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Onslow County launches $2 million program to identify and repair 'orphan' roads
Summary
County planning staff announced a new Orphan Roads initiative: a $2,000,000 loan program to identify subdivision roads that were never adopted into the NCDOT maintenance system, repair them to state standards and petition NCDOT to take them over.
Joseph Bauer, senior planner for Onslow County Planning and Development, said the county will host a kickoff meeting Sept. 10 to collect nominations and begin an inventory of so-called orphan roads — public streets designed to be state-maintained but never petitioned into the North Carolina Department of Transportation(NCDOT) system.
Bauer defined an orphan road as one “during the development of a subdivision that were designated to be public access ways” but that “failed to be petitioned to the state to be taken over in the state…
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