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NC Highway 57 Speedway Area Small Area Plan <br />3. A landscaped buffer along NC Highway 57, <br />4. A perimeter landscape and conservation buffer /easement, <br />5. Signage, <br />6. Parking and travel lanes, and emergency vehicle access points and fire lanes, <br />7. Lighting, <br />8. External access, <br />9. Landscaping, <br />10. Stormwater detention facilities, <br />11. Septic drain fields and repair field locations, <br />12. Well locations, <br />13. Fuel and material storage facilities, <br />14. Proactive litter collection, <br />15. Limits on racing activities, <br />16. Vehicles noise control, <br />17. Impervious cover, and <br />18. Access control, <br />19. Hazardous materials storage. <br />PRINCIPLE 4 -- Maintenance of present service levels for existing infrastructure <br />Another important component to addressing future growth within the Study Area is to require <br />developers to take into account the infrastructure needs of a proposed development. This <br />includes water and wastewater needs, traffic impacts, and the generation of off -site impacts. <br />There is a concern over protecting the viability and sustainability of existing ground water <br />supplies. Because the area in question is extremely unsuitable, from a geological perspective, to <br />develop and maintain high yield water wells, any additional development within the area cannot <br />have a water demand. <br />Development should not occur within the County without having a comprehensive infrastructure <br />needs analysis of a specific project. As the County looks to potentially encourage several diverse <br />types of development within the Study Area, it is important that any new development can <br />demonstrate that existing land uses will not experience any significant negative secondary effects <br />from the proposed development, such as water shortages, sewer problems, and an increase in <br />traffic congestion on local roadways. <br />It is important to note, from a groundwater supply issue, that the owners of the stone quarry <br />operation have ,proposed a 100 -acre reservoir on the quarry property after the cessation of <br />operations. This proposal is part of the existing mining permit on file with the State. The actual <br />34 <br />