Land Use Plan – 2002 - Stanly County, North Carolina

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LEGEND Primary Growth Area Secondary Growth Area Agricultural Conservation Area Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction Incorporated Area Locust: 10-Year and 20-Year Growth Areas Extend Into Cabarrus County Locust Stanfield NC 200 4 0 4 Miles Finger Red Cross Oakboro NC 205 Millingport Frog Pond NC 742 Misenheimer NC 49 Richfield Plyler Endy NC 73 NC 24/27 US 52 New London NC 8 ALBEMARLE St. Martin Rocky River Greenway Protection Area NC 138 Aquadale NC 740 Airport Protection Area Albemarle-Stanly County Airport US 52 Norwood Rocky Tuckertown Lake Tuckertown Dam Badin NC 73/24/27 NC 731 Figure 6-1 Long-Range Plan Recommendations River Badin Lake Morrow Mountain State Park Narrows Dam Falls Lake Falls Dam Morrow Mountain State Park Protection Area Lake Tillery Norwood Dam Land Use Plan Stanly County, North Carolina
STANLY COUNTY The Land Use Plan is designed to guide future development so that Stanly County’s character is not lost to the gradual and insidious effects of rural sprawl. The plan attempts to lay out a program to preserve the county’s natural attributes, quality of life, and productive agricultural land. The Land Use Plan attempts, through a series of general principles and specific recommendations, to promote and retain Stanly County’s assets through the logical location of intensive land uses, the recognition of agriculture as an essential element of the overall community, and the conservation of open spaces and sensitive lands. The Land Use Plan also recommends a close association between land use decision-making and public infrastructure investment. While the Land Use Plan does not make specific recommendations for future roadway improvements, specific recommendations for utility capital improvements, or specific recommendations for community facility investment, it does seek to coordinate these endeavors within an overall program guided by the Land Use Plan. Table 6-1 provides a summary of the nine land use principles guiding the land use plan recommendations. Each principle is described in detail below: Table 6-1. Stanly County Land Use Plan Principles. Number Principle 1 Future growth and development in Stanly County should be directed to the county’s existing cities, towns, and other, established population centers. 2 Protect farming as an essential element of Stanly County’s future in terms of culture, economy, and land use. 3 Focus development to areas of the county where the physical conditions of the land can naturally support and are appropriate for non-agricultural land uses. 4 Protect Stanly County’s unique natural and cultural resources 5 Use long-range planning for public infrastructure investments—public utilities, road infrastructure, and emergency/safety service—as an opportunity for community building in the county. 6 Encourage land use patterns that provide a compact mix of land uses at a higher intensity of development. 7 The provision of parks, recreation, and open space needs to be an element of future land use planning in Stanly County. 8 Use the Land Use Plan recommendations to promote the economic development of Stanly County through a balance of traditional economic development practices, and the recommendations of the North Carolina Central Park concept. 9 Cooperation between the county, communities, and other entities offers the best solution to future land use planning in Stanly County. Source: Woolpert LLP, 2002. 1. Future growth and development in Stanly County should be directed to the county’s existing cities, towns, and to other established population centers. Historically Stanly County’s development pattern focused on the small cities and towns located in every corner of the county. Regardless of the emergence of the industrial economy through the “cotton mills in the cotton fields” initiative a century ago, or the arrival of the railroad, or the improvement of roadways linking Stanly County to outlying markets, the majority of the population living in the county lived what are today’s nine incorporated municipalities: Albemarle, Badin, Locust, New London, Norwood, Oakboro, Red Cross, Richfield, and Stanfield. Other, much smaller population centers include unincorporated towns and crossroad settlements such as Aquadale, Endy, Millingport, and Misenheimer. A central recommendation of the Stanly County Land Use Plan is to encourage development in the eight cities first, then to areas adjacent to them. Where utilities and good roadway access is available, development should be focused toward the larger towns—Aquadale, Endy, Finger, Frog Pond, Millingport, Misenheimer, Plyler, and St. Martin—as well. This recommendation is based on the reasoning that all these communities are the portions of the county that are most Land Use Plan 6-3 6/02
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