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NC Highway 57 Speedway Area Small Area Plan <br />There are two types of subdivisions: major and minor. Minor Subdivisions are divisions of land <br />resulting in the creation of two to five lots, and are generally reviewed at the staff level. Major <br />Subdivisions are those divisions of land proposing to create more than five lots; those are <br />reviewed for technical matters by staff and through a development review and approval process <br />that includes the Planning Board and BOCC. <br />All subdivisions have to make provisions for road construction as well as designating a minimum <br />road right -of -way. Although the County has private road construction standards that are less <br />restrictive than the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) standards, the right - <br />of -way requirements are the same. <br />As areas within the County continue to develop, the need to encourage the interconnectivity of <br />individual roadways becomes more and more important to allow for the free flow of traffic and <br />to create a unified traffic pattern. The availability of alternate routes, and interconnected side <br />streets, throughout an area provides for some disbursement of traffic and alleviates some of the <br />traffic load off the highways serving larger areas of the County. Prior understanding of this <br />network of roads and planning for this at the subdivision level can be a powerful tool in <br />proactively addressing transportation problems of the future. <br />11 <br />