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Beaufort County Staff outlines dirt-road five-year plan, proposes ordinance to formalize right-of-way
Summary
County staff told the Beaufort County Transportation Committee the county has improved hundreds of dirt roads since 1994, but at current funding rates hundreds remain unpaved; staff will send an ordinance to County Council to formalize right-of-way solicitations from property owners on legacy roads.
Brian, county transportation staff, updated the Beaufort County Transportation Committee on the county’s long-running dirt-roads program and the ordinance staff plans to send to County Council to formalize right-of-way acquisition.
The presentation said the county has improved 317 roads totaling about 105 miles since 1994 and that current funding—about $2 million a year drawn from the county’s vehicle-registration “tag” program—now yields roughly 0.75 miles of paving per year. Staff told the committee that, after excluding roads where property owners have asked not to be paved, roughly 170 roads (about 55 miles) remain unimproved and that 32 of the roads evaluated in the most recent study were classified as…
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