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HARRISBURG AREA LAND USE PLAN <br />(W o Located in areas where e e can support It (more Intense than other <br />land use categories). <br />o Typically, four -lane highways and industrial collector streets are primary <br />forms of access, supplemented by railroad service, and curb and gutter is <br />more widely used. <br />The Harrisburg Area Land Use Map identifies two locales for a mixture of light industrial <br />and commercial development, both on regional arterial roadways. <br />• The district on NC -49, in the western side of the planning area, benefits from <br />railroad access and potentially from road improvements depicted on the Conceptual <br />Transportation Network Map: a grade- separated railroad crossing and improved <br />north -south movements due to links appearing in the MPO thoroughfare plan. <br />• The district on US -29, in the northwest corner of the planning area, may attract <br />economic spin -off from nearby Charlotte Motor Speedway in addition to a new link <br />from the thoroughfare plan. <br />Conceptual Street Network <br />The rapid rate of residential and commercial growth within the study area coupled with <br />limited mobility alternatives and reliance on the existing arterial roadway system suggests <br />that the study area would benefit from the development of a more robust collector street <br />network. The primary purpose of the collector street system is to collect traffic from <br />neighborhoods and distribute it to the system of major and minor thoroughfares. A <br />properly implemented collector street system improves accessibility to higher intensity <br />residential areas and activity centers while minimizing impacts to natural areas. <br />To achieve an effective collector street network, a simple methodology correlates land use <br />intensity (rather than use) with street spacing to generate preferred block structures. <br />Simply stated, as land use intensity increases, street spacing should decrease. The table <br />below equates categories of proposed residential land use intensities expressed on the <br />Harrisburg Are Land Use Map with recommended street spacing. <br />PART V: THE HARRISBURG AREA LAND USE MAP <br />AYPUST X010 <br />achmen number 1 <br />G -1 Page 360 <br />