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68 <br /> fifty-one are in mobile home parks. Those parks cover less <br /> than 0.5% of the area's total land area. <br /> Circulation <br /> A modified version of the North Carolina Highway Functional road <br /> Classification system is used to describe the County's <br /> describes p <br /> network. This system des arts of the network based on , <br /> The most important roads, <br /> mobility and access factors. the shortest travel <br /> interstates and arterial roads, provide <br /> time between activity centers. Roads of lesser importance, <br /> collector roads, do not -provide as good a service function, <br /> but do provide large areas with access to major roads. Local <br /> roads function in the most limited service capacity, but in <br /> the aggregate serve to provide large land areas with access <br /> to the collector and arterial systems- <br /> In part because of the area's physical boundaries, the <br /> circulation system for Chapel Hill Township north of the JPA <br /> from either the Joint Planning Area <br /> cannot be separated out north. <br /> to the south or Hillsborough and Eno Townships to the no1/4 <br /> At its most narrow north-south Point the region is Only <br /> mili wide and nowhere exceeds 1 1/2 mile wide. While all <br /> major north-south routes between Hillsborough .and Chapel Hill <br /> pass through the area, few east-west roads traverse the h the <br /> area. <br /> There are no major intersections in the area.' althoug <br /> jvnction , of the collector road New Hope Church Road (SR1723) <br /> NC86 lies just to the south within the , <br /> and the arterial road <br /> Joint Planning Area. <br /> Agriculture <br /> forest lands make up only a <br /> While agricultural and managed <br /> eals total land area, they nonetheless <br /> small portion of the area of the rural character much of <br /> provide an important a pressures <br /> and <br /> the area has. With the increasing development <br /> radiating from. Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, <br /> Durham, however, it is a comp onent that is rapidly declining. <br /> , <br /> The Orange County use value taxation program, begun in the <br /> property meets certain <br /> early 198016, allows land owners whose <br /> t management criteria to have <br /> agricultural production or foxes the higher <br /> that property taxed at its use value rather than <br /> in program enrollment can give some <br /> idea of the trends in farmland conversion taking place. ' in <br /> the five year period fr om 1982 to 1987, the amount land- in <br /> Township north of the JPA enrolled in t57$rogam Chapel Hill T 94 acres, a drop of For <br /> declined from 875 acres to 4 cultural, as Opposed to <br /> as agri <br /> land in the program classified precipitous, <br /> managed forest, the decline was even more <br /> 2 <br />