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~~ plan; (2) Water and Sewer extensions proposed by OWASA; (3) Proposed greenway and park system based upon environmentally constrained wetland and slope areas and existing urban parks; and (4) Major uses identified for the Duke Forest Tracts in the area This was used to come up with the Draft Preliminary Land Use Plan. Collins noted the questionnaires from the November 13, 1985 public information meeting, information in terms of natural features, e.g., slopes, soils, vegetation, etc., the County's current goals and objectives from the Orange County Land Use Plan and those from the Chapel Hill comprehensive plan. The framework for this plan is, again, a comprehensive open space and parks system. The dark green areas on the map correspond to areas of greater than 15°s slope, floodplains, wetlands and areas that we consider to be constraints to development. They would farm a greenway system throughout the whole Joint Planning Area and. along the greenway system would be a system of neighborhood and community parks and perhaps a district park. Associated with that open space system would be the buffer alang I 40 as required by the Major Transportation Corridor provisions of the Orange County Zoning Ordinance. Finally, the open space system includes Duke Forest and State (UNC) owned lands. Collins then addressed the location of residential areas. High density areas (6 to 13 units per acre) were located near interstate interchanges or the intersections of collector and arterial streets. Other locational criteria employed were areas of less than 7 1/2~ slope and clear of vegetation. Areas of suburban residential development ( 2 to 5 units per acre) were located primarily in forested areas, slopes ranged from 0 to 15%, and urban services were available or projected to be shortly. Low density residential areas (1 unit or less per acre) occupied the remaining portions of the Joint Planning Area outside transition areas and open space and agricultural areas. Collins then addressed the location of non-residential uses. These were to be focused on the following activity nodes: (1) Commercial/Industrial Transition node along proposed Homestead Road extension east of Old NC 86 intersection - This node proposed by the Carrboro Planning Staff should be composed of a sizable industrial core, a medium sized area of commercial and Office/Insti-- tutional to the southeast, and an extensive area of urban residential to the west around Calvander. (2) Limited expansion of the existing Rural Neighborhood .node at Blackwood Station - This node would be expanded to permit more commercial uses, but all development would continue to be on wells and septic tanks. (3) Rural Industrial Node at I-40/New Hope Church Road - would allow light industrial and research uses with on-site water and sewer.