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C.O`6 <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 />ERCD Advisory Boards and Staff Revisions to NCSE Attachment #6 <br />Plan and referenced in the Flexible Development option of the <br />Subdivision Regulations. Views from the identified corridors are <br />considered conservation areas in the Flexible Development <br />standards. <br />The HPC is currently evaluating the corridors shown on the 1981 <br />map to determine which road seaments still merit__ scenic <br />designation The HPC has also been workina to develoa a new <br />heritage/scenic corridor proaram As development continues to <br />occur rural roads and their associated agricultural vistas may <br />become compromised unless additional measures are adopted. <br />The North Carolina Scenic Bvwavs <br />Program offers another farm of <br />recognition to special road ~~~ <br />corridors that contribute to the Ne S~E~~ <br />visual character of a community. <br />Honorary in nature• there is no ~~ V Y AY <br />regulatory component to the 1.~ ~ y <br />program nor anY preemptive <br />development restrictions. Three <br />North Carolina Scenic Bvwavs pass through Orange County-the <br />Colonial Heritage Bvwav the Football Road and the Scots-Welsh <br />Bvwav (See Map 6-3 in the Summary section of this Element.) <br />HIGHWAY MARKER PROGRAM <br />The North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program was <br />established in 1935, based on the marker program in Virginia <br />established -in 1926. The Department of Cultural Resources' <br />Research Branch and the Department of Transportation's Traffic <br />Engineering Branch, Division of Highways administer the program <br />jointly. Eligibility is subject to specific criteria based on state <br />significance. Unlike the recognition of historic structures or <br />archaeological sites, the markers typically commemorate important <br />individuals who have been dead for twenty-five or more years. <br />Today there are more than 1,400 state markers throughout North <br />Carolina, at least one in every county. Orange County currently has <br />twenty-four markers, including those within the towns of Chapel <br />Hill and Hillsborough.s <br />s The twenty-four North Carolina State Highway Historical Markers located in Orange <br />County include: G-3 Thomas Burke; G-4 William Hooper 1742-1790; G-9 Archibald Debow <br />Murphey; G-10 Francis Nash; G-11 Thomas Ruffin; G-16 Thomas Burke; G-19 Edmund <br />Fanning; F-23 Regulators Hanged; G-26 Thomas H. Benton; G-33 Occaneechi; G-37, G-38, <br />G-39 Bingham School; G-40 William A. Graham; G-48 Paper Mill; G-64 Moses A. Curtis; G-. <br />66 Hughes Academy; G-84 Old Eno Church and Cemetery; G-88 North Carolina Society of <br />the Cincinnati; G-90 St. Mary's Chapel; G-92 University of N.C. at Chapel Hill; G-100 <br />Harriet M. Berry 1877-1940; G-103 J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton; G-108 James Hogg 1972- <br />1804; G-1 15 Elizabeth Keckly ca. 1820-1907; G-122 Hart's Mill. <br />O,-a.v>~-~GauvLty Go-m~r~ehen~aN~P~ Public Hearing Draff 5-6-08 Page 6- 46 <br />