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projected population for __ increase of approximately existing Plan. the year 2000 to 9,865 residents, an 21~ over the projection in the The policies embodied in the Proposed Plan remain essentially unchanged from the Existing Plan - preserving the rural character of the northern part of the township, providing for orderly residential, commercial, and industrial growth in the southern third of the township and protection of Eno River State Park and Duke Forest. The existing Land Use Plan is roughly split east-west, with agricultural residential in the northern two-thirds of the township and rural residential in the southern third. Ten year transition, those areas expected to change from more rural to urban in the next ten years, exists in small areas adjacent to Hillsborough. Township. Twenty year transition also exists along the Hillsborough Township line, along with areas in the US 70/I-85 corridor. Eno River State Park and Duke Forest are coded as Public Interest Districts. A Rural Neighborhood Activity Node is centered at US 70 and the 70- Bypass while the Underwoods Store Rural Neighborhood node extends into Eno Township. A Commercial Transition Activity node and a Commercial-Industrial Activity node radiate out from the US 70/I-85 corridor. The proposed map amendments make the following changes: 1. Resource protection area - mostly steep slopes and floodplains - are extended township wide. The classification indicated areas poorly suited for development purposes. 2. Agricultural areas are added township .wide to reflect areas enrolled in the Use Value Taxation Program. 3. Agricultural residential is pulled farther south through the center of the township as a means of additionally buffering Eno River State Park within the context of the existing body of the Land Use Plan. 4. Rural residential is pulled farther north through the Palmers Grove Area. 5. Ten year transition is expanded to include subdivisions along Lannie Drive and Old NC lo, many of which already receive urban services from Hillsborough. 6. Twenty year transition areas are expanded to include undeveloped land near Hillsborough surrounded by Ten year transition, land north of Southern Railroad in the Durham Urban Growth Area and existing commercial uses at the intersection of Pleasant Green Road and US 70, also in the Durham Urban Growth Area.