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85 and air with its proximity to the developing Concord Regional Airport, King's Grant has the potential to become a major employment area for Cabarrus County. In all, the development contains 1700 hundred acres for industrial, commercial and retail sites. It will straddle the Interstate with a new interchange estimated to begin construction in Fall of 1992. The interchange will access a connector road, called the Kings Grant Parkway, wKich runs to Derita Road on the west and Highway 29 on the east. The King's Grant Parkway is also proposed to be one of the main entries into the developing 5,000 unit Highland Creek subdivision, two thirds of which lies in Mecklenburg County. There are numerous other ma0ufacturing/industrial sites in the Western Area which are much smaller. Among them are the CMS industrial park, Carpenter Industries, Concord Business Park and S & D Coffee. A list of major businesses for this area and the entire County is available from the Chamber of Commerce. The list includes name, location, type business and employment categories among other things. PUBLIC FACILITIES Public facilities are those land uses that are typically government owned and operated to perform one or more of the functions of government such as education and recreation. Two examples of public facilities found in the study area are schools and a park. The park in the study area is perhaps the most well known in Cabarrus County, Frank I-iske Park~ This 178 acre facility is operated by Cabarrus County and is considered a "district" level park, one of the largest designations. District parks are designed and intended to serve the recreation needs of up to 40,000 people. The site includes a variety of recreational opportunities: softball fields, soccer fields, tennis courts, playgrounds, picnic shelters, fitness/walking trails, amphitheater and miniature golf course. The recently commissioned Cabarrus Coun .ty Parks & Recreation Master Plan (1991) suggests that a community sized park is warranted in the Townslxip Two area in general but does not offer any specific location. This is due to Frank Liske Park serving as the sole disO'ict park in the County and it also serving as a community park. There are several schools within the plan area. There is Wolf Meadow, an elementary school with a student enrollment of approximately 680 south of Highway 29 off Roberta Road and in plan Subarea Three. Another elementary, but much older with a pre-1930 construction date, is W. R. Odell located at the intersection of Highway 73 and Odell School Road in Subarea One. It currently has over 800 students and the Cabarrus Coun .ty Schools. C0pi.tal Facilities Plan 1991-2000 recommends its replacement mid-decade. J.N. Fries is a middle school that is located off Old Charlotte Road near N.C. 49. While these schools are located in this plan area, all of their students do not come from the plan area alone, nor do all children in the plan area attend just these three schools. Maps 4 and 5 show the school attendance zones for the Western Area. The final school in the area is somewhat different in that it is not operated through either of the County school systems but rather the State. The Stonewall Jackson Training School, located on old Charlotte Highway in Subarea Three. The school is a vocational training program for boys who have exhibited behavioral problems. There is also a mix of other public facilities and uses throughout the area. A National Guard Armory located at the corner of N.C. 49 and Old Charlotte Road across from the Jackson Training School. On property behind the training school, a new 1400' transmission tower for an area public tele~,~ision station is being constructed. The tower is on state owned land some of which is proposed for the development of an agribusiness park that would be a joint venture between public and private concerns. The final public use is the Coddle Creek reservoir. The maiority of the reservoir will be north of N.C. 73 West and out of this plan area, but a portion of it will extend south of the road and into the area. TRANSPORTATION The Western Area contains virtually every road size from the Interstate to the single lane dirt road. Interstate 85, mentioned above in conjunction with the King's Grant project, cuts through Township Two coming out of Mecklenburg County at the county line running northeast across and out of the County after intersecting N. C. Highway 73. Its significance as a catalyst for exiting and future development cannot be underestimated. The other major four-lane highway is Highway 29, an east/west connector running between Concord and Charlotte. While much of Highway 29's road frontage is not currently developed, its future WESTERN AREA PLAN DRAFT 4 PAGE 5