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.. . ;;7.;7':' ORANGE',COUNTY'.PLANNING DEPARTMENT . •. '- • 4 'NT* ageo .. . ••!: : 7 : MENU • • •- -=.714,-,:•••• '- • Orange County Planning Board :. • ' • FROM:: . Eddie* Kirk. : ••• • • - . Date:': . Jtrl:.y 31, 1.985 - -. RE: • Traffic conditions around Cornwallis Hills: • Present traffic• conditions around Cornwallis Hi L is are • - . difficult.. to. determine- since the only traffic- counts avaf table are from- 1981 . Oakdale Drive had a. traffic count of 330 trips p•e•r-day in 1981 whi le' Old. NC. 86 had a count of _ • : 4,20.0: between Oakdale 'Drive and Interstate 85. Tire present Cornwallis H••i Bills—Phase I" development of 37 Lots • :.., generates approximately sea trips per day, alt of which are . added to Old NC 86'. If'. the 84.71 acres that is proposed to . - be rezoned to- R-3 is approved an a.ddit•i one C 111 Lots would be • created which' would. generate approximate-L'y 1,079- trips per day. Eighty—five percent of the trips generated would flow- directly to Old. NC: 86• through' 'Cornwallis Hilts. The other" fifteen percent would flow to Oakdale Drive with the majority • turning right toward' Old- NC 86. If' the remainder of the property identified for future development were to ire. developed at an 9-3 density, an • • additional 1 ,145 trips- per day wouLd be created. The • ■ajo.rity of this traffic would be directed- toward Old NC- 86. Nuch-"of this traffic turns in a northerly direction toward 1.-85; however, with the construction of 1-40 much of this - traffic will. be- diverted in a southernly di recti tin . The • Board of Commissioners have requested the- widening of. 01.d NC 86 to 4 lanes north of Interstate-40 as part of' the N.C. Department of Transportation 's Seven Year Transportation Improvement Program. • -