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Residential , Environmentally Sensitive, Public Interest Areas, Reservoir <br /> Protection, Commercial Transition Activity Nodes, Rural Industrial Activity <br /> Nodes, and Rural Commercial Activity Nodes. All of the area within the <br /> Town of Hillsborough's corporate limits and planning jurisdiction has been <br /> classified as Urban. This means, in effect, that the Town's Land Use Plan <br /> will shape the development pattern in that area. With the policy of <br /> encouraging infill development, most of the projected higher-intensity <br /> growth over the next 20 years should occur within the designated Urban area. <br /> However, some additional 20-Year Transition Area has been deliviated to <br /> the east of Hillsborough's planning jurisdiction which includes land area <br /> that is currently served by the municipal water and sewer system or could <br /> be efficiently served at some time in the future, when the demand is suf- <br /> ficient. The 20-Year Transition Area outside the Town's planning jurisdic- <br /> tion is bordered to the north by Strouds Creek, to the east by the Township <br /> boundary and Lawrence Road and to the south by the railroad tracks, which <br /> are south of an generally parallel Interstate 85, All of the Rural Residen- <br /> tial classification occurs in the southern tier of the Township where rural , <br /> non-farm housing will be the most suitable land use. Most of the Agricultural <br /> Residential classification is in the northern tier of the Township where <br /> farming and associated agricultural activities are the most appropriate land <br /> use. The Environmentally Sensitive Freas in Hillsborough Township include <br /> the 100-Year floodplains which are described in the Township Profile section, <br /> The Duke Forest tracts in the southeast and west central portion of the <br /> Township area Public Interest Areas. A small portion of the Upper Eno <br /> watershed which lies along the western boundary of the Township will be <br /> classified as Reservoir Protection. In addition to classifying these areas <br /> of land, the County's land use planning strategy has been to identify and <br />