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23 <br />Attachment Four <br />Synopsis of Major Transportation Corridor (MTC) Overlay District <br />review and adoption: <br />BACKGROUND: <br />• Originally presented during a joint PUBLIC HEARING on January 23, 1984 (please see <br />attached minutes and agenda face sheet for the public hearing). <br />• At their November 15, 1983 regular meeting, Board members requested that staff prepare <br />an overlay district for the I -40 corridor providing for sign limitations, landscaping <br />requirements, and setbacks by the January 23, 1984 public hearing. Apparently similar <br />overlay districts had been established in Durham County, the City of Durham, and were <br />being reviewed in Wake County at the time of the request. <br />INTENT: <br />• As indicated by staff during the public hearing, the overall intent and purpose of the MTC <br />was to: <br />`... protect the attractiveness and orderly development of land and <br />enhance those natural and environmental features which constitute <br />important physical, aesthetic, recreational, and economic assets along <br />major transportation corridors through the provision of a set of <br />development standards and regulations far application to public and <br />private development of lane adjacent to the corridors' <br />• Staff indicated that major transportation corridors served as both: `movers of traffic and <br />as entranceways to the County from outside areas'. The rationale for establishing the <br />district was that these corridors establish an indicator of the quality of life in the County <br />as well as the efficiency and safety of traffic movement through the area <br />• The MTC was also seen as a potential marketing tool to attract and accommodate <br />different types of development that: `often depends on the capacity of the thoroughfare <br />system and the character and quality of development along the major corridors' <br />• Ancillary benefits associated with the adoption of the proposed overlay district included: <br />noise reduction, the preservation of existing aesthetic quality of the County, and the <br />protection of existing natural and environmental features. <br />ISSUES: <br />• In reviewing the minutes one (1) of the many concerns expressed for establishing the <br />MTC was over the possible location and expansion of major interstates through the <br />County (i.e. Interstate 40). Staff did not want to see the `mass clearing' of interstate <br />corridors and believed that the County ought to take some measure to protect existing, <br />mature, forest along proposed transportation routes. <br />
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