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4 , <br /> • <br /> 3 <br /> L INTRODUCTION <br /> Purpose <br /> This'report is the third in a series of three reports designed to document the first <br /> consolidated Thoroughfare Plan for the Durham-Chapel Hi l-Cairlboro (DCHC) Urban <br /> Area. The first-report covered the subject area: Analysis of Projections,Deficiencies, and <br /> Needs. The second report covered the subject area: Analysis of Alternadies and <br /> Recommendations. <br /> The purpose of this report is to present public comment on the recommended <br /> Thoroughfare Plan released on January 28, 1988. A series of public meetings were - <br /> held in the Spring of 1988 by the planning staffs of the City of Durham, Durham County, <br /> the Town of Chapel Hill, the Town of Carrboro, Orange County, and the North Carolina <br /> Department of Transportation Planning and Research Branch Statewide Planning Group. <br /> Public comments made at these meetings are addressed in this report. <br /> Considerable' efforts were •-made to • seek - public comment on the•.recommended <br /> Thoroughfare Plan. As a result of public input, the joint planning staffs have addressed <br /> these comments and make final staff recommendations for.the Thoroughfare Plan. <br /> History of Planning in the Area <br /> The current thoroughfare study.is the first transportation planning effort•to consider the <br /> 'needs for Durham, Chapel Hill,. Carrboro,' and the surrounding in plan. Prior to this study, major tra, ash have one <br /> en <br /> for Durh� y' major �ssportation plans nave been <br /> prepared am, and two for Chapel Hill and Carrboro. <br /> Durham's first plan was completed in 1959. The second thoroughfare planning study was <br /> undertaken by a consultant, Harlan Bartholomew and Associates. .•It was adopted in <br /> 1967. The third transportation planning study was prepared by NCDOT under the <br /> auspices of the TAC and TCC. This plan was adopted in 1980. Some revisions to the <br /> 1980 plan were mutually approved in 1985. • <br /> A thoroughfare planning process began in Chapel Hill and Carrboro in the early 1960's. <br /> A plan was adopted in 1965 and revised in 1968. After a number of unsuccessful <br /> attempts to update that plan, in 1979, the two towns entered into an agreement with <br /> NCDOT to take the lead in developing an updated thoroughfare plan for the community. <br /> This effort was concluded by the mutual adoption of a new thoroughfare plan in 1984. <br /> • <br /> 1.1 <br />