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CABARRUS COUNTY Post Office Box ?07 CONCORD, NORTH CAROLINA 28026 TO: Charles D. McGinnis/County Manager ~-~ . . FROM: W.S. Chandler, Jr./Director of Plann~ SUBJECT: Status of Base Mapping DATE: April 5, 1979 The work on the County Base Map is progressing as all of the new streets that are visible on the 1975 aerial photographs have been picked up on the tracings and are currently being inked on the original.. When the legend is prepared, indicat- ing the names and locations of approximately 5,000 to 6,000 street names with their respective grid locations, undoubtably many names will surface that are non depicted on the map. The location of these streets on the map will be slow as there is a poor basis for mapping in some areas of the County. With the submission of scalable subdivision maps, made possible by the Subdivision Ordinance, the maintenance of basic mapping will be more expeditious in the future. The drafting and inking of the map should be completed by the end of May, but an additional month to six weeks will be re- quired to check the field accuracy of the mapping. At a re- solution of 1" = 2,000 feet (which is the scale of the base maps and the U.S.G.S. quad maps) it is sometimes difficult to distinguish a~ wagon road through farm property from a bonifide roadway that would be eligible for naming and street sign erection. A better handle on existing land use patterns will require field survailance and some of this can be done at the time that the ground-proofing of the streets are done. It is essential that we know exactly where land use patterns change before the pre- paration of zoning maps are begun. The complete up-dating of all cadastral (tax) mapping will be necessary before the zones can be applied to actual zoning maps. This will involve a great deal of time as incorrect property lines, street names, etc., are presently shown on maps. Unquestionably this would seem to ne- cessitate the hiring of an additional draftsman. The basic framework of the Zoning Ordinance text content is pre- sently being formulated in outline form. As the writing of the text and the actual placement of zones on maps are two seperate tasks and it is conceivible that the text would be written prior to the completing of the required background mapping.