2030 Comprehensive Land Use Plan - Pitt County Government

TransportationSince the 2002 CLUP was adopted, population growth has continued to put pressure on thetransportation system in Pitt County. The County continues to work with the NC Departmentof Transportation to ensure that the State is aware of local needs.Goal: Provide a transportation system, which will allow for the safe, efficient, andconvenient movement of people and goods.Objective 1:Coordinate transportation planning to ensure that adequate transportation options areprovided to serve existing, developing, and proposed activity centers and denselypopulated areas.Implementation Strategies:• Encourage the continued construction and improvement of limited-access strategiccorridors and other major highways.• Coordinate thoroughfare planning with all local governments.• Maintain a high level of involvement in the bi-annual preparation of the NCDOTTransportation Improvement Program.• Continue to monitor and enforce the airport overlay zone which places heightrestrictions on structures to ensure unobstructed flight paths for Pitt-GreenvilleAirport.• Continue involvement with the Regional Planning Organization (RPO) andMetropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) to ensure transportation coordinationefforts continue throughout the County.Objective 2:Provide for the orderly development of major transportation routes such that disruption offree flow of traffic on major arteries is minimized.Implementation Strategies:• Protect traffic carrying capacities and promote public safety, by adopting an accessmanagement plan to limit access along major and minor thoroughfares.• Require reverse frontage lots for new subdivisions to orient lots toward internalsubdivision streets to minimize ingress/egress conflicts on major and minorthoroughfares.• For non-residential development, require use of frontage roads for access alongmajor thoroughfares.• Minimize commercial strip development characterized by numerous drivewayaccess points and disconnected uses.Objective 3:Protect planned and existing major transportation corridors from premature developmentand incompatible land uses.2030 Comprehensive Land Use Plan Goals and ObjectivesPitt County, North Carolina 2-7