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NC Highway 57 Speedway Area Small Area Plan <br />4. The County's desire to protect existing development patterns within the area while <br />still allowing for reasonable use of property. <br />On June 27, 2006 the BOCC authorized the Planning and Economic Development staff to begin <br />the process of developing a Small Area Plan for the NC 57 area bordering the Person and <br />Durham County lines, in and around the Speedway property including parcels with an existing <br />go -cart track, a former asphalt plant, a cement plant, and an existing bedrock quarry. <br />The NC 57 corridor area proposed for this study, hereafter called the Study Area, contains <br />approximately 38 parcels encompassing approximately 930 acres. NC Highway 57 bisects the <br />Study Area diagonally from southwest to northeast. The Person County line is the northern <br />boundary and the Durham County line is the eastern boundary. Mile Branch Road, Bacon Road, <br />and Bunny Road intersect with NC Highway 57 north to south along the corridor. <br />The Study Area is located within Little River Township, which came under Orange County <br />zoning jurisdiction in 1994. The majority of the property within the Study Area is currently <br />zoned Agricultural Residential (AR) with two parcels zoned Existing Commercial Five (EC -5). <br />The Study Area is also located within the Flat and Little River Protected Watershed Overlay <br />Zoning Districts. The predominate land use is residential with four non- residential uses, <br />including the Orange County Speedway and a rock quarry, currently in operation. (Please refer <br />to Figure 1. Study Area Map.) <br />2 <br />