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The projected population of 7650 persons in Bingham Township by the year 2000 would require an estimated 1553 additional dwelling units and 4271 acres of additional residential land. In addition to the residential acreage, residential development brings in its wake the need for land for non-residential purposes such as shopping, schools, churches recreational facilities fire stations and other similar uses. The total additional acreage required during the plan period, therefore, is 4485 acres. Allocation of Growth The primary task of the Land Use Plan is to geographically allocate the anticipated growth throughout the Township in accordance with the County- wide goals and policies and the Township policy statements. In actuality, the amount of land allocated to accomodate this growth will be substan- tially greater than the calculated need to allow for variations in the availability of land and the exercise of market choice. The following pllocation guidelines, which incorporate the descriptive framework of the County land use classification system, are derived from the County and Township policies to faciJitate the process of determining the location of new growth in Bingham Township: o Rural non-farm residential development will be allocated so as to avoid negative environmental or economic impacts on agriculture. o Commercial development will be allocated to designated activity nodes, which provide a more reasonable and efficient alternative to the trend toward strip-type development along the rural roads, especially along N.C. 54. o Commercial and non-farm residential development will be directed away from areas that, if developed at those intensities, would create negative impacts on water supply watersheds. In light of these allocation guidelines, information about land in Bingham Township was "filtered" through the set of locational criteria in order to evaluate the suitability of certain locations to contain various land uses. This information was then utilized in the classification of land throughout Bingham Township. Distribution of Land Use Plan Categories Land in Bingham Township has been classified into the following Land Use Plan categories according to the public policies expressed in the Plan, the set of locational criteria defining the appropriateness of the physical environmental context for future development, and the Township's projected population change and resulting Land requirements: RURAL RESIDENTIAL. This area of the Township is generally bounded by the University Lake watershed to the east, Dairyland Road to the north, Orange Grove Road to the west and N.C. 54 to the south. The area has character- istics which make it suitable for rural, non-farm residential development. It is adjacent to the major east-westroad, N.C. 54 and near the Rural Community of White Cross. A proposed Rural Commercial Activity node at