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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 TRANSPORTATlON 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 a policy-making body, the Transportation
Advisory Committee, and a technical body, the Technical Coordinating Committee; and
WHEREAS, the DCHC MPO is preparing a Long-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 E-no 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 "Northem 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
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WHEREAS, the hallmark of sound planning is careful and deliberate consideration of
proposals through a process involving all interested parties, rather than the sort of last-minute rush to
judgment embodied in the inclusion of an inadequately studied and discussed "Option 7";
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Orange County Board of Commissioners that
the Board of Commissioners recommends to the Transportation Advisory Committee that "Option 7"
be deleted from consideration as a recommendation in the 2025 Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Metropolitan Planning Organization Long-Range Transportation Plan.
Upon motion of Commissioner , seconded by Commissioner ,
the foregoing resolution was adopted this the day of , 2002.
I, Donna Baker, Clerk to the Board of Commissioners for the County of Orange, North Carolina, DO
HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true copy of so much of the proceedings of said Board at a
meeting held on October 30, 2002 as relates in any way to the adoption of the foregoing and that said
proceedings are recorded in the minutes of said Board.
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said County, this day of , 2002.
Clerk to the Board of Commissioners