LUP (Wake County Update)

Highlights

New text format and updated information regarding Implementation Strategies

The new format makes the Land Use Plan more legible and readable. The Land Use Plan Update 2003 incorporates tables that summarize land use classification information, text boxes that highlight land use concepts and new graphics that illustrate design guidelines.
The Land Use Plan Update 2003 incorporates new information regarding Implementation Strategies. These strategies include additional specificity to Area Land Use Plans, Land Use Plan amendments that will reflect the recommendations of the Open Space Plan, development of the Uniform Development Code and Land Use Plan amendments that reflect the recommendations of the Wake County Transportation Plan adopted in 2003.

The Design Guidelines' goal is to preserve the rural character of Wake County by encouraging higher density and intensity development at activity centers, thereby creating villages.
The sizes of the Activity Centers, from largest to smallest, are Regional, Community and Neighborhood. Activity Centers will focus compact development in mixed-use village centers that include housing, commercial services and employment opportunities designed with convenient pedestrian and vehicular access from the surrounding development areas.
Activity Centers are designed to maximize the benefit of public investment in infrastructure and improve the quality of the existing environment.
Activity Centers emphasize connectivity, transitional development, compatibility of land uses and open spaces that provide public focus and identity for neighborhoods.