May 10, 2012

1. May 10, 2012

2. What? Why?

3. PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT • HokeePokee Festival • Hope Mills Opening Day Baseball Event • Dogwood Festival • Stakeholders Meeting • May 22 – East Hoke Middle School 6:30pm • May 23 – Hope Mills Recreation Center 6:30pm

4. Survey Summary • Close the survey June 30 • 65 Surveys • www.congestionplan.com

5. Please tell us which roadways needs to be improved (adding through lanes/turn lanes). Select your top three. • US 401 – 20.5% • Rockfish Road – 56.4% • Camden Road – 48.7% • Main Street (Hope Mills) – 87.2% • Raeford Road – 25.6% • Cliffdale Road – 7.7% • Wayside Road – 7.7% • Other roadways that need changes • Trade St • Legion Rd try to be turning lanes all the way to Owens • Golfview Rd • Lakewood Rd • Rockfish Rd in Cumberland County • Something needs to be done about remaining 2 lane segment of Cliffdale Rd

6. Please tell us which intersections need to be improved to allow faster and/or safer traffic flow • Camden Road/N Main Street (Hope Mills) – 81% • Main Street (Raeford/US 401) – 28.6% • Raeford Road/Cliffdale Road – 9.5% • Rockfish Road/Camden Road – 66.7% • US 401/Cliffdale Road – 14.3% • Dundle Road/Stoney Point Road – 23.8% • Other Intersections • Rockfish Rd and Golfview Rd • Lakeview Rd and Main St

7. How often do you walk or bike now?

8. How often you would like to do the following?

9. Roadways that need pedestrian and bicycle changes • Camden Rd • Rockfish Rd • Golfview Rd • Hope Mills Rd • Main St (Hope Mills) • Raeford Rd • Hwy 301 • Cliffdale Rd • Stoney Point Rd

10. LAND USE Split the study area into four sections and asked what changes were needed in each.

11. LAND USE Section 1

12. LAND USE Section 2

13. LAND USE Section 3

14. LAND USE Section 4

15. Other Land Use Responses • Way too many low income areas are concentrated making crime rates in the city inflate and gang activity rise. Breaking these areas up will help crime. Look at what New Haven, CT did with it's ghettos as an example of good planning. • Need better roads and services • There seems to be too much development on the periphery; development needs to occur in urbanized areas. • Need more stores; another Wal-Mart out closer to 301 • Neighborhoods should be connected/interconnected so that neighbors do not need to leave one neighborhood to get to another. "Deep" development is needed to prevent Bragg Blvd-type development. • Land use needs to be higher density. Strip commercial with each their own points of access is out of control. There are loads of derelict lots in this study area that need to be reused or held to a certain condition standard. • Less government housing in Area 4

16. Mapping a Better Outcome Creating a Community without Covering Old Ground

17. Not a Blank Slate, and Not Homogeneous, Either Typically, we would start with overarching goals to help us guide the course of the study and its recommendations. Next, we would develop many scenarios to define directions for the study area, and refine them based on our initial interpretation of study goals. This approach does not lend itself well to this particular study because: Towns and Counties already have adopted visions, goals, and objectives The study area is very diverse and complex, and does not lend itself well to generic goals When generic goals are used, generic outcomes almost always result: “the lowest common denominator”

18. Turning the Normal Process on its Head Use our knowledge of our own communities to create the best possible conservation areas, suburbs, towns, cities, downtowns, and other place types to create land use and transportation “building blocks” that we can apply to different parts of our diverse region.

19. A. Open Spaces Most Rural Preservation/Conservation-Minded Doesn’t produce traffic demand Doesn’t produce school demand Doesn’t produce demand for public services like water/sewer Not supportive of any alternative mode of travel Doesn’t produce much tax revenue

20. B. Country Living Most Rural Preservation/Conservation-Minded Doesn’t produce much traffic Doesn’t produce much school demand Has some negative impacts on water pollution Not generally supportive of any alternative mode of travel

21. C. Suburban Style Dominant form of residential construction for over 60 years Houses are on small (1/2-acre or less) lots Little diversity of uses Produces a moderate amount of tax revenues Consumes the most open space and farmland for new developments Produces a lot of auto traffic Not generally supportive of any alternative mode of travel Produces a lot of pollution from mobile and area sources

22. D. Small Town Downtown Gathering Place Repository of Historic Places Increasingly Popular Lifestyle Choice Produces a large amount of tax revenues Favors alternative modes of travel Low impact to open space farmland conversion Moderate water/sewer demands Produces a lot of auto traffic

23. E. The Highway Corridor The most popular site for major commercial activity Popular location for apartments Produces a large amount of tax revenues Low school demand Modest impact to open space farmland conversion High water/sewer demands Produces a lot of auto traffic

24. F. Bright Lights Commercial and office core Variety of multi-family housing options Produces a large amount of tax revenues Low school demand Low impact to open space and farmland conversion Favors alternative ways of travel Moderate water/sewer demands Produces a lot of auto traffic

25. Apply Building Blocks to Map… Discuss Land Use Types for Each Undeveloped (Hatched) Area Write in (a) boundary of the area; and (b) the letter designation Make additional notes, as needed, for specific instructions