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382 WHEREAS, the Interim Balanced Growth Board's formulated Balanced Growth Policy does encourage economic progress and job opportunities throughout the state--while at the same time maintaining our dispersed population; and WHEREAS, the Balanced Growth Policy has established criteria to be used in designating communities as growth centers, which have been defined as those areas which have the willingness to pursue orderly development, the potential to grow, and the capacity to accommodate additional growth; and WHEREAS, the growth center boundary is based upon the definition of an urban cluster, which has been defined as a core incorporated place, or places, that is an active municipality or an unincorporated area of at least 1,000 persons, and all adjacent census enumeration districts with a density of 200 or more persons per square mile; and WHEREAS, the growth center classification system identifies the extent to which an urban cluster provides jobs, goods and services to its economic area, or multi-county planning region; and WHEREAS, the Concord-Kannapolis-Landis-China Grove urban area has previously demonstrated, is presently demonstrating and in the future will continue to demonstrate a willingness to pursue orderly development, to show the potential for growth, and to have the capacity to accommodate additional growth; and WHEREAS, the Concord-Kannapolis-Landis-China Grove urban area qualifies for designation as a "regional" growth center, which is one of the six classes of· growth centers and, according to the criteria used in making designations, described as the dominant urban cluster within a multi-county planning region and defined as the dominant urban cluster or clusters in population size and retail sales generated--relative to its multi-county planning region; and WHEREAS, the Concord-Kannapolis-Landis-China Grove urban area has over fifty-one percent of the population of the urban area as unincorporated and is located in Rowan and Cabarrus counties; and WHEREAS, it is incumbent upon the lead local units of governme.ng to approve a formal resolution and submit an application'for growth center designation, with accompanying map, to the Interim Balanced Growth Board, and WHEREAS, the lead local units for the Concord-Kannapolis-Landis-China Grove urban area are the county governmental units of Cabarrus and Rowan. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: That the urban area as described on the attached application and shown on the accompanying map, by reason of having met the qualifications as described above, be designated as a "regional" growth center and hereby be known by title as the Cabarrus- Rowan Regional Growth Center. Cabarrus: Resolution adopted by the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, as one of the lead local units of government in joint application for the Cabarrus-Rowan Regional Growth Center designation at its regular Commission meeting of March 10, 1980. I, Frankie F. Small, County Clerk of the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of excerpts from the Minutes of the County Commissioners of said County. Witness my hand and the official seal of the County of Cabarrus, this the 14th day of March, 1980. /s/ Frankie F. Small County Clerk COUNTY SEAL