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11 <br />Hollow Rock Access Area Master Plan September 2009 <br />The initial survey, completed in 2007, confirmed that the area where Erwin Road <br />crosses New Hope Creek has a long- standing tradition, rich in prehistory and history <br />for indigenous and Euro- American settlement. Additional survey in 2008 identified <br />areas of the park that should be restricted from development and /or protected during <br />facility construction. Information from these surveys was conveyed to the Hollow <br />Rock master plan committee and incorporated into the master plan. <br />Committee members participating in charrette design workshop <br />Access and Transportation Issues <br />The site is highly accessible to residents of southwest Durham and from Chapel Hill <br />via Erwin Road, Pickett Road, and other links to US 15 -501. Direct access to the <br />property could be from Erwin Road or from Pickett Road, which bisects the site. <br />Having portions of the park on both sides of Pickett Road not only presents more <br />complexity for locating entrances and parking, it also creates public safety issues. The <br />1991 New Hope Corridor Open Space Master Plan envisioned a small parking area for <br />this site on the west side of Pickett Road. That master plan did not, however, <br />anticipate there being parkland on both sides of Pickett Road. <br />7 <br />