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traffic and pavement width. Quite a few of the roads in this plan area have sight distance problems at intersections where residents say they are unable to see traffic on the road they are entering or crossing. Adding to that problem is the excessive speed of much of the traffic on those roads. The final problem mentioned was that the pavement on many of the country roads is too narrow for the truck and auto traffic using it. Community meeting participants did not feel these would be any effect on the North Central Area from planned State projects. The pavement widening on N.C. 73 was seen as a positive improvement to the area, and most residents did not feel that the extension of N.C. 136 or the outer outer beltway would lessen or increase traffic in the area at all, although no traffic forecasts have been conducted. There were some, however, who disagreed and felt that traffic using Old Concord Road to access N.C. 136 would increase dramatically. There were no residents who lived near N.C. 49 at the community meetings, but it is a road that has a major effect upon the area. Scheduled improvements to widen N.C. 49 to four lanes will increase access to this area, particularly that portion below N.C. 73. The issues that will be raised as that widening progresses will be an increasing demand for commercial and industrial uses along N.C. 49 and heightened demand for.residential development behind the immediate road corridor. The possibility of a "Cold Water Bypass" connecting the new Earnhardt Road/I-85 interchange to the Penninger/Centergrove Road area was also discussed. Area residents were skeptical that it would ever be needed or built. They felt that if it were to be constructed it would open up the large area to residential and non- residential development. There was concern expressed again that any commercial or industrial areas not intrude into any residential areas. QUALITY OF LIFE These are the general issues that do not fall under the other categories, but instead address the standard of living of the residents. The most prominent statement about quality of life was that residents want the area to remain much as it has been. Most of the meeting participants were long time, even life long, residents. It was their stated goal that the way of life that they enjoyed be passed on to their children much as it had been passed on to them. The other major issue that falls under this category was litter problems. Residents were interested in better enforcement of the rule that trucks going to the landfill be covered. They also felt that correctional workers could be used to clean road sides of the 12