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LAND USE <br />all traffic problems in a specific area relate to the <br />Nearly a large industrial plant might be <br />area's land use. For example, <br />the cause of congestion ringh <br />- the e hours <br />remainder of day its <br />come and go, however, during <br />might occur. Travel demand (i.e. <br />the number of vehicles going to <br />and from a given point each dared predictable attributable u a industry <br />sinceitsnumberof <br />would be relatively constant a Whereas, a regional shopping <br />workers would not usually enormously on a daily basis due <br />center's travel demand could vary in weather conditions, etc. <br />to sales promotion, Christmas shopping, g, <br />of land use <br />The spatial distribution otraffic generators)yssthe predominant <br />(sometimes referred to a s <br />determinant of when, where, and why traffic congestion occurs. <br />sent <br />Anticipated future land ise is expectedngrowthewill gical <br />spatial distribution. Determ <br />occur facilitates the location of proposed <br />County ishshown.onA Lan <br />Use Map from a study performed b Y Orange <br />Figure 4• <br />Land in Hillsborough can be classified into the following <br />Land Use Plan categories: <br />U_ AN. All of the area raterritorial 'Jplanningljurisdiction has <br />corporate limits and ext <br />been classified as Ur he velopmentnpattern tin that area. Given <br />the Town will shape the de p infill development, most of <br />the preferred policy of encouraging <br />the higher intensity growth during the plan period should occur <br />within the designated UeX raterritorial external planning boundary <br />Jurisdiction <br />Town of Hillsborough's <br />generally coincides with the reasdesign tedjurisdictionnistion <br />Land to the east of Hillsborough's <br />ansit g <br />designated 20 -Year Transition. by bounded on to <br />by St. Mary's Road, to the east by <br />the south by the main line of the Southern Railroad. <br />All of the land designated Rural Residential <br />RURAL RESIDENTIAL- <br />occurs in this southern tier ofuitablewland use rural, non -farm <br />residential uses are the most s <br />AGRICULTURAL-RESIDENT Township, Except t for <br />of the eland a ern and <br />designated <br />western Hillsborough Township, most <br />Agricultural - Residential is located einathe northern atier ofthare <br />Township where farming and associat <br />the most appropriate land uses. <br />in the <br />PUBLIC INTEREST AREAS. The Duke Foresttract$, located designated <br />southeast and west - central portion of the <br />Public Interest Areas. <br />21 <br />