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Open the Public Hearing and Consider a Request to Close the Unmaintained and Unpaved Portion of the Public Right-of-Way Near Smith Avenue.
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Staff:
Department:
Lance Norris, Director
Public Works
Chris Roberts, Manager of Engineering and Infrastructure
Chris Jensen, Senior Engineer
Overview: The owner of 416 and 420 Smith Avenue has requested closing two short sections of unpaved and unmaintained public right-of-way located between 416 and 420 Smith Avenue and between 420 Smith Avenue and 550 Chase Park Road. Closing these sections of the public right-of-way will not deny access to adjacent properties. All adjacent properties have access to other public right-of-way. These portions of the public right-of-way are not in use, and neither the Town nor OWASA have a need for this right-of-way.
North Carolina General Statute Sec. 160A-299 sets out the process for closing public right-of-way (see copy attached). The steps set out in this report and the attached resolution follow the statutory requirements.
Recommendation(s):
That the Council open the Public Hearing and adopt the resolution to close the unmaintained and unpaved portions of the public right-of-way located between 416 and 420 Smith Avenue and between 420 Smith Avenue and 550 Chase Park Road.
Fiscal Impact/Resources: Impacts to future investments are unknown.
Key Issues:
* Once the rights-of-way are closed, the property will be divided equally among all adjacent property owners. Each property owner will be required to file a new plat to assume ownership. Town staff has communicated this information to each affected property owner, and all are in support of the right-of-way closure.
* All adjacent property owners have been notified through phone conversations, emails, physical signs placed in prominent places at the edges of the requested right-of-way closure areas, and the notice has been published in the Herald Sun for the past four consecutive weeks.
* Closing these sections...
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