Pender County Comprehensive Land Use Plan Transportation Goal 2B.1 Manage the timing, location and intensity of growth by coordinating transportation improvements in accordance with the Comprehensive Land Use Plan and the Coastal Pender Collector Street Plan. Policy 2B.1.1 Ensure that the Pender County Comprehensive Transportation Plan is updated and that it is coordinated with the Comprehensive Land Use Plan. Policy 2B.1.2 Ensure that Pender County’s transportation needs are adequately addressed through the Wilmington MPO and Cape Fear RPO Transportation Improvement Program requests. Policy 2B.1.3 The County should utilize and promote a hierarchical, functional transportation system, that prioritizes needed improvements, and promotes the proper arrangement of land use patterns to ensure and determine the proper levels of service (LOS) to reduce any associated negative impacts to the overall transportation network. Policy 2B.1.4 Adopt regulations that require new developments and individual sites throughout the County to provide vehicular and pedestrian interconnectivity to existing or planned adjacent sites and adjoining developments. Policy 2B.1.5 The County should utilize the legislatively enabled authority vested them to work with public and private partners to explore and implement an array or innovative techniques for financing new surface transportation projects as well as providing improvements to current facilities. Policy 2B.1.6 The County shall work with the NCDOT, MPO, and the RPO to encourage alternative forms of transportation including regional rail, local transit, Transportation Demand Measures such as van-pooling and ride sharing, and an inter-modal transportation system. Policy 2B.1.7 Ensure that the Coastal Pender Collector Street Plan, adopted on May 21, 2007, is used consistently when reviewing and approving new development proposals within the Hampstead and Scotts Hill areas of the County. Consider applying Plan recommendations for roadway connectivity to all new developments countywide. Policy 2B.1.8 As recommended in the Coastal Pender Collector Street Plan, develop a system to track and monitor all future right-of-way dedications, “paper streets�, and stub-outs. Research recorded documents to expand the database
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