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12 <br />Hollow Rock Access Area Master Plan September 2009 <br />This section of Pickett Road is a gravel, state - maintained roadway between Erwin <br />Road to the Trinity School entrance, about 1,000 feet south of the park property. The <br />gravel road provides access to two private residences. Durham County's 1991 <br />Thoroughfare Plan identifies Pickett Road as a "minor thoroughfare," and NCDOT <br />would like to pave the road, but has received resistance from adjoining landowners. <br />The future use of Pickett Road was one of the most significant issues that the <br />Committee dealt with in creating the master plan. The Committee considered the pros <br />and cons of closing a section of the road to through traffic. More details are provided <br />in the Findings of the Committee (Pages 10 -11) and in Appendix 5. <br />The site's close proximity to two schools (Forest View Elementary and Trinity School) <br />is an important asset. It will be important to facilitate pedestrian and bicycle access to <br />the site from both schools as well as from the adjoining residential neighborhoods. <br />The Solterra neighborhood shares the northernmost boundary of the parkland, and <br />several informal trails have been created into the park property from that subdivision. <br />One official pedestrian access point into the park would be desirable from Solterra. <br />Similarly, a pedestrian access point and trailhead would be desirable along the eastern <br />park boundary to connect with neighborhoods to the east. That access could be <br />established in the future when the intervening vacant property is developed. Multiple <br />informal access points into the Hollow Rock Access Area should be discouraged to <br />minimize undesirable impacts along the park boundaries. <br />E:3 <br />