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,i • to avoid overcrowding of land, prevent fire, panic, and other dangers; • to insure that water and sewage systems be safe and adequate; • to prevent flood damage; • to facilitate an orderly use of land; • to insure the proper legal description and monumenting of subdivided land; and • to encourage the proper management of Orange County's natural resources. When land is divided and a road is built that is exempt from County regulatory authority, the roads may prevent development of an interconnected County road network. If those roads are subsequently accepted as public roads as part of the State Maintained System, further subdivision of land may proceed in piecemeal fashion, destroying the potential for well-planned development. OUTBoard Subcommittee A subcommittee of the Orange Unified Transportation Board (OUTBoard) reviewed issues concerning petitions for State maintenance of subdivision roads, and determined that the same issues exist regardless of the way in which the road came into being. The subcommittee recommended the same treatment for all petitions for addition of a subdivision road to the State Maintained System. When the BOCC approves a major subdivision in which the roads are proposed to be public roads, the Board has reviewed the subdivision's street system, and intends for those roads to become NCDOT maintained roads. Therefore, the BOCC would recommend that the North Carolina Board of Transportation approve such petitions for addition of roads to the State Maintained System. In all other cases, when the BOCC receives Petitions for Addition for roads that the County has not approved as public roads through the subdivision process, the petitions should be referred to the OUTBoard for review. Examples of such roads are subdivision roads platted/created in one of the following ways: • Developments in which all lots are greater than 10 acres that are exempt from local subdivision regulation per N.C. State Statute §153A-335; • Major subdivisions approved with private roads; • Minor subdivisions; • Subdivisions platted prior to October 1, 1975. The OUTBoard would consider whether the subject subdivision is in a location where the County desires future connectivity between developments or existing public roads, or where there is potential to provide connectivity between existing developments. OUTBoard Recommendation If the OUTBoard determines that the County desires road connectivity, the OUTBoard would recommend that the BOCC endorse the petition(s) for approval by the North Carolina Board of Transportation (NCBOT) if the petitioners submit a plat for recordation showing: 1. Right-of-way extended to allow connectivity; 2. Irons have been set at the edge of right-of-way to mark the "new" corners of the lots;