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113 <br /> - <br /> 411! - - <br /> MAJOR DIFFERENCES BETWEEN D 1987 LAND USE PLANS FOR <br /> HEM TOWNSHIP <br /> Household Size and Housing Stock <br /> Added to 1987 Plan <br /> Circulation <br /> The 1981 Plan simply describes the road system in the Township. The <br /> 1987 Plan places greater emphasis on circulation patterns and traffic <br /> volumes on arterial and collector roads . <br /> Proposed Cane Creek Reservoir <br /> The 1987 plan deletes this section. Issues concerning Cane Creek are <br /> now incorporated into the body of the plan. <br /> Cultural and Natural Resources <br /> Added to the 1987 plan. <br /> Existing Land Use <br /> Added to 1987 plan. <br /> Development Trends <br /> Added to 1987 plan. Focuses on building and subdivision activity and <br /> the effects of the Rural Buffer on outlying areas of the Township. <br /> Organising Concepts <br /> Adds that protecting water supply watersheds should not be solely at <br /> the expense of watersheds that are not part of a public drinking water <br /> supply. <br /> Projections <br /> All projections are revised upward in the 1987 plan. <br /> Distribution <br /> 1) Two new categories are added for portions of the Township outside <br /> the Joint Planning Area, Resource Protection Areas and Agricultural <br /> Areas (These areas were added to the portion of the Township in the <br /> Joint Planning Area in 1986) . <br /> 2) The activity nodes at Haw River and Frog Level have been deleted. <br /> 3) The activity Node at Oak Grove has been moved outside the Cane Creek <br /> watershed. <br /> 4) The Dodsons Crossroad tract of Duke Forest has been reclassified <br /> from Agricultural Residential and Rural Buffer to Public Interest <br /> District. <br /> _ - -. <br />