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23 <br />Classification Criteria <br />Upon evaluating the above data as well as the geographic relationships of roads to <br />adjacent counties and to cities and major destinations within Orange County, the <br />following classifications were determined to best describe the public roads in Orange <br />County outside of the urbanized planning boundaries: <br />Principal Arterial <br />Minor Arterial <br />Collector <br />Major Local <br />Minor Local <br />This classification is a refinement of the current NCDOT classification as used in the <br />County Land Use Plan, which stops at the collector level. The definition of a road <br />classification is subjective and qualitative; and subsequently so is its application to a <br />road system. The description of these functional classifications developed for Orange <br />County is shown in Table 1. <br />Recommended Classification <br />The criteria described in Table 1 were then applied to the street network in the rural <br />Orange County study area. The recommended classifications for the road system are <br />shown in Figure I and summarized in Table 2. <br />Comparison With Urban Study Area Classification <br />The road classifications developed here were compared with those determined by <br />NCDOT for the Hillsborough and the Durham - Chapel Hill- Carrboro (D -CH -C) <br />transportation planning areas, where those roads cross the planning boundaries (see <br />Table 3). It would generally be expected that roads classified as principal arterials, <br />5 <br />