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New Rope ramdor Open Space Masser pfmt 3. Access Points for Trails Selected access points, including parking areas, picnic areas, and in some locations interpretive centers should be offered at such locations as: • Leigh Farm; • NC 54; • Sherwood Githens Middle School or the City of Durham Park; • Erwin Road between Dry Creek and Interstate 40; • Erwin Road near the Hollow Rock Store; • Mt. Moriah Road; • Erwin and Cornwallis Roads intersection; • Sandy Creek sewage treatment plant site (abandoned); • Mud Creek between Chapel Hill- Durham Boulevard and Pickett Road. Parking only should be offered at NC 54. Should it become less significant for academic purposes in Duke University's Duke Forest plan, the Erwin and Cornwallis Roads intersection location, which is in Duke Forest and bisected by Mud Creek, could be a superb location for a natural area City park. The abandoned sewage treatment plant site at Sandy Creek is an excellent location for an active recreation facility. The Leigh Farm, north of NC 54, should be preserved and made the southern anchor of the corridor. Also, Erwin Road on the north side of Dry Creek is an excellent location for an open space anchor. Hollow Rock Store should be a significant community landmark. Criteria for Developing Portions of the Corridor Tbat Could Be Built Upon This report is not a detailed plan for using portions of the corridor adjacent to the floodplains and steep slopes. However, the ways in which these areas are or are not developed will have a direct impact on the waterways, the floodplains, and the slopes- -the portions of the corridor that should remain essentially undisturbed. 1. General. Criteria, If the adjacent areas are developed, they should be developed with great sensitivity to the environment. Run -off and erosion must be kept at an absolute minimum. Ground disturbance should be kept as far distant as possible from the top of the slopes.. Ravines should be recognized and retained in their natural state with as little disturbance as possible. Any manmade lakes should be located as far as possible upstream in the appropriate draw. Development on or near ridge lines should be designed so as to prevent visual disturbance of the appearance of the ridge line areas as seen from the corridor.