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.10- <br /> 0 <br /> would require an estimated 2,964 housing units beyond the <br /> stock existing in 1987. This would place an additional 6,466 <br /> acres into residential use. Through 1995, the average lot <br /> size used to determine acreage is based on the average lot <br /> subdivided in between 1980 and 1987. After 1995, it is <br /> assumed that escalating land prices and diminishing <br /> availability of land will force lot sizes down. Two acres <br /> represents an arbitrary number, but is the most restrictive <br /> residential zoning lot size in use during 1987. <br /> Total acreage required between 1987 and 2005 takes into <br /> account residential, commercial, institutional, and <br /> industrial needs. Institutional and commercial uses are most <br /> directly tied to residential increases, and a multiplier of <br /> one acre of new commercial/institutional acreage for every <br /> twenty acres of new residential acreage is used. Industrial <br /> acreage requirements do not have the direct association with <br /> residential acreage that other non-residential uses do. There <br /> are, however, areas of the Township that are suitable for <br /> industrial uses and should be set aside for such purposes. <br /> Two hundred fifty acres is set aside for industrial <br /> requirements during the course of the plan period. <br /> Allocation of Growth <br /> The primary task of the a land use plan is to geographically <br /> allocate the anticipated growth throughout the Township in <br /> accordance with County-wide goals and policies, as well as <br /> the Township organizing concepts. In actuality, the amount of <br /> land allocated to accommodate this growth will be <br /> substantially greater than the' calculated need in order to <br /> allow for variations in the availability of land and the <br /> exercise of free market choice. <br /> The following allocation guidelines incorporate the <br /> descriptive framework of the County' land use classification <br /> system: <br /> *The rural and agricultural areas in the northern and <br /> central portions of Eno Township, which contain the <br /> Township's prime agricultural soils, should be <br /> maintained in those uses. <br /> *Low density non-farm residential development is most <br /> appropriate in the southern tier of Eno Township. <br /> *Low and medium intensity commercial and industrial <br /> development is appropriate in the area focusing on the <br /> intersection of 1-85 and US70, and extending southeast <br /> toward the Durham County line. <br /> *Duke Forest and Eno River State Park tracts, which <br /> 3.10-14 <br />