2030 Comprehensive Land Use Plan - Pitt County Government

Implementation Strategies:• Work with the NCDOT and other local governments to identify and protect plannedroad corridors.• Adopt a corridor protection plan to ensure that major new highway corridors areprotected from the adverse effects of inappropriate development.Objective 4:Ensure that streets within new developments are properly designed, built, and maintained.Implementation Strategies:• Integrate and coordinate existing and proposed subdivision streets to address suchissues as street jogs, block lengths, and dead-end streets.• Continue enhancement of interconnectivity requirements, and to discourage accesscontrol measures such as barriers, gates, etc.• In addition to requiring that roads be built to NCDOT subdivision standards,investigate with NCDOT the potential for requiring maintenance bond guaranteesfrom developers until maintenance is assumed by the State.Objective 5:Promote the implementation of a “complete streets” policy to provide for alternatemethods of transportation where appropriate and feasible.Implementation Strategies:• Encourage multi-modal transportation efforts, such as "complete streets" whichprovide multiple transportation options including pedestrian, bicycle, and vehiculartransit.• Require sidewalks or pedestrian paths where residential development is withinwalking distance of schools, parks, and other public facilities.• Work with NCDOT to implement a “complete streets” policy to allow constructionof biking and pedestrian paths as part of any new improvement along Statemaintainedroadways.• Encourage the expansion of public transportation options (ie. PATS, GREAT, etc.) toserve rural populations within the County.2030 Comprehensive Land Use Plan Goals and ObjectivesPitt County, North Carolina 2-8