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domommim■■■■■,=,....72 Allocation of Growth The following were used as allocation guideline standards in determining the location of new growth (these follow directly from the organizing concepts) : 1 ) Duke Forest tracts Will not be developed over the period 1980- 2000. 2) No "spillover" growth from the two Towns will occur in Chatham or Durham Counties or in Bingham Township. In other words, all "spillover" development will be absorbed within the boundaries of Chapel Hill Township. 3) University Lake watersupply watershed will develop only after the remaining suitable vacant land in the Township is developed. 4), The "southern triangle" area will develop only after all the suitable land south of and between the Duke Forest tracts has been developed. • 5) "Spillover" growth from the Towns will locate in contiguous • planning units along a growth corridor focused on NC 86. The area north of the Towns' is assumed to be most suitable for absorbing "spillover" because of transportation access; the large efficiently sewerable area below the Morgan Creek-New Hope Creek divide; and existing growth patterns. To facilitate the allocation of growth the Township was divided into 27 planning units. Boundaries for the planning units were determined primarily by major roads -and the University Lake watershed divide. The exception to this was the designation of the Duke Forest tracts as separate, distinct planning units. (It should be noted that the planning units to which the anticipated growth were delineated before the recent annexations by Chapel Hill and CarrborO. The calculation of vacant, suitable land within the Town's planning areas was also done before the annexations. The net effect on the display of the amount of land developed in the rural part of the Township, however, is minor. )