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North Carolina requires development along state routes to be accordance with NCDOT’s Policy on Street and <br />Driveway Access to North Carolina Highways. This document sets specific driveway and street access points <br />criteria regulating their location, design, and operation. When any construction work is done on state routes or <br />adjacent to existing roadways, connection and access points must meet this state regulation; including <br />properties being modified or expanded. While the state’s policy focuses on the transportation network, local <br />zoning ordinances and subdivision regulations address land use. Local access management plans play an <br />important role in merging state policy and local authority in efforts to integrate land use and transportation, <br />including Orange County planning processes. <br /> <br />B. Background and Planning Area <br />Several plans have been completed within the E-B-M area, beginning with the 1981 Comprehensive Plan, which <br />was a Countywide plan addressing land uses for all of the County’s townships. FIGURE 2 illustrates the AMP’s <br />chronology. The E-B-M AMP encompasses 4.25 square miles along I-85/I-40 between Efland and Mebane and is <br />bounded by the following (FIGURE 3): <br />• North: US Highway 70 <br />• South: West Ten Road/Bowman Road <br />• East: I-85/US-70 Connector <br />• West: Ben Wilson Road <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1981 - <br />Comprehensi <br />ve Plan <br />1991 -The <br />Efland <br />Area <br />Study <br />2004 - Expansion of <br />Public Water and <br />Sewer to Efland- <br />Buckhorn-Mebane <br />2006 - <br />Efland- <br />Mebane <br />Small <br />Area Plan <br />2011 - E-B-M <br />AMP <br />2017 - Volkert <br />Transportation <br />Study <br />Figure 2: Plan Chronology <br /> 26