Title:
Public Hearing on Closing of a portion of right-of-way for Sample Road
Summary
ACTION:
1. Open public hearing to receive comments on the proposed closing of a portion of right-of-way for Sample Road
2. Close public hearing
3. Adopt the Order of Closing for a Portion of Sample Road Right-of-Way
Staff Contact: Ebenezer Gujjarlapudi, LUESA
Presentation: No
BACKGROUND/JUSTIFICATION:
As the current property owner, Mecklenburg County now petitions to close an 11.47-acre portion of the public right-of-way for Sample Road. The portion of said right-of-way currently provides access to the Latta Plantation Nature Preserve. The County is planning to construct a new visitors center closer to Beatties Ford Road. Because this would place the facility outside the existing gate, a new location for the gate is planned along Sample Road to make the new visitors center more secure. Before the gate can be relocated, rights-of-ways must be abandoned and/or closed including the currently petitioned 11.47-acre public right-of-way.
Mecklenburg County Land Use and Environmental Services Agency (LUESA) has determined that in its opinion the closing of the portion of said right-of-way of Sample Road would not deprive any individual owning land in the vicinity of said right-of-way of reasonable ingress and egress to their property and would not be contrary to the public interest. LUESA consulted Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department and the Mecklenburg County Fire Marshal’s office prior to formulating that opinion. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department and the Mecklenburg County Fire Marshal’s office reviewed the petition and have no objection to the closing of the portion of said right-of-way of Sample Road.
General Statute 153A-241 requires a public hearing and approval of the order for closing by the Board of County Commissioners in order to abandon and close a right-of-way in an unincorporated part of the County. The attached Exhibit A map sho...
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