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North Carolina Department of Transportation Office of Planning & Environmental «="!..JSLIW P«I NO Statewide Planning Branch Technical Report for the City of Boiling Spring Lakes Thoroughfare Plan N.C. DOCUMENTS CLEARINGHOUSE OCT 2 7 2004 2002 STATE LIBRARY OF NORTH CAROLINA RALEIGH Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation http://archive.org/details/technicalreportf2004nort Technical Report for the City of Boiling Spring Lakes Thoroughfare Plan Prepared by the Statewide Planning Branch North Carolina Department of Transportation In Cooperation with The Town of Shallotte The Federal Highway Administration U.S. Department of Transportation July, 04 Persons Responsible for this Report: Project Engineer: Kimberly Drew Hinton Engineering Technician Reuben Crummy. Group Manager of Statewide Planning Branch: Daniel L. Thomas, P.E. Manager of Statewide Planning Branch: Mike Bruff, P.E. Table of Contents Table of Contents i Executive Summary 1 Highlights of the 2002 Study Plan 1 Chapter 1 Thoroughfare Plan for the City of Boiling Spring Lakes 7 Urban Thoroughfare Classification 7 2002 Thoroughfare Plan 8 Purpose & Need Statements 8 Major Thoroughfares 8 NC87 8 NC 133 9 Boiling Spring Lakes Connectors 10 West Boiling Spring Road Extension 10 Boiling Spring Lakes (BSL) Parkway 10 SR 1518 (Daw's Creek Road) 11 Minor Thoroughfares 12 SR 1541 Cougar Road Extensions 12 Charlestown/Johnston Road Extension 12 Drayton/Beech Road Extension 12 Northern Crosstown Street 12 Redwood Road Extension 12 Public Involvement 12 Chapter 2 Implementation of the Thoroughfare Plan 15 State-Municipal Adoption of the Thoroughfare Plan 15 Subdivision Controls 15 Land Use Controls 15 Zoning Ordinances 15 Official Maps 16 Development Reviews 17 Funding Sources 18 Capital Improvements Program 18 Transportation Improvement Program 18 Industrial Access Funds 19 Small Urban Funds 19 The North Carolina Highway Trust Fund Law 19 Chapter 3 Existing and Projected Conditions 21 Factors Affecting Transportation 21 Population 21 Economy 23 Environmental Concerns 23 Heritage 23 Historic Sites 24 Park Properties 24 Endangered Species 24 Occurrences 25 Water Quality 25 Wetlands 25 Fish Nursery Areas 25 High Quality Water 26 National Wetlands Inventory 26 Pollution Concerns 26 Superfund 26 Pollution Discharge 26 Traffic 27 Capacity, Width, and Alignment Deficiencies 27 High Frequency Accident Profile 29 Bridge Replacement Program 29 Functionally Obsolete 30 Structurally Deficient 30 List of Tables Table 1 Population & Projections 22 Table 2 Population to Vehicle Registration Comparison 22 Table 3 Minimum Levels of Service for Roads and Highways 28 Table 4 Minimum Tolerable Lane Widths 28 Table 5 High Frequency Accident Profile 29 Table 6 Structurally Deficient Bridges 31 List of Figures Figure 1 Geographical Location 3 Figure 2 2001 Boiling Spring Lakes Urban Area Thoroughfare Plan 5 Figure 3 Idealized Thoroughfare Plan 35 Figure 4 Acquisition Map 37 Figure 5 Environmental Concerns 39 Figure 6 AADT Map 41 Appendix Level of Service Cross Sections Street Inventory Listing of National Heritage Occurrences Comments from Public Forum Traffic Counts & Graphs Recommended Subdivision Ordinances n