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Chapter l: Plan Development <br />IiThd,'Beginning <br />The, Orange- County Board of Commissioners andi Hillsboroughi;Town' Board initiated the US 70I <br />Cornelius Street Task Force with the goal of developing a strategic plan for the future development and <br />redevelopment of the 70� Corridor in. Hillsborough; NC and directed staff at thei Economic Development <br />Commission and the' Town of Hillsborough 'Planning' Department to compile a task force of volunteers <br />to steer the process., -OnMay 28, 2006, a public input session was held at the Orange County Food Lab <br />for property owners, citizens, and business owners in the corridor to come together and talk about the <br />current conditions along the stretch of US' 70. That evening, interested community members who <br />volunteered to serve with representatives from the County and -Town formed the US 70G Cornelius Street <br />Task' Force. <br />.The. Task Force first met in June 2006 and decided to focus initial attention on the section of the corridor <br />west of the NC-86 and US 70 intersection, which due of its residential aspect displays particular <br />characteristics and requires different economic development tactics than the section of US 70 to the east <br />of NC -86. Some of these characteristics include maintaining a neighborhood scale in new development <br />by creating sympathetic commercial development. <br />The following two maps highlight the; US 70/ Cornelius Street Corridor relative to the- Hillsborough <br />town limits and extra - territorial jurisdiction. <br />/( (c xt ti <br />f' N, <br />Iv�n�•n�l rout ' , „ 1 � � ^ � r,--�i ;t t 1 <br />1 1�i I Il f'1� 1 t f ` s �N✓` t f ��''r'yf Jt ti 1) <br />' r 4 <br />r <br />/ r � <br />1 <br />US 70f Cornelius Street Corridor Strategic'Plan 2007 <br />