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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 allocation guidelines, which incorporate the descriptive framework of the County land use classification system are derived from the County and Township policies to facilitate the process of determining the location of new growth in Chapel Hill Township. o Duke Forest tracts will, not be developed over the period 1980-2000. o No "spillover" growth fram 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. o University Lake water supply watershed will develop only after the remaining suitable vacant land in the Township is developed. o The "southern triangle" area will develop only after all the suit- able land, south of and between the Duke Forest tracts has been developed.. o 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 pri- marily by major roads and, the University Lake watershed divide. The exception to this was the designation of the Duke Forest tracts as sepa- rate, istinct planning units. It should be noted that the planning units to which the anticipated growth was allocated were delineated prior to recent annexations by Chapel Hill and Carrboro. The calculation of vacant, suitable land within the Town's planning areas was also done prior to the annexations. The net effect of these annexations on the calculation of land requirements elsewhere in the Township is minor. In light of these allocation guidelines, information about land in Chapel Hill 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 Chapel Hill Township. Distribution of Land Use Plan Catel•ries Land in Chapel Hill Township has been classified into the 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 develooment, and the Township's projected population change and resulting land requirements.