br />42 <br />43 <br />44 <br />45 <br />46 <br />47 <br />48 <br />49 <br />50 <br />51 <br />52 <br />ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br />MINUTES <br />APRIL s, aooo <br />MEMBERS PRESENT: Leo Allison (Chair), Karen Barrows, Nicole Gooding-Ray, Cranford <br />Goodwin, Barry Katz, Howard McAdams, Jr., Rachel Preston, James <br />Selkirk, Bob Strayhorn, and Runyon Woods <br />MEMBERS ASSENT: Lynne Holtkamp, Onie Lea (excused) <br />STAFF PRESENT: Craig N. Benedict (Planning Director), Planners Robert Davis and Eddie <br />Kirk, Christina Moon, Karen Lincoln, and Administrative Assistant <br />Joanna Bradshaw <br />AGENDA ITEM #1: CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL <br />Chair Allison called the meeting to order. <br />AGENDA ITEM #2: CONSIDERATION OF ADDITIONS TO AGENDA <br />There were no additions to the agenda. <br />AGENDA ITEM #3: APPROVAL OF MINUTES - March 1, 2000 <br />MOTION: Strayhorn moved approval of the March 1, 2000 Orange County Planning Board <br />minutes. Seconded by Barrows. <br /> <br />a. Orange County Private Road Standards <br />Lincoln made the presentation. The proposal is to reduce the maximum number of lots allowed on private <br />roads. Currently, the maximum number of lots allowed on a private road is 25, and the staff would like to <br />reduce it to ten. There are three classifications of private roads - C has one to three lots, B has four to <br />nine lots, and anything over ten is A. The staff is doing away with class C, and is proposing that class B <br />have one to five lots. The staff is also proposing to lower the travel way width from 12 feet to ten feet. <br />Class A would have six to ten lots and would be an 18-foot travel way. More than ten lots would be <br />allowed on the private road if some natural resource or rural characteristic was enhanced. <br />Barrows asked whom the developer would go to in order to contest the ruling. Lincoln said that the <br />developer would go to the boards. <br />Benedict said that the maximum number of lots on a private road has been addressed clearly in the rural <br />preservation standards. The approval process would be the same as it is currently. He said that after ten <br />lots on a private road, there would have to be some significant natural feature enhanced by the private <br />road to allow any additional lots. <br />Strayhorn said that he does not totally agree with making exceptions. <br />Lincoln read the list of exceptions for justifying a private road with more than 10 lots. <br />Allison also has a problem with making exceptions and reducing the travel way for a class B road. <br />