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PREFACE The Cabarrus County Land Development Guide, amended and adopted in 1988, is a general comprehensive land use guide for the County. The proposals, goals and objectives the document stresses are used to help guide and control the development of Cabarms County, but the document does not offer specific land use recommendations for each area of the County. For this reason, the Planning Services Department studies smaller areas of the County to develop specific recommendations to complement the Land Development Guide. The boundaries of each small area are determined by the individual factors affecting each area. Where these factors are similar for a part of the County, a small area study is conducted. The process of the small area study generally follows a set outline. The study begins by the staff pulling together all the available pertinent information. The next step involves meeting with the residents of the area to discuss the process and to find out what they consider to be the most important issues and goals for that part of the county. This infonnation is then distilled and presented back to the public at a second meeting. At that meeting, area residents are asked to propose actions and solutions to address the issues. The recommendations that result are presented to the public at a third meeting. From that point a draf~ plan, based on public and staff input, is forwarded to the Planning and Zoning Commission and County Commissioners for review, comment and adoption. The adopted document and maps are then used in the implementation of the land use plan for the area. Area plans should be reviewed and updated approximately every five years to reflect changes in the area. Small area plans for all the unincorporated areas of the 'county were completed and adopted in the early 1990s.