carolina thread trail master plan for union county and participating municipalities

Transcription

1 carolia threa trail master pla for uio couty a participatig muicipalities september

2 2

3 3 Photo by Nacy Pierce

4 table of cotets ackowlegemets... 6 executive summary... 8 itrouctio Carolia Threa Trail chapter 1: greeway beefits Health Ecoomic Evirometal Cultural Trasportatio chapter 2: existig coitios Early History Demographics Ecoomy La Use a Natural Resources Existig Parks a Trails Destiatios Relevat Plaig Documets chapter 3: stakeholer a public outreach Project Timelie Plaig Public Participatio Mappig Priority Routes chapter 4: trail routes Overview Carolia Threa Trail Route Descriptios Priority Corriors Propose Trail Route Maps chapter 5: recommee actios for implemetatio Uio Couty CTT Master Pla Actio Steps

5 Table of Cotets, cotiue chapter 6: costs a fuig optios Costs Fuig figures: Employmet by Iustry, tables: 1. Muicipal Populatio Growth betwee 2000 a Uio Couty Historic a Projecte Populatio Growth Uemploymet Rates La Cover Chage Species That Are Eagere, Threatee, or of Special Cocer Trail Costructio Cost Estimates Trail Costructio Cost Illustratio Commo Local Coservatio Fiacig Sources i North Carolia North Carolia Coservatio Trust Fu Grats Aware i Uio Couty ( ) maps: 1. Coectio Opportuities Iia Trail Marshville Mieral Sprigs Moroe Stalligs Waxhaw Wesley Chapel Wigate foototes appeices:

6 ackowlegemets The followig muicipalities a groups sige resolutios of support at the outset of this effort to work with eighborig commuities a with the Carolia Threa Trail to pla, esig, a buil trails that will coect our commuities: Tow of Hemby Brige Tow of Iia Trail Village of Lake Park Tow of Marshville Village of Marvi Meckleburg Uio Metropolita Plaig Orgaizatio Tow of Mieral Sprigs City of Moroe Tow of Stalligs Tow of Waxhaw Tow of Wigate Tow of Weigto Uio Couty Boar of Commissioers Uio Couty League of Wome Voters Village of Wesley Chapel Carolia Threa Trail Steerig Committee Members for Uio Couty a Participatig Muicipalities: Dryw Blachar Tow Amiistrator, Wigate Doug Britt Seior Plaer, Moroe Vicky Brooks Tow Clerk, Zoig Amiistrator, Mieral Sprigs Athoy Burma Tow Coucil, Marvi Jim Chaffi Parks a Recreatio, Uio Couty Cheri Clark Village Clerk, Lake Park Valerie Coffey Coucilwoma, Mieral Sprigs Jora Cook Tow Plaer, Weigto Shelley DeHart Plaig Director, Iia Trail Nacy Fraza Park Committee, Stalligs Tracy Frost Parks a Recreatio Committee, Stalligs Mary Jo Gollitz Resiet, Uio Couty Barry Gree Commissioer, Wigate Lye Hair Tow Plaer, Stalligs 6

7 Ackowlegemets, cotiue Marie Holla Parks a Recreatio Committee, Wesley Chapel Eri Kirkpatrick Commissioer, Waxhaw Lee Jese Zoig Amiistrator, Uio Couty Nacy Jacobse Resiet, Iia Trail Severi Jacobse Resiet, Iia Trail Joshua Lage Plaer, Wesley Chapel Richar Melto Uio Couty Cooperative Extesio Bria Oli Parks, Tree a Greeway Committee, Iia Trail Katie Ross Plaig/GIS, Waxhaw Bu Stewart Resiet, Waxhaw Lisa Stiwiter Director of Plaig, Moroe Lisa Thompso Seior Plaer, Marvi Jo Waybright Coucilwoma, Lake Park Bill Whitley Parks a Recreatio, Uio Couty Thaks also to the followig iiviuals: Shelley DeHart Steerig Committee Chair Marie Holla Commuity Outreach Subcommittee Chair Travis Morehea Carolia Threa Trail Commuity Cooriator Members of the Techical Avisory Team who assiste i collectig a aalyzig ata, a proposig alterative scearios for cosieratio by the public a the Steerig Committee: Dryw Blachar, Doug Britt, Vicky Brooks, Cheri Clark, Jora Cook, Tracy Frost, Joshua Lage, Richar Melto, Katie Ross, Bu Stewart, Lisa Thompso, Bill Whitley, a Ray Williams. Cosultig services provie by The Trust for Public La: Kelley Hart Project Maager Bob Heuer GIS Services Joh Crotty Lea Researcher Mary Bruce Alfor Coservatio Fuig Research Pollig services provie by Campaig Research + Strategy Ray Williams Resiet, Marvi 7

8 executive summary The culmiatio of a year-log, commuity-rive process, this pla articulates a visio for Uio Couty focuse o ehacig a esurig a high quality of life for resiets, utilizig the couty s uique social, atural, a built assets. Le by the Carolia Threa Trail iitiative, represetatives from muicipal a couty govermets as well as veste orgaizatios a iiviuals worke together i a itesive plaig process to prioritize importat estiatios a trasportatio routes withi the couty. The result of their efforts is a propose system of greeways a trails likig together may of the existig trails, parks, tow ceters, historic sites, a atural features that efie Uio Couty. The Carolia Threa Trail s missio is to brig resources to the 15-couty regio i the south-cetral piemot of North Carolia a the orth-cetral portio of South Carolia i orer to create a itercoecte trail system. The Carolia Threa Trail is iee regioal the propose trails i Uio Couty pla provie likages to Aso, Lacaster, a Meckleburg couties. As such, the Threa ca have sigificat ecoomic potetial for the small busiesses withi Uio Couty by ecouragig regioal travel a outoor recreatio. The propose physical etwork of trails is both ituitive a creative. While the propose etwork of trails spas 100 miles across the couty, much of it utilizes existig ifrastructure a greeways so as to help realize recreatioal a trasportatio potetial withi Uio Couty. Roughly 40 percet of the propose coceptual route was erive from preexistig trails a plas, a 60 percet cosists of trail routes that are ew to the couty a its muicipalities. Of those ew routes, over half woul travel alog roa rightsof-way a a thir woul follow streams...chapter 4 iclues etaile maps of the propose trail segmets. Photo by Nacy Pierce Commuity ivolvemet has bee absolutely essetial to evelopig this visio a pla. Together, key stakeholers have set forth a pla of actio to help actualize the Threa i Uio Couty. 8

9 Executive Summary, cotiue \ At each step i the plaig process, stakeholers weighe potetial costs a fuig challeges to make pla implemetatio feasible. This report iclues a overview of the costs associate with trail costructio a a comprehesive fuig opportuity guie... The guie is a resource ot oly to help ietify potetial fuig. for trail segmets, but also to leverage fuig for the acillary beefits of trails. The 2010 Cesus cofirms that Uio Couty is the fastest-growig couty i North Carolia. People move here because of the couty s woerful rural settigs a proximity to Charlotte. Now is the time to take the steps ecessary to evelop this etwork of trails a provie recreatioal, eucatioal, a ecoomic evelopmet opportuities, while helpig to preserve Uio Couty s atural assets. The followig steps are recommee to implemet this pla (see Chapter 5 for etails): Photo by Nacy Pierce Aopt the Carolia Threa Trail (CTT) Master Pla. Ecourage the icorporatio of this pla by the couty a local govermets as a itegral part of local comprehesive plaig a la use plaig efforts. Buil public support. Develop a miimum of 1.5 miles of greeways each year for the ext 10 years a a miimum of 3 miles of greeways each year thereafter. Strategically pursue trail projects to maximize results a miimize costs. Esure that the project list for the CTT Master Pla for Uio Couty is curret a relevat. 9

10 itrouctio With oversight provie by a Steerig Committee of muicipal, couty, a itereste ogovermetal orgaizatios, resiets i Uio Couty, North Carolia, participate i a locally rive process to create a coutywie Greeway Master Pla... This pla is meat to serve as a guiig ocumet for Carolia Threa Trail evelopmet withi the couty a participatig cities a tows i Uio Couty. The Master Pla iclues a itrouctio to the beefits of greeways a trails, a escriptio of curret coitios i Uio Couty, a summary of the plaig process uertake, a itrouctio to the Carolia Threa Trail (CTT) a its propose route, a a escriptio of recommee implemetatio steps. These actio steps are itee to provie ieas for local govermets to expeitiously a costeffectively put segmets o the grou. The Carolia Threa Trail iitiative, which has helpe to spur the evelopmet of this pla, is a effort to ecourage 15 couties i the south-cetral piemot of North Carolia a the orth-cetral portio of South Carolia to create a itercoecte trail system that will preserve a icrease the quality of life withi the local commuities. This pla presets a coceptual route for trails throughout the couty to receive the CTT esigatio. The rage of la types to be icorporate ca iclue the built eviromet, such as siewalks, as well as willife habitat, evirometally fragile las, farmla, a ope fiels a forests. I geeral, a greeway is a liear corrior of uevelope la preserve for recreatioal use, trasportatio, or evirometal protectio. A trail is a liear route o la or water with protecte status a public access typically for recreatio or trasportatio purposes. For the sake of brevity, the wor trail will be use throughout this pla to ecompass both types of ameities. carolia threa trail The Carolia Threa Trail is a regioal etwork of greeways, trails a coserve las that will reach approximately 2.3 millio citizes. It will lik people, places, cities, tows a attractios. The Threa will help preserve our atural areas a will be a place for the exploratio of ature, culture, sciece a history, for family avetures a celebratios of frieship. It will be for youg, ol, athlete a average. This is a lamark project, a creates a legacy that will give so much, to so may, for so log. The scale of The Threa s coectivity is uparallele a is base o certai guiig priciples a core values: Collaboratio, Commuity Self-Determiatio, Coectivity, Iclusivity, Leverage, a Respect for the La. a Laowers. Collaboratio a commuity self-etermiatio. Collaboratio a commuity self-etermiatio amog the Uio Couty commuities are almost as importat as coectivity. The Master Pla aims to ecourage a collaborative process by which trails are coceive a esige i cooperatio with ajoiig commuities i such a way that a regioal asset is create out of a series of iterrelate local ecisios a actios. Coectivity a iclusivity. Creatig coectios betwee commuities a historical, cultural, a recreatioal attractios is importat. The Carolia Threa Trail seeks to create a regio kow for its ribbos of gree coectig people to oe aother a to their heritage. I offerig the visio of greater commuity iteractio, the program seeks to buil bos amog iverse eighborhoos, as well as affor all resiets greater access to our atural surrouigs. Through this Master Pla, these goals are establishe. 10

11 Itrouctio, cotiue Leverage. The Master Pla s success epes o geeratig aitioal ivestmet of outsie capital i the regio s atural resources. Fuig sources at the local, state, a feeral levels are iclue i Chapter 6. Respect for the la a laowers. Durig the plaig process, Uio Couty commuities etermie the locatio of their segmets of the Threa by havig alterative routes to cosier that iclue public las or property owe by private laholers, icluig evelopers who may wat to offer this ameity to their eighborhoos. The broa corriors feature preset multiple opportuities a ajustmets to the route that ca be icorporate as more laowers are egage. Expert trail builers iicate that trails are built by assimilatig parcels over time i this fashio a that emiet omai is very rarely use. Carolia Threa Trail esigatio. Local trails will retai their ow ietities, whether or ot they are esigate as part of the Threa. The look a feel of the Carolia Threa Trail may vary from commuity to commuity a couty to couty. Desigatio as the Carolia Threa Trail will sigify that a particular trail is part of a pla to create a itercoecte system, a pla create by local commuities workig together with their eighbors to ietify coectio poits a to buil trails that will grow together over time. Iiviual resiets a commuity leaers throughout the Carolia Threa Trail missio area have expresse cocers about the use of emiet omai... While the ecisio to exercise emiet omai is ot withi the Carolia Threa Trail s purview, the orgaizatio oes ot support its use for creatig trails a greeways. It is highly recommee that local govermets aopt this pla with laguage iicatig that they will ot utilize emiet omai i the evelopmet of their trails. Through a iclusive, collaborative process, each couty a the commuities withi that couty ecie where their local trail systems will coect a become part of the Threa. However, ot all local trails will become part of the Carolia Threa Trail...Aalogous to our highway systems, the Threa will evelop as a gree iterstate focuse o likig local trails a regioally sigificat attractios. Other trails will cotiue to exist or be plae but may ot receive the CTT Stock Photo 11

12 chapter 1. greeway beefits Trails ot oly ecourage fries, families, a commuities to iteract with oe aother a ature, they also provie a veue for physical activities such as walkig, joggig, ruig, horseback riig, skatig, a bikig. The beefits of these activities are sigificat a far-reachig. health A lamark report by the U.S. Surgeo Geeral fou that Americas ca substatially improve their health a quality of life by icluig moerate amouts of physical activity i their aily lives. It also fou that health beefits appear to be proportioal to the amout of activity; thus, every icrease i activity as some beefit. 1 Several stuies have fou that access to public gree spaces icreases physical activity levels. A growig boy of research suggests that mere cotact with the atural worl improves psychological health. Gree settigs have bee show to relieve feeligs of axiety a improve our ability to cope with stressful situatios. I some cases, atural spaces provie therapy for coitios such as attetio eficit isorer a improve cogitive fuctio a work performace. I aitio, greeways, trails, a parks provie safe places for kis to play, which is vital i the brai evelopmet of youg chilre. Trails also provie safe routes for peestrias a bicyclists to travel. This separatio from vehicular traffic ca reuce the umber of vehicle-peestria- a vehiclebicyclist-relate acciets. ecoomic The ecoomic beefits of the Threa to Uio Couty will be umerous. For example, accorig to a ecoomic impact stuy complete by The Trust for Public La (TPL) i 2010 for Meckleburg Couty, homes ear parks have higher values. Higher property taxes amoute to almost $4 millio i irect icome to the couty s treasury for FY Aother source of irect icome is sales tax receipts from tourism speig by out-of-towers who came to Meckleburg Couty primarily because of its parks. This value came to more tha $4.3 millio for Meckleburg Couty. Beyo the tax moey, these factors also bolstere the collective wealth of Meckleburgers by more tha $10 millio i total property value a by almost $19 millio i et icome from tourist speig. TPL s stuy for Meckleburg Couty cosiere other specific beefits a coclue that the park system of Meckleburg Couty thus provie the couty i 2009 with reveue of $8.3 millio, a collective icrease of resiet wealth of almost $29 millio, resiet savigs of more tha $922 millio, a muicipal savigs of $25 millio. 2 Uio Couty liear parks are expecte ot oly to brig ew visitors a tourists to the regio a iject ew ollars ito the local ecoomy, but also to promote coectivity betwee tourist estiatios for visitors, as well as local resiets. evirometal The establishmet of trails ca restore atural corriors withi alreay esely populate regios a preserve them i areas soo to be evelope. This is particularly importat i rapily growig areas like the Charlotte regio, where substatial growth ca be positive from a ecoomic stapoit but ca place a very serious strai o the area s atural resources such as water a air quality, ope space,. a willife habitats. If curret growth tres cotiue, treasure atural areas will isappear as vast tracts of la are evelope ito urba areas i the ext 20 years. It is critical that our commuities ba together ow to help preserve atural areas for the health a sustaiability of future geeratios. 12

13 Chapter 1. Greeway Beefits, cotiue Gree space create by these atural corriors helps to mitigate storm-water ruoff a ecourages water table recharge. It also serves as a atural filter, trappig pollutats from urba ruoff that eroe areas a agricultural las, i orer to keep our water supplies healthy. Tree cover provie by these trails cotributes to air quality by removig substatial amouts of particulate matter a carbo ioxie from the atmosphere. Trails also ecourage omotorize meas of trasportatio, which ca sigificatly reuce air pollutats erive from mobile sources, such as automobiles. Reucig overall vehiclemiles travele (VMT) will help to ecrease the amout of pollutats emitte that cotribute to ozoe formatio i the atmosphere. Projects like the Carolia Threa Trail will ehace the peestria eviromet a facilitate walkig a bikig, which is a critical compoet to makig emissios reuctios. The et beefits to the commuity are reuce VMT, which leas to reuce pollutats, thus makig the air safer to breathe. Trails a coservatio corriors help to preserve habitat for may plats, isects, a aimals that are so importat a uique to this regio. Creative iterpretatio of specific evirometal attributes throughout the trail system will eucate the casual visitor a ispire cotiue evirometal stewarship. Coservig the atural eviromet that surrous us is a importat piece of the legacy that we will leave behi for our chilre, grachilre, a great-grachilre. cultural Because the emphasis is o empowerig local commuities a weavig them together, the Threa coul be cosiere a civic egagemet project resse i greeway clothes that will help to buil stroger commuities i may ways. The Threa will provie coectios for ajoiig eighborhoos a social ceters such as schools, churches, cultural istitutios, a other commuity facilities. It will help to reiforce the ietity of eighborhoos through greeway esig by icorporatig public art, recogizig local history, a creatig lamark ope spaces. As a free, accessible commuity asset, the Threa will offer opportuities for recreatio a exercise to everyoe, icluig chilre, youth, a families who might ot be able to affor them elsewhere. The Threa also will offer opportuities for people to experiece a sese of commuity a create stroger social a familial ties. By preservig gree spaces from evelopmet, the Threa will provie safe places for our chilre to play outsie with others from surrouig commuities a will create awareess of oe aother, as well as of the atural worl. As a tagible project that liks people a places, the. Threa will ecourage commuities, leaers, a muicipalities to buil parterships. It will provie a framework a pathway for future regioal iitiatives a will ecourage commuities to act locally while thikig regioally. trasportatio Trails serve as highways for alterate meas of trasportatio. As gas prices rise, commuters look for trasportatio alteratives. If give the optio, more people woul use trails to commute. The Carolia Threa Trail a local Uio Couty trails will give citizes this optio. Accorig to a 1990 Natioal Persoal Trasportatio Survey, more tha half of all commuter trips a three out of four shoppig trips are less tha five miles i legth (ieal for bicyclig), with 40 percet of all trips beig less tha two miles. People who woul oriarily rive to these places will be presete with aother moe of travel, thus helpig to keep cars i riveways istea of o the roa. 13

14 chapter 2. existig coitios Uio Couty is locate i the souther piemot regio of North Carolia, borerig the Charlotte metro regio. Fourtee muicipalities curretly make up the couty: to the west, Waxhaw, Wesley Chapel, Weigto, Marvi, Mieral Sprigs, Iia Trail, Stalligs, Hemby Brige,. a Lake Park; i the ceter, Moroe, Fairview, a Uioville; a to the east, Wigate a Marshville. Moroe is the couty seat a home to the stately 1886 Uio Couty Courthouse. early history The Waxhaw Iias were the origial ihabitats of the couty. 3 The earliest Europea settlers Scots-Irish a Germa immigrats alog with some esceats of New Egla settlers arrive i the mi-eighteeth cetury. Bor amog the Scots-Irish commuity i the Waxhaw regio i 1767 was Presiet Arew Jackso. 4 A iflux of settlers after the Revolutioary War cotribute to the populatio growth of the regio, culmiatig i the creatio of the couty from parts of Aso a Meckleburg Couties i For much of Uio Couty s history, the ecoomy was base o agriculture a cotto was the preomiat cash crop. However, the couty was also home to a sigificat momet i America retail history. I 1888, William Hery Belk opee his first store, a small bargai shop, i Moroe. Toay, Belk is the atio s largest privately hel epartmet store compay. 5 After Worl War II, maufacturig bega movig ito the couty... emographics The populatio of Uio Couty has grow steaily for the past several ecaes, a rapily withi the last 10 years. Sice 2000, the couty s populatio has grow by more tha 77,000 people to a total of 201,992 i 2010 a 62.8 percet icrease four times the growth rate of the state as a whole over the same time perio. 6 It is the fastest- growig couty i the state. Table 1 shows the populatio growth of Uio Couty muicipalities i North Carolia. The racial a ethic makeup of the couty has chage slightly sice As of 2010, the breakow of race by percetage of the total populatio is 79 percet white, 11.7 percet black, 5.3 percet some other race, 1.9 percet two or more races, 1.6 percet Asia America, a 0.4 percet America Iia. 7 The most sigificat chage has bee the icrease of people of Latio or Hispaic origi, as a percetage of the couty s total populatio, from 6.2 percet i 2000 to 10.4 percet i Table 1: Muicipal Populatio Growth betwee 2000 a % Chage % Chage Fairview... 3, Hemby Brige 1,414 Iia Trail 11,749 Lake Park 2,093 Marshville 2,360 Marvi 1,039 Mieral Sprigs 1,370 3,324 1,520 33,518 3,422 2,402 5,579 2, Moroe Stalligs Uioville Waxhaw Weigto Wesley Chapel Wigate 26,228 3,171 4,797 2,625 6,696 2,549 2,406 32,797 10,660 5,929 9,859 9,459 7,463 3, Source: U.S. Cesus Bureau, 2010 Cesus Reistrictig Data (Public Law ) Summary File, Table P1.Busiess Locatio Profile. 14

15 Chapter 2. Existig Coitios, cotiue While Uio Couty still retais its rural character, the percet of the total populatio livig i the uicorporate parts of the couty is ecliig from 69 percet i 1970 to 53 percet i At the same time the populatio is becomig eser, icreasig from people/square mile (mi2) i 2000 to people/mi2 i Much of the growth is occurrig i the areas closest to the Charlotte metropolita area. I step with the populatio icrease i Uio Couty is the icrease i housig uits. I 2000, there were 45,727 total housig uits i the couty. By 2009 that umber icrease 54.3 percet to 70, Over the spa of the past ecae, i aitio to becomig the fastest-growig couty i North Carolia, Uio Couty has become the eighteeth fastest-growig couty i the etire Uite States. 12 As of 2000, the housig stock cosiste primarily of sigle-family homes a the homeowership rate was 80.5 percet. 13 Home builig boome urig the past ecae, a the couty issue 25,479 resietial builig permits betwee 2000 a However, permittig has eclie the past couple of years ue to issues with water ifrastructure capacity a the eclie of the regioal a atioal housig markets. 15 Uio Couty is projecte to experiece substatial populatio growth well ito the future. By 2029, the couty is expecte to reach a populatio over three times greater tha the populatio i 2000, as show i Table 2. ecoomy The Uio Couty ecoomy has grow rapily i the past ecae from the evelopmet of ew resietial commuities a retail ceters to the locatio of ew busiesses i the couty. 16 I 2009, CNN Moey rake Uio Couty 10th best i the atio for job growth betwee 2000 a 2008 ue to a 57.5 percet icrease over that time perio. 17 Much of that growth is tie to the services iustry, but the regio has substatial maufacturig, costructio, a trae iustries. Figure 1 summarizes employmet by iustry as a percetage of total workers (80,319 people). That 10-year growth is also reflecte i other iicators: certifie property values soare from $12.8 millio i 2005 to $21 millio i 2009, almost oublig i four years; a meia househol icomes have jumpe early 32 percet, from $50,622 i 2000 to $66,561 i Figure 1: Employmet by Iustry, % 5% 4% 3% 1% 12% 13% 3% 12% 8% Table 2: Uio Couty Historic a Projecte Populatio Growth Populatio Growth (%Chage) 123, , , , Sources: North Carolia Office of State Buget a Maagemet; e: U.S. Cesus Bureau, 2010 Cesus Reistrictig Data (Public Law ) Summary File, Table P1. 15 Agrucultural, Miig 1% Costructio 12% Fiace, Isurace, Real Estate 8% Maufacturig 12% Public Ami. 3% Source: Charlotte Regioal Partership, Uio Couty, Busiess Locatio Profile. Retail Trae 13% Wholesale Trae 5% Services 39% Trasport, Utilities 4% Other 3%

16 Chapter 2. Existig Coitios, cotiue Table 3: Uemploymet Rates (%) Uio Charlotte Regioal Moroe Couty Partership 22 North Carolia * Photo by Nacy Pierce Although agriculture employs a fractio of Uio Couty s workers, the couty poste the state s thir-highest agricultural sales i 2008 at $454.8 millio. 18 I 2008, Uio Couty was first i the state for wheat prouctio a thir i the state for soybeas...the couty is seco i the state for prouctio of broilers a fourth i turkeys raise. Livestock a poultry sales accout for over 80 percet of total agricultural sales i the couty. Moreover, Tyso Foos a Pilgrim s Prie, as poultry growers a processig plats, employ over 1,500 people. While Uio Couty possesses a substatial a iversifie iustrial base, it has see a ecrease i employmet over the past 10 years. The umber of maufacturig workers ecrease 27 percet from 2000 to Noetheless, over 100 maufacturig a istributio compaies call Moroe home. 20 Turbomeca Maufacturig Ic., a Frech-owe firm, recetly locate a aerospace maufacturig facility i Moroe, a ATI Allvac has complete a $210 millio expasio to its existig facility. 21 The top employers i the couty for 2008 were the Uio Couty Schools, Tyso Foos, Uio Memorial Meical Ceter, ATI Allvac, the couty itself, a Walmart. However, like the rest of North Carolia, Uio Couty has experiece ouble-igit uemploymet sice the. ecoomic owtur i noetheless, as Table 3 Source: Employmet Security Commissio of North Carolia; *2010 average through April. shows, the couty has fare slightly better tha the rest of its ecoomic evelopmet regio a the state as a whole. May resiets are commutig log istaces to work outsie the couty. Nearly half of all Uio Couty workers travel outsie the couty for work, a may are travelig alog US 74 to Meckleburg Couty. 23 As of 2000, the average commute time for Uio Couty workers was 29 miutes. It is safe to surmise that owig to the rapi growth of the couty, resiets will cotiue to experiece loger travel times to a from work. 24 Despite the ecoomic owtur, there still have bee growth a evelopmet opportuities i the regio. Over 1 millio square feet of multiteat retail space was uer costructio as of mi-2008, a aother 3.1 millio square feet were propose i 17 projects. 25 Moreover, the Uio Couty Partership for Progress has propose a 5,000-acre site for future busiess a iustrial park evelopmet. 26 The park woul be situate east of Marshville a is evisioe as a major iustrial a commercial hub accessible to iterstates (such as the future Moroe bypass), airports, a rail lies. 27 Also, the City of Moroe has receive a $2 millio grat for completio of its project to expa a stregthe its airport ruway

17 Chapter 2. Existig Coitios, cotiue la use a atural resources Uio Couty is i the souther piemot physiographic regio. 29 It is characterize by getly slopig hills with steeper areas alog raiage ways. The Catawba a Yaki-Pee Dee River basis rai all of the la i the couty. Elevatio rages from about 275 feet above sea level alog the Rocky River i the ortheaster part of the couty to about 770 feet i a area southwest of Waxhaw i the southwester part of the couty...the couty has a total area of 645 square miles (412,881 acres). 30 The wester sie of the couty, locate just four miles from Charlotte city limits, is esely populate with resietial housig a big-chai retail a restaurats, while the east is more rural. 31 Overall, a majority 61 percet of the la i the couty is agricultural a locate i uicorporate areas, while 31 percet is utilize for resietial purposes. 32 I fact, i 2007, there were 1,107 farms i the couty coverig 178,193 acres. 33 Of the la use for resietial purposes, 27.1 percet is locate i..uicorporate Uio Couty. 34 Much of employmet a commercial uses are locate i icorporate commuities, while a majority of the couty s vacat la is i uicorporate areas. Urba evelopmet over the last 25 years has impacte much of the lascape i the couty, as see i the Table 4. Urba areas have expae sixfol sice Table 4: La Cover Chage (acres) % Chage Trees Grass, crops with. vegetatio, fallow Urba Water 164, ,772 9,619 2, , ,484 73,929 3,260 Source: America Forests, Carolia Piemot Gree Iitiative, Part of the Solutio, Aalysis Report, Uio Couty As of 2003, la cover as a percetage of total couty area was as follows: 46.3 percet grass a cropla, 34.8 percet trees, 18.1 percet urba, a 0.79 percet water...i 1984, urba la cover was oly 2.35 percet of the total area of Uio Couty. The sigificat icrease i the populatio of the couty over the past 20 years has le to icrease urbaizatio. With populatio projectios showig that the couty will cotiue to grow substatially, it is likely this tre i urbaizatio will persist ito the couty s foreseeable future. The North Carolia Natural Heritage Program has ietifie 36 elemets of atural iversity icluig rare plat a aimal species, exemplary atural commuities, a special aimal habitats kow to occur, or to have occurre, i Uio Couty. 35 Amog these are both feerally a state eagere species such as Michaux s sumac, the Carolia heelsplitter (a freshwater mussel), a Schweiitz s suflower. For example, there are two small populatios of the heelsplitter i Uio Couty, oe i Waxhaw Creek, a tributary to the Catawba River, a the other i Goose Creek, a tributary to the Rocky River. 36 Table 5 presets a list of those species curretly or historically i Uio Couty that are eagere, threatee, or of special cocer at the state level. Source water boies i the couty iclue surface streams, grouwater, a lakes a reservoirs. 37 However, the major sources of rikig water are Lake Twitty (orth of Moroe), Lake Lee, a Lake Moroe (both south of Moroe). 38 The couty has aopte regulatios uer the state s Water Supply Watershe Protectio Act to protect those water supplies. The restrictios cover Stewart s Creek, which fees Lake Twitty, a Richarso Creek, which fees ito Lakes Lee a Moroe. 39 Other water resources iclue the Rocky River i the orth a Cae Creek Lake i the southwest part of the couty. 17

18 Chapter 2. Existig Coitios, cotiue Table 5: Species That Are Eagere, Threatee or of Special Cocer Major Group Commo Name State Status Feeral Status Couty Status Ivertebrate aimal Atlatic pigtoe Carolia heelsplitter Creeper Savaah lilliput Notche raibow Carolia creekshell Eagere Eagere Threatee Eagere Special cocer Eagere Species of cocer Eagere Noe Species of cocer Noe Species of cocer Curret Vascular plat Schweiitz s suflower Michaux s sumac Georgia aster Eagere Eagere, special cocer Threatee Eagere Eagere Caiate Curret Historical Curret Vertebrate aimal Mole salamaer Timber rattlesake Carolia arter. (cetral piemot populatio) Loggerhea shrike Robust rehorse Special cocer Special cocer Special cocer Special cocer Eagere Noe Noe Species of cocer Noe Species of cocer Curret Obscure Curret Curret Historical Source: North Carolia Natural Heritage Program (atabase upate April 23, 2010). existig parks a trails Although o state or atioal parks are withi the borers of Uio Couty, there are 97 separate recreatioal facilities withi couty borers 42 of which are owe a operate by the public sector, while the remaiig facilities are private or public-private parterships. 40 The couty is home to Cae Creek Park, a water-base recreatio facility ear Waxhaw that comprises 1,050 acres of la surrouig a 350-acre lake. It is home to miles of multipurpose trails a accommoates various recreatioal activities. The Tow of Iia Trail is home to oe park: the privately owe Ea Love Park, which is locate owtow. 41 However, the tow is scheule to ope a oe-acre evet park o May 14, 2011, a has fialize the purchase of 51 acres of la to buil its first large commuity park. Iia Trail will actively work with commuity orgaizatios, tow committees, a resiets to evelop the park. The tow also has may trails a parks locate i subivisios owe by homeowers associatios. There are may opportuities for greeway evelopmet via private a public parterships. The Village of Lake Park has multiple commo areas, pos, Vetera s Park, a Russell Park. 42 The village is also home to Fre Kirby Park. The park is a small athletic complex for baseball a soccer a iclues a pave walkig path. The couty rus the park. The Tow of Marshville maitais a 13-acre park orth of the owtow. 43 A oe-acre Marshville Mii Park was costructe i 2008 a features walkig trails, beches, picic tables, a grills. The Village of Marvi has plae a costructe segmets of the Marvi Loop, a four-mile walkig circuit, a Chimey s Trail, a atural walkig a horse trail. Marvi has also purchase 28 acres for its first muicipal park, which iclues plas for picic areas, commuity gares, beches, ope fiels, a trails. 18

19 Chapter 2. Existig Coitios, cotiue The Tow of Mieral Sprigs has evelope several miles of atural surface trails for its ew greeway, mostly utilizig voluteer labor. It has acquire early 60 acres eicate to coservatio that will be ope for hikig, moutai bikig, a horseback riig. The tow plas to coect at least five ew a existig subivisios to this etwork of trails a to create trailheas at several locatios alog major thoroughfares. The tow s visio ultimately calls for the greeway to iclue a brach that coects to the owtow area. 44 The City of Moroe curretly has 13 muicipal park facilities withi city borers... While over 60 miles of trails a siewalks are evisioe i the city s Greeway Master Pla (2005), the Dowtow Master Pla (2008) iicates that the owtow oes ot yet have a well-efie peestria trail system to provie itercoectivity iterally a with ajacet eighborhoos. 45 The Tow of Stalligs Coucil approve master plas for the Stalligs Muicipal Park a Fairhave Park i April Curretly uer way, Phase I iclues expasio of Muicipal Park s property to iclue wooe park trails a a ope playig fiel. The Tow of Waxhaw recetly reovate the Davi G. Bares Chilre s Park locate i owtow Waxhaw. Next to Bares Park is the SK8 Skateboar Park. The Harvey Clay Nesbit Park is uer costructio. The Village of Wesley Chapel has playgrous at Wesley Chapel Elemetary School a New Tow Elemetary School. These are the oly public recreatio facilities curretly withi muicipal limits, 47 but the village has acquire 16.5 acres for its first park. The Tow of Wigate has two parks: Wigate Commuity Park a Highla Park Playgrou. Wigate Commuity Park is a 20-acre site complete with two baseballfiels, a multiuse playig fiel, walkig trails, a a chilre s playgrou, while Highla Park Playgrou is a 2-acre pocket park complete with playgrou equipmet a a basketball court. 48. Moreover, Wigate Uiversity is evelopig a two-mile ature walk through a wooe area of its campus. estiatios Citizes of Uio Couty curretly rive, walk, or bike to umerous estiatios throughout the commuity. Whether people are travelig from home to work, to school, or to shoppig, some of these coectios are available by way of the propose coutywie greeway system. Atteees at public iput sessios that were hel i 2010 metioe the followig estiatios most frequetly: Tows, parks, a cultural/recreatio/historic places i Uio Couty: Waxhaw Mieral Sprigs Moroe Iia Trail Cae Creek Park Jesse Helms Park Stalligs Muicipal Park Museum of the Waxhaws JAARS (Museum of the Alphabet) I other couties: Coloel Fracis Beatty Park Arew Jackso State Park Mit Hill Park Water-relate: Twelve Mile Creek Cae Creek Goose Creek Six Mile Creek 19

20 Chapter 2. Existig Coitios, cotiue ietifie Waxhaw. Furthermore, i respose to the questio about the most importat cultural, recreatioal, a atural resources to coect with a trail system, a full 10 percet of those surveye wate to see Cae Creek Park coecte. This percetage was statistically sigificat because the questio was ope ee a resposes for Cae Creek Park were uprompte. CTT Stock Photo. Other importat public facilities that coul be like up by a trail system are Wigate Uiversity a South Piemot Commuity College i Moroe. I Jue 2010, The Trust for Public La commissioe a cosultig firm to couct a survey of Uio Couty resiets to etermie perceptios a attitues o a umber of issues, icluig the ietificatio of places a estiatios that coul be coecte by a system of trails. 49. The estiatios ietifie by listeig-sessio participats corroborate may of the estiatios ietifie by a crosssectio of Uio Couty resiets. For example, of the 403 people raomly surveye, i respose to the questio of which importat tows shoul be coecte, 15 percet sai they wate to see Moroe coecte a 11 percet relevat plaig ocumets I 2006, Uio Couty aopte a Parks a Recreatio Comprehesive Master Pla upate that sets forth strategies for proviig aequate parks a recreatio facilities through The pla iclues the Jesse Helms Park. Site evelopmet, the acquisitio a evelopmet of a North District Park, a, ultimately, over 120 miles of trails. The Parks a Recreatio Comprehesive Master Pla calls for the cultivatio of parterships with the school system a private recreatioal proviers for the expasio of parks a recreatioal activities. It also recommes a icrease i fuig for the coutywie program to assist muicipalities i park evelopmet. The Tow of Iia Trail aopte its first Comprehesive Pla i That ocumet focuse o makig Iia Trail more peestria friely a promotig multimoal trasportatio optios. 51 I the past several years the tow has take steps to esure that evelopmet ivolves peestria facilities by evelopig. a Comprehesive La Use Pla, a Dowtow Master Pla, a the Iia Trail Comprehesive Peestria Pla. The Master Pla provies...a ivetory..of..existig peestria facilities, ietifies eficiecies, a recommes improvemets. The Master Pla coicies with the. tow s Comprehesive Pla. I 2010, the tow aopte. the Park a Greeway Master Pla: A 10-Year Visio Pla 20

21 Chapter 2. Existig Coitios, cotiue Photo by Nacy Pierce to esure the provisio of park a recreatioal opportuities to meet the ees of Iia Trail resiets. Fially, the tow is curretly evelopig a Bicycle Pla, which shoul be complete by the sprig of The Tow of Marshville aopte its La Use Pla i Amog the tow s goals are (1) esurig that the park a recreatio ees of resiets are met a (2) proviig safe a coveiet mobility for resiets. 52 The Village of Marvi iitiate a aopte its Park a Greeway Master Pla to help esure resposible growth for parkla a greeways a to provie maximum recreatioal opportuities for resiets. 53. The pla reflects the commuity s esires for more ope space a recreatio facilities. The ocumet ietifies strategies for builig a etwork of parks a greeways withi the village. The City of Moroe aopte its Parks, Recreatio, Greeways a Ope Space Master Pla i 2002 to guie the irectio of parks a recreatio facility plaig through Moroe the upate its La Developmet Pla. Both ocumets pla for the evelopmet of peestria a bikeway corriors (greeways) for the city. Subsequetly, the city aopte the Greeway Master Pla i 2005 to guie the plaig a implemetatio of a greeway/bikeway system for 10 years... The Tow of Mieral Sprigs iitiate a Visio Pla i 2006 to aress issues of growth. 55 Oe of the results was a la use pla that aresses ope space a recreatioal opportuities. Oe of the goals of the pla is to maitai the tow s high quality of life by protectig ope space throughout the commuity. Recommee actios iclue establishig staars for atural 21

22 Chapter 2. Existig Coitios, cotiue features to be preserve, aoptig a greeway pla, a proviig parks a ope space areas i the tow ceter. The Tow of Stalligs s 2008 Peestria Pla aresses the recet explosio of growth a traffic i the area. 56. The pla seeks, amog several goals, to ecourage the creatio of walkable ceters at strategic locatios, to improve peestria coectivity throughout tow a with regioal greeways a etworks, a to provie more outoor recreatioal activities. The Tow of Waxhaw s Comprehesive Pla 2030 iicates that ew evelopmets i the tow shoul have greeways. 57 I aitio, there are private plas for likig the various greeways. The ocumet also otes that the tow s 2003 Future La Use Pla recommes limitig evelopmet i flooplai areas where trails coul be evelope. The Village of Wesley Chapel s 2009 Comprehesive Parks & Recreatio Pla seeks to aress the rapi rate of growth a evelopmet i the village. 58 Surveys of resiets mae i preparatio of the village s Master Pla iicate strog support for pursuig parks a recreatio iitiatives 77 percet of respoets favore evelopig a active park a 84 percet approve of evelopig greeways i the commuity. The Parks a Recreatio Pla was the e prouct of that public respose. The Tow of Wigate is curretly i the process. of evelopig its first comprehesive pla. The tow. is cocere with promotig commuity, evelopmet, walkability, a a small-tow character. 59 The. pla will provie a framework for future growth a. policy formatio. Photos by Nacy Pierce 22

23 project timelie chapter 3. stakeholer a public outreach May 2010 Jue 2010 July 2010 September 2010 October 2010 November 2010 December 2010 February 2011 March 2011 April 2011 plaig Steerig Committee The steerig committee, comprisig 29 represetatives. from muicipal a couty govermets, iveste orgaizatios, a iiviuals, supervise the C TT plaig process i Uio Couty. The committee ecie o the process for evelopig cross-couty trail coectios a a preferre C T T route i the couty. The committee met five times over the course of the project. Iitial Steerig Committee meetig Commuity Outreach Subcommittee meetig Telephoe poll Commuity listeig sessios Steerig Committee meetig Techical Avisory Team meetig Techical Avisory Team meetig Techical Avisory Team meetig Steerig Committee meetig Iterjurisictioal meetig Techical Avisory Team meetig Ope houses Olie public poll Two Steerig Committee meetigs Greeway Master Pla to be vette by. muicipal govermets. At the iitial meetig i May 2010, the committee agree. o the overarchig CTT pla goals a opportuities. Members. also iscusse the evelopmet of a olie survey,. plae upcomig listeig sessios, a reviewe the roles of the Techical Avisory Team a Commuity Outreach Subcommittee. At a meetig i September 2010, committee members iscusse the results of the public poll a listeig sessios, as well as the propose set of ope houses. I December 2010, the committee fialize the ope house format for the ext Photo by Kelley Hart rou of public iput a braistorme potetial locatios for the evets. The steerig committee also met with the represetatives of surrouig couties to iscuss potetial trail coectios across couty bouaries withi the propose Carolia Threa Trail footprit. At the first meetig i March 2011, committee members briefly iscusse their impressios of the ope houses. They reviewe the raft route selectio factors, evaluate ifferet parts of the stuy area, iscusse the traeoffs betwee ifferet segmets, a ietifie top-priority segmets for the CTT Master Pla for Uio Couty. At the seco March meetig, they agree o a recommee actio pla. (Meetig summaries are provie i Appeix A.) Techical Avisory Team (TAT) The 13 members of the TAT assiste i collectig a aalyzig ata a proposig alterative scearios for cosieratio by the public a the steerig committee. The TAT looke at existig a propose trails a use listeig-sessio results to outlie potetial corriors for trails a estiatios to coect. Over multiple meetigs urig the plaig process, 23

24 Chapter 3. Stakeholer a Public Outreach the TAT reviewe iformatio gathere from the public listeig sessios a create raft coceptual route alteratives that reflect public prefereces, icluig coectig popular estiatios. Commuity Outreach Subcommittee (COS) The COS was istrumetal i avertisig for the listeig sessios, ope houses, a olie survey. Team members reache Uio Couty resiets by , telephoe, web postigs, flyers for busiesses a muicipal builigs, a ewspaper a raio aoucemets. The COS a some mayoral offices (at the request of the COS) set out persoal ivitatios by paperless post to over 1,000 resiets o sushie lists. Evet times, ates, a locatios were poste o commuity calears. Uio Couty commissioers were persoally ivite over the phoe. A press release was publishe i the Charlotte Observer a the Equirer Joural a broacaste o WSOC. These efforts, i cojuctio with s set to homeowers associatios, postigs o commuity calears, a flyers istribute throughout Uio Couty commuities, helpe to brig substatial umbers to the evets. (Public outreach materials are provie i Appeix C.) public participatio Rou 1 (Jue July 2010): Public Poll a Listeig Sessios The Trust for Public La commissioe a pollig firm to couct a telephoe poll of 403 people i Uio Couty to etermie resiets geeral attitues towar trails a the Photo by Kelley Hart 24

25 Chapter 3. Stakeholer a Public Outreach outoors. Sixty-six percet of those surveye egage i outoor recreatioal activity withi 20 miles of their home with regular frequecy (from sometimes to very frequetly). Fifty-ie percet of participats iicate that the creatio of, a access to, trails are importat a woul icrease trail use. A majority of respoets were willig to fu programs for programs to purchase la for coservatio purposes. Survey participats also provie more etaile iformatio about estiatios for coectio i a trail system. Fiftee percet sai they wate to see Moroe coecte a 11 percet iicate Waxhaw. Te percet of participats explicitly metioe Cae Creek Park as a importat atural or cultural resource to coect by trail. Durig the week of July 19, 2010, four public iput meetigs were hel i ifferet parts of Uio Couty: Weigto, Waxhaw, Iia Trail, a Moroe. The meetigs rew a total of 86 stakeholers a members of the geeral public. Steerig Committee members were preset at each meetig a helpe facilitate ialogue amog atteees. CTT a TPL provie a itrouctio to the Threa Trail visio a greeways i geeral. Meetig participats aswere questios, iscusse beefits a cocers associate with trails, a took part i a charrettestyle workshop i which they rew o maps to iicate where they wishe to see trails or estiatios. Rou 2 (February 2011): Ope Houses a Olie Survey I early February 2011, a total of 200 Uio Couty resiets participate i four ope houses Moroe Aquatic Ceter, Wigate Commuity Ceter, First Friay i Waxhaw (at the Woma s Club), a Extreme Ice Ceter to share their opiios about potetial CTT routes. Participats were aske to ietify the most importat a least importat segmets for Uio Couty. A olie survey was mae available to collect public iput. Survey participats share writte commets i aitio to selectig importat segmets a estiatios. Two hure eight people respoe betwee Jauary 28 a February 28. Eighty-seve percet of those who took the olie survey i ot atte the ope houses...sevety-oe percet sai they wate to see Waxhaw coecte a 46 iicate Weigto. Similarly, 70 percet of participats selecte Cae Creek Park as a importat park to coect by trail. Participats were also aske to ietify the most importat a least importat segmets for Uio Couty. Attractios i the wester part of the couty (particularly Waxhaw) omiate the lists of preferre estiatios. That may reflect the high percetage of olie participats who were from zip coe 28173, which ecompasses Waxhaw. The choice of preferre estiatios a trail segmets also iicates that Uio Couty resiets woul like to coect atural a cultural estiatios i parts of the couty where the populatio esity is higher. mappig priority routes The Steerig Committee reviewe route selectio factors a weighe the pros a cos of ifferet segmets. The followig factors guie committee members i their aalysis of potetial routes: public preferece (from ope houses a the olie survey) regarig segmets to iclue a estiatios to coect; the reaiess of the route a whether there is political will; existig trails a trail plas; regioal access (coectig to other couties i the Threa footprit) or other regioal beefits; low costs (for builig or maitaiig); fuig availability for esig, costructio, or maiteace; aesthetics; a likely capacity of the propose right-of-way (e.g., if the terrai or the right of way permit a suitable with trail). The maps i Chapter 4 reflect the Steerig Committee s recommeatios for the locatio of the Carolia Threa Trail through Uio Couty. 25

26 Chapter 3. Stakeholer a Public Outreach Photo by Kelley Hart 26

27 chapter 4. trail routes overview After two thorough rous of etaile public iput, the CTT plaig process culmiate i a propose system of trails for Uio Couty. The map o page 28 isplays the etire propose CTT system i Uio Couty as well as regioal coectio opportuities. Map 1. Coectio Opportuities The coceptual CTT Uio Couty route is the quarter-mile-wie purple lie that stretches 100 miles through the couty a coects to other CTT sectios i the west a orthwest to Meckleburg Couty, i the east to Aso Couty, a i the southwest a south to Lacaster Couty, South Carolia. While the trail itself will be much arrower (likely 6 to 12 feet wie), the coceptual route iclues a opportuity swath i recogitio of the fact that commuities etermie the exact locatio of their CTT segmets a process that etails alteratives that may iclue public las or property owe by laholers, such as evelopers who wat to offer this ameity to their eighborhoos. This coceptual route iclues about 1.7 miles of existig greeways, a it icorporates 34.3 miles of trails that were alreay propose by local govermets i Uio Couty. So about 34 percet of the propose Carolia Threa Trail coceptual route was erive from preexistig trails a plas, a 64 percet 64.6 miles cosists of trail routes that are ew to the couty a its muicipalities. Of those ew routes, 38 miles woul be alog roa rights-ofway, 21.5 miles alog streams a river corriors, 4.3 miles withi utility rights-of-way, a aother short segmet via ew trail. The propose trail brigs much of the couty together. Eight of the 14 muicipalities i the couty woul be coecte by the CTT. More tha 28 percet of all couty resiets live withi a half-mile of the propose trail route. Almost 50 percet of Uio Couty seiors a chilre live withi this propose CTT service area, as o 33 percet of low-icome househols. 60 CTT Stock Photo 27

28 Map 1. Coectio Opportuities 28

29 Chapter 4. Trail Routes Carolia Threa Trail Route Descriptios Type Descriptio A Roa right-of -way New trail Propose trail From the Meckleburg Couty lie, follow Stalligs., the the propose trail to Oak Sprigs. Take the ew trail to coect to the propose trail alog Crooke Creek. Go south, pickig up Wesley Chapel Stouts. util the segmet es at the coectio with segmet B. Miles 7.7 B Roa right-of -way Propose tra From the Meckleburg Couty lie, follow Campus Rige. to Ol Moroe., joiig the propose trail alog Ol Moroe., which turs ito Ol Charlotte Hwy. Cotiue o propose trail util it es at segmet C (City of Moroe propose trail). 9.9 C Propose trail From segmet B, follow the propose trail south through Dickerso Park towar Belk Toawaa Park. The follow the propose trail south alog Charlotte Ave., to Mai St., the Frakli St. The hea orth o Suset Dr. to Quarry., the south alog the Richarso Creek propose trail to Flag Brach, eig at Jesse Helms Park. 8.9 D Roa right-of-way From segmet C i Jesse Helms Park, follow Presso. east to Hwy. 74. Cross the railroa o Egewoo Dr. ito the Wigate city limits. Make a right oto Elm St., right o Bives St., a left oto Wilso St. Follow Wilso it turs ito Asoville. Make a right oto Phifer., which turs ito Phifer St., a eter Marshville. From there procee to Elm St., to Uio St., to Olive Brach St. coectig Legacy Developmet. The take Ol Lawyers., eig at the Aso Couty lie E Propose trail From the juctio with segmet F, follow the propose trail orth alog Price Mill Creek, eig at segmet B. 6.5 F River corrior Propose trail From the Lacaster Couty lie, follow Twelve Mile Creek east util it evetually jois the propose trail alog the creek eig at the segmet E juctio G Roa right-of-way Existig trail River corrior From the juctio of segmets J a K, take Waxhaw Hwy. to McNeely. The go to Mieral Sprigs Greeway alog the Bates Brach, cotiuig util the e at segmet F. 3.9 H Propose trail River corrior Roa right-of-way From segmet C, follow Charlotte Ave. to Lacaster Ave. The go o to Griffith., Victoria Ave., the Crescet St. At Richarso Creek, go south alog the creek to Griffith. The o to McMaus., to Latha., to Ol Highway., a fially to Lacaster Hwy., eig at segmet J I River corrior From the Lacaster Couty lie, follow Waxhaw Creek orth a east eig at segmet J. 9.8 J Roa right-of-way From Lacaster Couty lie, follow Proviece. orth to Harkey., coectig to Cae Creek Park. The take Harkey., to Potter., to Ol Waxhaw Moroe., to Robiso., to Wester Uio School., eig at juctio with segmets G a K K Roa right-of -way River corrior From the juctio with segmets G a J, take Waxhaw Hwy. west, to Mai, to Waxhaw Marvi., to Twelve Mile Creek, eig at segmet F

30 priority corriors Stakeholers ietifie three priority corriors to evelop specific plas. These corriors were sigle out to be iclue i the actio pla because, base o the same criteria that etermie propose trail routes, they were particularly urget, especially importat, a likely to get built i the ear term. These corriors also coul appreciably beefit from beig highlighte i the pla, or help give mometum to CTT implemetatio i Uio Couty. Steerig Committee members omiate segmets for cosieratio a the vote o their top three. Stalligs to Iia Trail Route. From the Meckleburg Couty lie, this propose route follows Stalligs Roa, the a propose trail (i the Stalligs Peestria Pla) to Oak Sprigs Roa. It coects to a Iia Trail propose trail that evetually follows Crooke Creek a heas south, pickig up Wesley Chapel Stouts Roa. This segmet has priority status because these two commuities have alreay aopte peestria plas that iclue much of this route. Also, the public iput reveale great iterest i trails that coect to Meckleburg Couty.. Iia Trail to Wesley Chapel Route. From Segmet F at New Tow Roa, this route follows the propose trail orth alog Price Mill Creek, eig at Segmet B o Ol Moroe Photo by Nacy Pierce Roa. This segmet has priority status because it seeks to coect to Cae Creek Park, the most popular estiatio ietifie by the public. Also, it utilizes trails alreay propose by a muicipality as well as potetial routes ietifie i the Local Area Regioal Trasportatio Pla (LARTP). Route from Meckleburg Couty to Moroe. From the couty lie, this propose route follows Campus Rige Roa to Ol Moroe Roa, jois a propose trail alog Ol Moroe Roa, turs ito Ol Charlotte Hwy., cotiues o a existig propose trail, a es i Moroe. This segmet has priority status because it cuts across the couty, proviig liear park access to resiets ear the ceter of Uio Couty. Also, this trail coul potetially be evelope as part of a roa expasio/improvemet project, which woul help keep costs comparatively low for aligmet a costructio. propose trail route maps The maps o the followig pages provie a etaile represetatio of the propose routes i Uio Couty. The prouct of extesive public iput a commuity ivolvemet, these maps articulate Uio Couty s visio for a coutywie a regioal trail system. 30

31 51 V U 3143 Stalligs Muicipal Park M 3174 S m A g ur b ty ll 485 D C a L ter R o se G e ag Fl ve ro ll G stick De ep ia Go o r ie ir v k ee Fa r w e tt ms R Bl ts u Yo Mo s Dr v Bl v Ci r Se m m 1004 V U m re e k ge s cre ek Cre D ak t ek R i pli Po D avis Mi Al w le r R Se cr e st R Iia Tr a il R am Price Fr i th No r p s o rk Fo Sim o or Go os k Price yr D a ir W llow i st Fo rk hur ch hc A tio c M i e Fowl er R The Uio CoutyH Carolia Threa Trail coectio opportuities are G oo owey Bo epicte with ¼ mile wie tto lies to illustrate coectios betwee estiatios, but ot precise routes. The broaly efie corriors preset multiple opportuities for ajustmets for a efie route, so that laowers a the commuity ca cotiue to be ivolve i fie tuig a efiig the locatio of trails a ameities. Go os T r a il ec m ha wo o Dr ig Cu I R vil le Cu t U io ho rt R Mi D W S rs ye m e rbury rch Chu r R w La Dr er C ir ybre Dr Jame s H s art C re rook P st L Fore ek Map create by the Trust for Public La o March 24, 2011 Special thaks to the followig ata proviers: Uio Couty, Iia trail, a ESRI. kwy Co x A c es e ile Cr elv e M Tw u Be av W ke Iformatio o this map is provie for purposes of iscussio a visualizatio oly. TPL, The Trust for Public La, a The Trust for Public La logo are traemarks of The Trust for Public La. Copyright 2011 The Trust for Public La. Create i ArcMap Map Projectio: NAD 1983 UTM Zoe 17N re e k ec Dr Re 1582 rly V U ve ith Fa k Commo Area m ca R W Du r Fo Be ir Veteras Park ch ur Ch A is r Sa ok s er W th oo s Ki w e amara Mi No ifer C o E ce h RussellC Park reft y wy rr so ti oo W t e S Hw Fre Kirby Park W 74 yes Ha 1009 V U Ch arlo tte H ek Cre se I le w il R 74 Wa y se oo ig l Pl y ler Trail vil l e Iia O Ea Love Park Pk R Ho Mill u s e L or W io est _io ^ pr U e il R Tra ia _ ^ ks e ep R le La k L Oa I si m Roberts-Hargett House _ Price ^ U House rm he w Fa at t Sm ith E B D o e Pi er M o ro e m F O l m h Churc Rock Hill MECKLENBURG CO. REGIONAL SPORTS COMPLEX p V U k ewoo Erest Austi-Deese _ House ^ 1008 V U a i bb Gr Ha Plea sa t Plais 1364 h a a tl stu Che e Ficher Bl m Cr eek Moroe ^ _ Regioal Airport Ga 3448 V U H Sa v g ill tree Dr c h ar C ir m m B 1349 hu rch uth F S Pl r ek Ari C r eek 1357 V U is E Rogers Cyrus Mario Rogers House _ ^ E ast F or w V U elv Dr k Mi le Cree eter rate C rpo se C Uio Couty - Propose Carolia Threa Trail V U V U Iia Trail, NC ro Cre urc h Mi le D r D L Golmi er 31 River N Rocky H ie l C h 1362 V U Twe lve aw ± i A 3468 V U Sim f 1344 V U Cam e m 1 Miles r Fo 3456 V U COLONEL FRANCIS J. BEATTY^ _ io U V U 1345 ty REGIONAL PARK u Co Dr Tr 0.5 Po tte Duca R k th Fo ly Ba ptist C e Churc h o k oa 3445 e el l ich M Ama a Dr Oak s 0.25 River Waterboies Fo r xb Iterstate ek Highway MajortoRoa tig u le c Roa HLocal Other C Twe Ch urch l ve M il Railroa Moroe Coector Cre e Ea b ee 0 Propose Carolia Threa Trail Existig Trail Propose Trail r Parks Ci Coservatio Area Dr oe Destiatios reyst Schools Iia Trail Couty Bouaries Da L My k r lersbrook No r ilto R g R Wil lis Lo St ew m ber Dr wo o Ha y Go Re w oo l D Cr r es td r Dr C re tho re e L lly e k Ha w e Cre Ch a G r re ek P ar k R S Sh a s e Ha rtis M ec C k le ou St ev ye Park Lake N Br a o Oaks L ta lli gs R Tr ai l South Fork R ia I S Co Ch ap el ft ai rc ro th wy Dr ave W es l ey V U e ho Hem by Lege _ ^ m 84 Dr Cam pus Ri ge R Potte r ills D r G Cr o rt R po Air Wa x haw Iia Trail H ills Dr L R ree k Hill Tre e e mm o Rai r Fr i e s hi lv e Mile C ree r ee k Sto uts Co pel Cha ey Fo rk W es l B Tw e Cob b Gr Pro viece Dr ses H or V U try gto M atthe ws Wei Cari L G i ge D r Dr Map 2. Iia Trail lah g i T

32 Uarco St E Hwy 74 L Map 3. Marshville Hwy 205 D Negro Hea Creek Wie M outh Bra ch Pryor Hamilto Crossroas UV 1751 m UV 205 Ol Peachla Forest Park Leaf Dr Dr m 74 ^_ Marshville Park Olive Brach St Frakli St Clover Shay L Hasty Stegall Thomas St St College St E Phifer St Hallma Dr Alle W Phifer St Dr E Uio St Church St Mill Va Euy E Mai St N Elm St Uio St W E Marshville Blv Traywick Ewars Memorial Library Perry L Ross St Olive Brach Ext W Marshville Blv Gree St Log St Hambrick W Mai St St S Elm St Lakeview Dr Helms Efir S White St Pl Morga Phillips Saers Hasty Gree Ol Hwy 74 Acres C M James Lasfor Ol Pagela Marshville Doctor Blair J J Autry Austi Grove Church Phifer D Uio Couty - Propose Carolia Threa Trail Marshville, NC Buck Brach N egro Hea Creek Brach Buck Lick Brach Buck Brach D Negro Hea C r eek Lick Brach Lick Brach ick Brach ram Cre ek Beave Bearam Creek Bearam C reek Beaveram Creek Beaveram Beaveram Creek The Uio Couty Carolia Threa Trail coectio opportuities are epicte with ¼ mile wie lies to illustrate coectios betwee estiatios, but ot precise routes. The broaly efie corriors preset multiple opportuities for ajustmets for a efie route, so that laowers a the commuity ca cotiue to be ivolve i fie tuig a efiig the locatio of trails a ameities Miles Lege Propose Carolia Threa Trail Parks Coservatio Area ^_ Destiatios m Schools Marshville River Waterboies Iterstate Highway Major Roa Local Roa Other Railroa Moroe Coector ± Special thaks to the followig ata proviers: Uio Couty, City of Moroe, a ESRI. Map create by the Trust for Public La o March 24, 2011 Creek Create i ArcMap Map Projectio: NAD 1983 UTM Zoe 17N TPL, The Trust for Public La, a The Trust for Public La logo are traemarks of The Trust for Public La. Copyright 2011 The Trust for Public La. Iformatio o this map is provie for purposes of iscussio a visualizatio oly. Negro Hea Creek Brach Austi Hea Creek Negro S Forest Hills School Ol Moroe Marshville Vace Pierce 32

33 ir B S Potter W Map 4. Mieral Sprigs Ol Waxhaw Moroe Waxhaw F arms Essaw Yamasee Ol Proviece Murphy L F Mieral Sprigs Greeway ^_ Pleasat Grove Campgrou ^_ UV 75 Mieral Sprigs Music Bar ^_ Arew Jackso Family Farm ^_ ^_ Museum of the Waxhaws m Robiso Grove C Blythe Cr eek McNeely Br ach Rus hig Bow Hill Dr P op l ar B ates Brac h McNeely ra ch Plaxico Dr Happy Hollow L School Crow Wester Uio m Howie Mie LeeMassey Deer Cre ek Dr Steeple Chase ^_ Crestwoo Dr Salewoo Dr Sprigview Tom Laey Forest GreeDr Dr Collis HighGap Lee Brach Doster Mceely Kotty Pie Valley Farm Eubaks St Waxhaw Hwy Ol Baker Cir Sa ler Waxhaw Moroe Grover Rogers G K J Blyt he Cr ee k Blythe C reek Twelve MileCre ek ch BatesBra lythe Creek B Brach Bates B ates Brach Waxhaw Iia Pleasat Grove Dr Raymo Austi Gree Trail Salerige Tarkill Brac h Joh Baker View Autum Dr Bl aze Ct i ig Oaks Tr Porter Dr Jeae Dr Church Machie Brach Pleasa t Sprigs Potter Dows Dr Keigto Dr Howie Mie Shao Little Creek TwelveMile Creek F Uerwoo Creek Roscoe Howey Bloomsberry L Turtlewoo LittleCr eek Li Billy Howey Laurel Hill Dr ttle Cree k New Tow Crestgate Dr Verrazao Dr Dr Buggy WhipL Uio Couty - Propose Carolia Threa Trail Mieral Sprigs, NC The Uio Couty Carolia Threa Trail coectio opportuities are epicte with ¼ mile wie lies to illustrate coectios betwee estiatios, but ot precise routes. The broaly efie corriors preset multiple opportuities for ajustmets for a efie route, so that laowers a the commuity ca cotiue to be ivolve i fie tuig a efiig the locatio of trails a ameities. Lege Propose Carolia Threa Trail Existig Trail Propose Trail Parks Coservatio Area ^_ Destiatios m Schools Mieral Sprigs Miles ± River Waterboies Iterstate Highway Major Roa Local Roa Other Railroa Special thaks to the followig ata proviers: Uio Couty, Wesley Chapel, a ESRI. Map create by the Trust for Public La o March 24, 2011 Create i ArcMap Map Projectio: NAD 1983 UTM Zoe 17N TPL, The Trust for Public La, a The Trust for Public La logo are traemarks of The Trust for Public La. Copyright 2011 The Trust for Public La. Iformatio o this map is provie for purposes of iscussio a visualizatio oly. Creek Twe lve Farm Mile Cree Creek Dr ilver S Rosehill Dr WoowisDr Saty Dr k Kare L 33

34 F 1362 Bl a W i i E bl e 1008 rib Sm i th Fa Po tte rr ew m e er ar Cir Pi o s m To w v ill Ple _ ^ a sat G Pleasat Grove Campgrou ro ve Pk re ek O l ek M o ro e R m w e Ho ey e i g r rd E _ ^ V U 84 y Hw Dr aw xh Wa to 74 Wa y Dr Hw Ol e - Twelv Rogers For k R ax W y Veteras Park M ile y m re ut r Cir R Dr Sa 1349 V U C Gol m 1150 Weigto L 75 V U V U ie Deer Tra H C o or k R is 1009 Jame s W Uio vill Ha ears k worth Dr U V B R tk Wa m Moroe Regioal ^ _ Airport k Hw A m ch ur Ch 74 is r h urc se Ch yes Ha Ol C ha rlo tte W Sa Fre Kirby Park r ly Cyrus Mario Rogers House Fa m loughby Wil m m e S ft C ir ife o r C ir e Be v D rr te os Pric e reek ek la Ro r m m m Parks Williams Athletic Wil Ceter C ts st a e I ia Tr Se cr e m W Ar os ev el tb lv r R ree k arts C ek Cr e U V H St ^ _ m 2139 V U h a r so C 207 V U t 601 ki sr L m St e reek w Po _ ^ ha Ric r Fla arso C _ ^ ^ _ m erli k ee lv lt B ev e oos m m er V U Ru s R il re Baucom R Hery aw rl Ca ye rs Ol o St a Br Fl s h c lm He ive Ol Miles ± i gb r W ch reek o Mas Stitt S t Cr Richar so o o Ag oroe M m R White St or e Ma s Fork To Le V U 1751 r Iformatio o this map is provie for purposes of iscussio a visualizatio oly. TPL, The Trust for Public La, a The Trust for Public La logo are traemarks of The Trust for Public La. Copyright 2011 The Trust for Public La. Map create by the Trust for Public La o March 24, 2011 Special thaks to the followig ata proviers: Uio Couty, City of Moroe, a ESRI. Ol Moroe Create i ArcMap Map Projectio: UTM Zoe 17N Ma rsnad 1983 h ville R m^ _ Wigate Uiversity W Elm m St ye S t D W illi am Wigate Park y Dair Summer li C Cr ee k ille Asov Moroe Jesse Helms Park E Hwy 74 Pre _ ^ Extesio sso R ch B ob w B Rilla Ham Propose Carolia Threa Trail River i Existig Trail Waterboies Propose Trail Iterstate mr le a Propose Bike Route Highway ws Ne Parks Major Roa Coservatio Area Local Roa Destiatios Other Cre k Schools Railroa City of Moroe Moroe Coector Lege Bra ch h ac Br E s ill g C e k Trail coectio opportuities are The Uio Couty Carolia Threa epicte with ¼ mile wie lies to illustrate coectios betwee estiatios, but ot precise routes. The broaly efie corriors preset multiple opportuities for ajustmets for a efie route, so that laowers a the commuity ca cotiue to be ivolve i E fie tuig a efiig the locatio of trails a ameities. L el ake D Lake Twitty _ ^ Helm F la g Tom b Villa g Lake Lee ER Bo Tom To m Walku p v A craft A v A sh i Quarry D Cr t Church Belmo ott t Curtis Be StExt Cre D eese R e pi Baucom D Ch ick Chaey C hicke pi C re e k E U ioville Iia Trail m as C ck pi Cre e Fr am kl i S Dr E K Three ek E Su mset C E Wisor St kli St _ ^ W Wisor St Suset 2180 Park W Fra Fairley Av W ichester Av Park E East Av e Dees c h P eigar mr St ek W Phife r C Creft Icemorlee St Bear s o ers m m Dickerso Park & Gym v Ro le Fow st For k yr u r ch Pr ice D air Ch ut Hw _ ^ a h oo W Trail e Iia y le r Ea Love Park E Uer w e os I r h N ort w R irvie Fa Uio Couty - Propose Carolia Threa Trail City of Moroe, NC Roberts-Hargett oo Arew Cr Jackso Family Farm _ ^ Ne w N _ House ^ U _ i^ _ ^ o Price House rm tth B c h V U V U B G a St rt h ia k Fo ve gs M a lli Waxhaw Iia Trail I S oo bw t o R h ill Dr L i ttle C Ch am il R South Fork R Tr a ia Fo rk e Ro sc o Bra o Oaks wy Jim Pa r ker R C W es le y i rc ark R Lake P ts R el S tou Ch ap ro ft ith re e Ai ky Ro c Tr Stiso Hart ai is l L rt e M Po w K e lf Wo ha ersbrook Fa rest Sec m roo o ay wo o Fl e B er tch so S Joh St g S Br a g li r oe ber Dr Ch am r po rt Ri v er s My er N Ro cky R ive r L ck Duca S er St S Hay e Park S 34 Me vie h owey R Billy H so Ch urc N Fox il lis L o g re aoke Ro or th F m Zeb Helms Be av er am C ree ms l ia Di ck ilto R i C D ste ra Wil St ew ar La ca s te rh wy e Clarec la ge Pa r i th r La c a B ela Pag l Av Stew Ste wa rt s Co c o r ki ho m JT tc C Oakale ak l e Mi e ffor Sta Ea Bl v er ov S We s t Dr r fo O re Gr i ffith ut so Cree k g e D Uioville Mill R Morg a Ea s ar s g Hil lcrest Church Skyway Dr e t as C rt ps Rich ar Broome St L e Pr i c o Sh Cr mo Wit Fork ys a R ic Love rlotte Av Cha Maurice St ek re ile C lve M Twe East Fork N Sycamor e Gro ve re r eek im 74 St g Hill v N S e crest A Hw y pi C L a Pl ple Ma Po ek r Dr ooke C Cr le e R m Far s w ee k r L oo Tr ail t w Be Fl ag B ra hf rk r v tc or Rig r C ts Sh ra kb lic mp m uco Ba a hit e u Yo est S tu arso Rich Al ek cke Ol Ci k ull B ra c h cr Se Ch o Dr Cocor Hwy am C e Ol Mea ow Br a c h e e St R pli Po R lto N Ma i Mo l o ar s ic h St e R Iia hi y Rich ill M M Lo ve Pu r s ity cer Si haey Au s ti C k Bl Cr M e m N Ca NB ive cityre M Appeix I. Carolia Threa Trail Public Meetig Summary, cotiue S e c r e e m uc o Si ke s Ba R ler ch Al p e I ur Fo E Ch Po lk ig Ha h i tso Wa i So o A Map 5. Moroe y ree k Dr D

35 l N Map 6. Stalligs UV 3445 L UV 1345 Twelve Mile Cr eek Ficher Pioeer UV 3468 UV 1008 m Raitree Dr Wesley Chapel Stouts ie Creek UV 3448 UV 1009 ^_ Erest Austi-Deese House B m ^_ ^_ m ^_ A m Meckleburg Couty Uio Couty UV 3456 UV 1344 UV Uio Couty - Propose Carolia Threa Trail 3135 Stalligs, NC UV 3143 UV 1362 Waxhaw Iia Trail W Hwy 74 Davi sm Creek COLONEL FRANCIS J. BEATTY REGIONAL PARK ^_ Mcleo Iia Brook Dr Saris Church Cr o oke Weigto Matthews A ri g 74 UV 1357 UV 51 UV 1364 Stalligs Muicipal Park 485 UV 3174 Ea Love Park DaybreakDr Camero CreekDr Ha mmo Dr Potter a Dr South Fork Fait h ill Chestut L L Simfiel Church Woerl S Iia Trail P Ol Moroe lyler Church Roa Lakewoo Proviece Hi Uioville Iia Trail Ext Dr W U ioville Iia Trail Savaah Gribble Russell Park Tow Square UV 1582 Fre Kirby Park lls Hills Dr Dr Roberts-Hargett House Price House A Twel ve Mile Creek Veteras Park Youts Cir Short Cut Pleasat Plais Creft Frieship Dr Smith Farm A e St Trail Secrest Campus Rige Matthews Iia Coifer Cir UioWest Blv Va Bure Av M oser Cir Beverly Dr Faith Church Nor th F ork E Iepeece Blv ort h Fork Oak Sprig Eerbury Stalligs Dr Stiso Iia Trail Hartis Fairview MECKLENBURG CO. REGIONAL SPORTS COMPLEX UV 1004 m Re Later Steves Mill Mill Grove Goose Creek Ilewil Go o s ecreek Marshall Hooks Dr Hawthore Gol Crest Shaamara L Dr Rewoo Dr Kiwelly L Mill House G oose Creek The Uio Couty Carolia Threa Trail coectio opportuities are epicte with ¼ mile wie lies to illustrate coectios betwee estiatios, but ot precise routes. The broaly efie corriors preset multiple opportuities for ajustmets for a efie route, so that laowers a the commuity ca cotiue to be ivolve i fie tuig a efiig the locatio of trails a ameities. Lege Propose Carolia Threa Trail Existig Trail Propose Trail Parks Coservatio Area ^_ Destiatios m Schools Stalligs Couty Bouaries Miles ± River Waterboies Iterstate Highway Major Roa Local Roa Other Railroa Moroe Coector STEVENS CREEK NATURE PRESERVE Haywoo Special thaks to the followig ata proviers: Uio Couty, Iia Trail, City of Moroe, Stalligs, a ESRI. Map create by the Trust for Public La o March 24, 2011 Create i ArcMap Map Projectio: NAD 1983 UTM Zoe 17N TPL, The Trust for Public La, a The Trust for Public La logo are traemarks of The Trust for Public La. Copyright 2011 The Trust for Public La. Iformatio o this map is provie for purposes of iscussio a visualizatio oly. Rocky River N Popli North Fork Cuigham L Goose Creek Deepwoo P l Dr W Lawyers Go osecreek Dr Four Woo Uio 35

36 C Map 7. Waxhaw E Uio Couty - Propose Carolia Threa Trail m Waxhaw, NC Twelve M Avati Dr Wigar Tow New Silver Creek Applegate Tw elve M Twelve Mil Twel vemi Crae Pkwy Farm Yellowhor Tr eil e Cre k il e Cre ek e Creek le Cre Billy Howey reek ek Dr ilec Dr Creek m m Rosehill TwelveM Crestgate Grove Church F Bos Dr Cuthbertso ch le Cre ek reek Tarkill Bra Litt TwelveMile LowergateDr S Proviece lve Mile Creek Twe eek Littl ecr Shao m reek Price Valiat Dr Arew Jackso Family Farm ^_ TwelveMile C Vikig Dr k Uerwoo Cree tlecreek Creek Tw e le Byrum lvemile Lit C r e ek Tw elv e Mi Gray Baya Way Howie Mie Church Machie Brac h UV 16 Appeix II. Carolia Threa Trail Public Ope House Summary, cotiue Wi Laurelwoo L Saalwoo Dr ^_ ig OaksTr Pleasat Grove Twelve Mile Creek F le Creek Twelve Mi le Creek Pleasat Grove Campgrou Iia Trail e Mi elv ^_ lecreek Cureto Shoppig Ceter Twel ve Mi Tw Mieral Sprigs Greeway ^_ Waxhaw Trail L Ski Kesigto Dr Waxhaw Marvi Bate sbrach Grover Rogers G Twelve Mile Cr eek m Mieral Sprigs Music Bar ^_ Pie Oak F Mceely Nesbit Park Collis Mccall Twelve Mile Creek Twelve Mile Creek Tw elve MileCr eek BatesB rach Steeple Chase B Creek Creek lythe N Broome St Blythe Tw e S Potter ^_ UV 75 lve Mile Creek m Wester Uio School Waxhaw Hwy K Howie Mie ^_ Waxhaw Park Helms lve Twe Lacaster Couty Uio Couty Mile C re ek ^_ Museum of the Waxhaws ^_ m Waxhaw Library Twelve M Brac h McNeel y Brach ilecreek J Bates reek Blythe C m Sharo Dr McNeel y Bra ch Waxhaw Farms ebrac h Ra The Uio Couty Carolia Threa Trail coectio opportuities are epicte with ¼ mile wie lies to illustrate coectios betwee estiatios, but ot precise routes. The broaly efie corriors preset multiple opportuities for ajustmets for a efie route, so that laowers a the commuity ca cotiue to be ivolve i fie tuig a efiig the locatio of trails a ameities. UV 1111 Waxhaw Crossig Dr Rehobeth RaeBrach Waxhaw Creek ± Lege Richarso Kig Parkwoo School Joh Craig Bigham UV 1117 Sims Special thaks to the followig ata proviers: Uio Couty, Iia Trail, City of Moroe, Stalligs, a ESRI. Map create by the Trust for Public La o March 24, 2011 k r ee 521 Waxhaw C Create i ArcMap Map Projectio: NAD 1983 UTM Zoe 17N Waxhaw Cre ek Nesbit S Proviece Davis Brac h River Waterboies Iterstate Highway Major Roa Local Roa Other Railroa Propose Carolia Threa Trail Lacaster Coectio Opportuities Existig Trail Propose Trail Parks Coservatio Area ^_ Destiatios m Schools TPL, The Trust for Public La, a The Trust for Public La logo are traemarks of The Trust for Public La. Copyright 2011 The Trust for Public La. Waxhaw Creek Davis Waxhaw Couty Bouaries Iformatio o this map is provie for purposes of iscussio a visualizatio oly. UV Miles 36

37 Creek Church East Fork - Map 8. Wesley Chapel ^_ ^_ Machie Brac h Keigto Dr Waxhaw Hwy S Proviece Cuthbertso G Iformatio o this map is provie for purposes of iscussio a visualizatio oly. L Arew Jackso Family Farm ^_ Roscoe Howey TPL, The Trust for Public La, a The Trust for Public La logo are traemarks of The Trust for Public La. Copyright 2011 The Trust for Public La. UV 75 ittle Cree Uerwoo Creek Create i ArcMap Map Projectio: NAD 1983 UTM Zoe 17N Twelve Mile C reek k S Rocky River F Map create by the Trust for Public La o March 24, 2011 Shao Special thaks to the followig ata proviers: Uio Couty, Wesley Chapel, a ESRI. F Little Cre ek Litt Tow LowergateDr Dr le Cre ek New Crestgate Rosehill Clarece Secrest eek Dr TwelveM Dr ilec Uerwo ocreek Farm Cr Pkwy reek S Potter k Applegate eil e Cre m e Silver Creek Twelve Mil New Tow Twelve M Mully B Appeix II. Carolia Threa Trail Public Ope House Summary, cotiue Sto ehave Dr Billy Howey Willoughby Will Plyler Waxhaw Twelve Mile Creek rach Lester Davis Weigto Dr Sprigwoo Eagle Eis Baro ^_ Aero Platatio Lake S Twelve Mile Creek Iia Trail Castlestoe L CircleTrace TwelveMi l e Cree k Chambwoo Lochave m tbrach UV 84 Pu m Cul ver pericke E as tfo rk- Safor L We g e w oo l L Twelv e Mi m m m Deal erwoo le Cr N Dr eek Twelve Mile Creek Weigto Optimist U illow Ru Dr Bearski Creek reek Twelve W UV 1349 Wesley Chapel HomesteaPl E ile C Fork - Twelve M ecreek M il ile Cr eek Jim Parker Golmie TwelveM East m Schools Wesley Chapel Couty Bouaries Miles Fox Ru UV 1008 Beulah Church Potter - Tw elvemile Creek ^_ Destiatios Cox Atioch Greystoe Dr C obblecreek Twelve Mi le Cr Propose Carolia Threa Trail Existig Trail Propose Trail Parks Coservatio Area eek Airport Dr Proviece A c e Hutigto stry Cir Dr Twelve Mile Cree k t Fork E a s Twelve Mile Cre ek Wiig L Lege ± River Waterboies Iterstate Highway Major Roa Local Roa Other Railroa UV 16 Cyrus Mario ^_ Rogers House Rogers Bromley Dr UV 1357 m that laowers a the commuity ca cotiue to be ivolve i fie tuig a efiig the locatio of trails a ameities. Hemby Weigto Matthews Fo x brige Dr le Creek The Uio Couty Carolia Threa Trail coectio opportuities are epicte with ¼ mile wie lies to illustrate coectios betwee estiatios, but ot precise routes. The broaly efie corriors preset multiple opportuities for ajustmets for a efie route, so Pric e Mill Cr ee - TwelveM i iecreek Ol Charlotte Hwy B Stirru p Ct Twelve Mil e Creek ForestRi k il W low Oaks Tr m Meckleburg Couty Uio Couty ge FaircroftWay Davis M m Horseshoe re e bro ok G East Fork Pkwy F orest Law Dr m Brao Oaks Pkwy B Wesley Chapel, NC Uio Couty - Propose Carolia Threa Trail m UV 1009 Hayes SIX MILE CREEK GREENWAY A maa Dr 37

38 Fuerburk S Stewart St Cir Wooberry Dr Map 9. Wigate Austi Brach Austi Grove Church Appeix II. Carolia Threa Trail Public Ope House Summary, cotiue m S Forest Hills School Special thaks to the followig ata proviers: Uio Couty, City of Moroe, a ESRI. Map create by the Trust for Public La o March 24, 2011 Uio Couty - Propose Carolia Threa Trail Wigate, NC Create i ArcMap Map Projectio: NAD 1983 UTM Zoe 17N TPL, The Trust for Public La, a The Trust for Public La logo are traemarks of The Trust for Public La. Copyright 2011 The Trust for Public La. Iformatio o this map is provie for purposes of iscussio a visualizatio oly. E astwoo Dr Moroe Asoville t S Satur Clark St Taylor St Tucker Wae Rorie Meaow Brach Richars o Creek UV 1751 Trull Hiso icharso Cre ek R llips Dr Phi Wi sog Way Mcityre Austi Brach Meaow Brach Asoville Austi Chaey Rays Fork Meaow Brach Bobwhite Cir Cir Douglas Berryhill Dr Ol Williams D Rays Phifer Cir Phifer APerrySt SmithSt Fork St Burris N Mai St Polaris Dr Maye St Zeb Gooma Faculty Dr N Came St Pearl Cir Bives St HaskisDr Cear St Mea owbrach E Wilso St L Leaf O ak Rays W Elm St ^_ m Wigate Park 74 m ^_ W Wilso St Egewoo Dr College St E Hwy 74 Ole Love St Chaey St Presso Coutry L Booker St Diae St Ag Extesio D For k Meaow Brach Wigate Uiversity For k Rays Gwy St Flag Brac h To Negro Hea Creek Ol Hwy 74 Meaow Brach C Jesse Helms Park Brach Meaow Mil e Fork Lege Pierce Propose Carolia Threa Trail Existig Trail Propose Trail Iepeece Dr Lee Came Witmore Parks Coservatio Area ^_ Destiatios m Schools Sycamore Grove Rays Fork Summerli Dairy Brach Wigate Rays Fork Maple Sprig s The Uio Couty Carolia Threa Trail coectio opportuities are epicte with ¼ mile wie lies to illustrate coectios betwee estiatios, but ot precise routes. The broaly efie corriors preset multiple opportuities for ajustmets for a efie route, so that laowers a the commuity ca cotiue to be ivolve i fie tuig a efiig the locatio of trails a ameities Miles River Waterboies Iterstate Highway Major Roa Local Roa Other Railroa Moroe Coector ± 38

39 chapter 5. recommee actios for implemetatio Photo by Nacy Pierce The trail routes for the Uio Couty CTT are propose, which meas it is up to resiets, orgaizatios, a local a couty govermets to help realize the visio they were so istrumetal i creatig. The actio pla is log i scope a visio the creatio of trails will take a sustaie a cocerte effort over the ext 20 years. Yet it also requires a sese of immeiacy i orer to buil o the mometum create by the CTT plaig process i the couty. Utilizig a variety of orgaizatioal a fuig opportuities, CTT stakeholers ca use these actio steps, i cojuctio with the Master Pla, as a gree prit to guie the CTT alog to fruitio. 39

40 Chapter 5. Recommee Actios for Implemetatio Uio Couty CTT Master Pla Actio Steps Step Actios Timeframe Aopt the CTT Master Pla. Ecourage the icorporatio of this pla by the couty a local govermets as a itegral part of local comprehesive plaig a la use plaig efforts. a. Create greeway-specific recommeatios i all future plaig efforts whe applicable. b. Specifically referece this pla i all future plaig efforts that impact greeway evelopmet. c. Couty or local jurisictios shall iform the Carolia Threa Trail a voluteer trail easemet program (see 4c. below) of. ay evelopmet projects that coul have impact o the creatio of trails or greeways. Buil public support. a. Establish a Fries of the Carolia Threa Trail orgaizatio. b. Develop a trail ietity for Uio Couty (image or cocept). Develop a miimum of 1.5 miles of greeways each year for the ext 10 years a a miimum of 3 miles of greeways each year thereafter. a. Develop corrior specific plas for the top three priority corriors: the Stalligs to Iia Trail route, the Iia Trail to. Wesley Chapel route, a the route from Meckleburg Couty to Moroe. b. Leverage voluteers, private a public parterships, a grat moey to help buil a ope these trails. c. Create a voluteer trail easemet program to capture future trail easemets from willig laowers prior to evelopmet. Strategically pursue trail projects to maximize results a miimize costs. a. Work with local agecies a private laowers to secure trail easemets a access to gree space for trail coectios. b. Pursue fuig for trail projects. i. Parter with oprofits, CTT, a cooperative govermet agecies o fuig applicatios. ii. Apply for corrior esig grats from the CTT that provie fus to couct etaile corrior esig stuies o the priority segmets highlighte i this pla. iii. Apply for Parks a Recreatio Trust Fu (PARTF) matchig fus from the state to help acquire, evelop, a buil priority greeway segmets highlighte i this pla. iv. Apply for a Natioal Recreatioal Trails Program grat through the state of North Carolia to fu ew greeway costructio alog the priority corriors. v. Cooriate with North Carolia Departmet of Trasportatio (NCDOT) a the Rural Plaig Orgaizatio for. opportuities to fu a evelop the CTT routes. vi. I cooriatio with CTT a TPL, ietify specific greeway projects that coul be eligible for NC Clea Water Maagemet Trust Fu a La a Water Coservatio Fu grats a apply accorigly. c. Aopt icetives for private laowers a evelopmets that set asie la for greeway uses.. Cooriate with other trail evelopmet efforts i the regio. e. Where grat requiremets or costructio i cojuctio with aother project makes costructio of a lower-priority trail project possible, pursue fuig sources for that trail project regarless of priority. f. Publish a public report ocumetig the status a ogoig actios of all trail projects at the e of each year. Esure that the project list for the CTT Master Pla for Uio Couty is curret a relevat. a. Review a upate the CTT Master Pla as eee, withi 10 years, with iput from the CTT Steerig Committee, local. avocacy groups, a la use agecies. b. Share the upate CTT Master Pla project list with the public a the muicipalities. 1 year 1 3. years 1 2. years 20. years 1 year. ogoig Withi. 10 years 40

41 chapter 6. costs a fuig optios The success of the CTT i Uio Couty is likely preicate o miimizig the cost of trails a tappig ito the wealth of fuig opportuities available for trail projects. This chapter provies a overview of potetial costs a fuig optios. costs La Acquisitio Total costs of capital improvemet projects iclue the cost of la acquisitio. Aveues of acquisitio available to muicipal govermets iclue oatios, purchase, a eveloper cotributios. Flexibility a creativity will be require to miimize acquisitio costs, so ay oe of these methos may be combie whe feasible. Trail Costructio A variety of factors impact the cost of trail costructio: surface materials, labor, sigage, a acillary items from beches to garbage cas. I tur, the amout of materials a labor will epe o itee trail use, the amout of use the trail might receive, a fus available. The three most commo trail costructio materials are graite screeig, asphalt, a cocrete. The prices of the each material are subject to fluctuatio epeig o trasportatio, eergy costs, a other factors relate to regioal a global supply a ema. Operatio a Maiteace (O&M) O&M costs vary epeig o commuity expectatios but ultimately etail staffig, maagemet, a security costs. With careful plaig, the CTT ca be maitaie i a variety of ways to help reuce the overall costs. Savvy trail plaig a esig ca reuce logterm O&M ivestmets. Cost savig shoul be a part of ay esig pla while still i a prelimiary stage. Best practices iclue: Reviewig prelimiary site plas by staff resposible for trail maiteace so they ca offer suggestios a guiace a have their voices hear from the begiig; Writig a operatio a maiteace pla whe iitial esig plas are presete, allowig staff to aalyze staffig levels, etermie the most appropriate maiteace staars, evelop potetial operatig bugets, a look for ways to ivolve parters i trail maiteace; a Deciig, urig the esig phase, the level of maiteace the maagig agecy ca affor, thus allowig the esigers the opportuity to make ajustmets i material selectio, acillary facilities, a size of parkig lots, as applicable. As i the case of la acquisitio, there are several possible O&M arragemets. For example, a sigle govermet agecy coul provie all O&M for the trail regarless of where it rus i the couty. O the other ha, each govermet uit with a trail i its corporate limits coul be resposible for its ow O&M withi those limits. Aother approach coul be to cotract, through a biig process, trail maagemet to a private la maagemet firm. While each optio woul icur maagemet costs, savigs coul be realize through makig extesive use of voluteers, establishig a aopt a trail program, a special projects uertake by scouts or other civicmie groups. 41

42 Chapter 6. Costs a Fuig Optios A Cost Illustratio Base o a corrior stuy of the Lower Catawba River i York Couty, South Carolia, the followig estimates. provie a ballpark figure, icluig labor, for costs ivolve with trail costructio. Table 6. Trail Costructio Cost Estimates Nature trail Pave trail 8-foot siewalk, curb, a gutter 5-foot bike laes (2 sies) Stream crossigs Peestria brige Base o these estimates, the followig illustratio provies a very rough example of the potetial cost of a trail segmet. A 1-mile trail that traverses a stream a requires a peestria brige coul cost betwee $36,120 a $42,820 to costruct, icluig labor but excluig sigs a other acillary items (e.g., garbage cas). Total $4/ft $130/liear foot (LF) $15.39/LF $21/LF $150 $235/ft $1,200 $1,700 LF Table 7. Trail Costructio Cost Illustratio Cost per uit Example Feature of legth legth Total Costs Nature trail $4/ft 1 mile. $21,120 (5,280 ft) Stream crossigs $150 $235/ft 20 ft $3,000 $4,700 Peestria brige $1,200 $1,700 LF 10 LF $12,000 $17,000 $36,120 $42,820 fuig A variety of potetial fuig sources are available to help pay for the Carolia Threa Trail i Uio Couty, icluig private, local, state, regioal, a feeral fuig programs. Private La trusts are valuable avisors a facilitators whe pursuig coservatio fuig opportuities for trail projects. La trusts are oprofit orgaizatios that assist laowers seekig to coserve their la, ofte through the use of coservatio easemets or la oatios. I Uio Couty, the Catawba Las Coservacy, which serves as the lea aget for the Carolia Threa Trail, assists laowers with la coservatio a ca provie excellet avice regarig potetial fuig aveues. The Trust for Public La, a atioal coservatio orgaizatio, ca also assist private laowers who wish to sell or oate their la for public parks, gares, greeways, or watershe protectio. Private iiviuals may oate la or liqui ivestmets, such as cash or stock, to a muicipality or la trust. Doatios to muicipalities geerally support the implemetatio of a capital improvemet program iscusse i more etail below. Private laowers may also choose to oate their la to a la trust, whereby the trust is resposible for protectig the la a oors permaetly preserve their property a ca receive substatial tax beefits. Corporatios a busiesses are excellet parters for trail projects. Busiesses that rely o atural resources or tourism have a stake i ehacig the recreatio a coservatio opportuities i Uio Couty. Corporate oatios, like iiviual oatios, may be la or liqui ivestmets, while corporate sposorships ofte take the form of services, persoel voluteers, liqui ivestmets, or la. Public-private parterships ca rive a trail project forwar: muicipalities a corporatios ca work together for fuig. A sposorship ofte ivolves marketig or 42

43 Chapter 6. Costs a Fuig Optios recogizig the cotributio of the corporatio, creatig positive publicity for the corporatio a the project itself. Private fouatio grats epe o fuig capacity a istributio requiremets. While there are may fouatios workig i North Carolia, it will be ecessary to ietify fouatio missios that alig with CTT goals. Two potetial examples iclue the Uio Couty Commuity Fouatio, which has a aual gratmakig program that aresses local ees a improve the. lives of Uio Couty citizes, a the Duke Eergy Fouatio, which offers grats that support coservatio, traiig, a research arou evirometal a eergy efficiecy iitiatives. Orgaizatios a iiviuals ca also participate i a furaiser or a campaig rive. Furaisers require marketig to rally support a fiacial backig. Furaisig has the potetial to icrease public awareess, public eucatio, a fiacial support ees. Photo by Nacy Pierce 43 Local The optios for local public fuig are presete i this sectio for iscussio purposes oly, a each commuity aoptig this pla will make its ow etermiatio o how a whe it chooses to fu trail evelopmet with public ollars. Geerally, there are three primary types of reveue sources available to local govermets i North Carolia to pay for trails: iscretioary aual speig, creatio of eicate fuig streams, a ebt fiacig. The fiacig optios utilize by a commuity will epe o a variety of factors, such as taxig capacity, bugetary resources, voter prefereces, a political will. The local public fuig optios available to Uio Couty are liste i Table 8 a escribe below.

44 Chapter 6. Costs a Fuig Optios Table 8. Commo Local Coservatio Fiacig Sources i North Carolia. Metho Defiitio Pros Cos Geeral obligatio. bo Loa take out by a city agaist the value of the taxable property Allows for immeiate purchase of ope. space, lockig i la at curret prices Distributes the cost of acquisitio Extra iterest costs of borrowig Fus may be use oly for capital projects a improvemets Voter approval require Property tax Tax o real property pai for by commercial a resietial. property owers Steay source of reveue Relatively easily amiistere Tax bure fairly broaly istribute Small icreases create substatial fuig Competitio for other public purposes Overall cocer amog taxpayers. about high rates Caot be permaetly eicate Impact fee Oe-time fee pai by eveloper to off-set costs of ifrastructure cause by ew evelopmet Nexus betwee taxig ew evelopmet. a protectig remaiig ope space Projects must be irectly like to. ew evelopmet Real estate. trasfer tax Tax that may be impose o the privilege of trasferrig real property withi the jurisictio Is a familiar tool for la coservatio Small icreases ca create substatial. fuig Upreictable source of reveue May have oppositio from Realtor commuity Reveues may ot be restricte Local sales tax Tax levie o the retail price of. a item Distributes the cost of acquisitios Small icreases create substatial fuig Upreictable source of reveue. Relies o the stregth of the local ecoomy Reveues may ot be restricte Bo issues are oe optio for public fiacig of local capital improvemets. A bo issue provies upfrot fus that allow for the immeiate purchase of la or coservatio easemet a istributes the cost of acquisitio over time so that future beeficiaries also share i the cost to acquire la. A geeral obligatio (GO) bo coul provie reveue for the couty, though it woul mea aig to Uio Couty s existig ebt. 61 Alteratively, a local govermet coul choose to cotribute to a capital improvemet project usig existig property tax reveue or request a capital buget icrease. The property tax is the largest reveue source for may local jurisictios i North Carolia. There is o eablig authority by which a portio of the tax may be eicate for trails, so expeitures epe o the aual appropriatios process. 62 At the muicipal or couty level, aother optio for raisig capital improvemet ollars for trails is creatig a park/recreatio impact fee program. Although ucommo i North Carolia, impact fees are sometimes use by local govermets i other states to help efray costs of ew roas, water a sewer treatmet, schools, parks, a other ifrastructure ecessitate by ew evelopmet. Uer this type of program, a fee is charge agaist ew evelopmet to geerate reveue to pay for the particular type of capital improvemet. For example, Chatham Couty, North Carolia, has both a Recreatio Impact Fee a a Eucatio Facilities Impact Fee. 63 Note that this optio woul require special legislatio from the Geeral Assembly of North Carolia. 44

45 Chapter 6. Costs a Fuig Optios The couty coul also levy a la trasfer tax (up to 0.4 percet) or a local sales tax (0.25 percet) to be for operatios a maiteace as well as capital projects. 64 A couty may ot eact both. Small icreases with respect to either optio ca create substatial fuig, however, both optios ca also be upreictable sources of reveue. Photo by Ray Williams State Most statewie coservatio fuig comes through four major trust fu programs. Two of the fus the Clea Water Maagemet Trust Fu a the Agricultural Developmet a Farmla Preservatio Trust Fu are typically fiace from geeral state appropriatios. The other two the Natural Heritage Trust Fu a the Parks a Recreatio Trust Fu are fiace by the real estate trasfer tax a persoalize licese plate sales. The tax levie is $2 per $1,000 of the value of the property. Of every two ollars geerate from the real estate trasfer tax, oe ollar goes to coservatio, the other to local govermets. The ollar for coservatio is split betwee the Parks a Recreatio Trust Fu a the Natural Heritage Trust Fu. The Natural Heritage Trust Fu (NHTF) (est. 1987) provies fuig to select state agecies for the acquisitio of importat atural areas to coserve the state s ecological iversity a cultural heritage, a to ivetory the state s atural heritage resources. 65 A 12-member appoite Boar of Trustees a the Natural Heritage Program awar grats. Of every ollar for coservatio receive from the real estate trasfer tax, 25 cets goes to the Natural Heritage Trust Fu. Oly state agecies may apply for these grats. The Parks a Recreatio Trust Fu (PARTF) (est. 1994) provies ollars ot oly for la acquisitio a capital improvemets i the state s park system (65 percet of fu), but also for local govermet park a recreatio purposes (30 percet of fu) a for icreasig the public s access to beaches (5 percet of fu)... Local govermet grats require a ollar-for-ollar match. To apply for a PARTF grat, local govermets must complete a applicatio etailig such aspects of the project as (1) basic facts a assuraces, (2) justificatio for the project, (3) proof of site cotrol, (4) project costs, (5) sources of local matchig fus, (6) site pla a locatio map, (7) legal escriptio of la a statemets of value, a (8) evirometal review. Local govermets ca request up to $500,000 i assistace for each applicatio. 66 The North Carolia Geeral Assembly establishe the Clea Water Maagemet Trust Fu (CWMTF) i 1996 to help fiace projects that specifically aress water pollutio problems, icluig the protectio a coservatio of watershes through la acquisitio. 67. The Clea Water Maagemet Trust Fu provies grats to a riparia buffers a greeways for evirometal, eucatioal, a recreatioal beefits, amog other thigs. I support of a millio-acre coservatio goal establishe i 2000, the Geeral Assembly agree to icrease fuig 45

46 Chapter 6. Costs a Fuig Optios for CWMTF to $100 millio per year (up from approximately $30 millio), begiig i CWMTF is amiistere by a 21-member, iepeet Boar of Trustees a is house for amiistrative purposes i the Departmet of Eviromet a Natural Resources (DENR). Eligible grat applicats iclue (a) a state agecy, (b) a local govermet or other political subivisio of the state or a combiatio of such etities, or (c) a oprofit corporatio whose primary purpose is the coservatio, preservatio, a restoratio of North Carolia s evirometal a atural resources. No match is require; however, a match is recommee a trustees may choose to fu projects at less tha 100 percet of the applicatio request. CWMTF fus about oe-thir of the grat requests that it receives. 68 To apply for a CWMTF grat, local govermets must complete a applicatio form that will be evaluate base o how well the projects meet the program objectives. 69 The Farmla Preservatio Trust Fu 70 was origially establishe i 1986, a i 2005, the legislature reame the program the Agricultural Developmet a Farmla Preservatio Trust Fu (ADFPTF). At that time the escriptio was broaee to iclue three grat areas: coservatio easemets, agricultural agreemets, a programs that evelop sustaiable or viable agriculture. While this program oes ot specifically aress trail acquisitio a evelopmet, it coul possibly be helpful whe likig areas of ope space to a propose greeway. The commissioer of agriculture amiisters the trust fu, a a 19-member avisory committee was establishe to help irect fus a the applicatio process. Reveue is erive from aual allocatios from the Geeral Fu. 71 Couties are eligible to apply for fuig, a match requiremets epe o various factors. 72 Noprofit coservatio orgaizatio applicats must match 30 percet of trust fu moies receive from sources other tha ADFPTF. To apply for a grat from ADFPTF, local govermets must submit the followig: (1) a applicatio, (2) a buget arrative, (3) a cotact list for fuig sources, a (4) a fiacial affiavit. 73 Uio Couty a its cities a tows have ha fairly goo success i garerig state fus from North Carolia coservatio trust fus. I particular, the State Parks a Recreatio Trust Fu has aware 12 grats i the couty over the past ecae totalig $4.5 millio (see Table 9). Such parterships are a importat compoet i leveragig fus for parks a coservatio. Photo by Nacy Pierce 46

47 Chapter 6. Costs a Fuig Optios Table 9. North Carolia Coservatio Trust Fu Grats Aware i Uio Couty ( ) Year Project Amout Fu 1997 Uio: Cae Creek Park Cabis $75,000 Parks a Recreatio Trust Fu 2000 Lake Park: Lake Park Commuity Recreatio Project Wigate: Wigate Tow Park $79,995 $250,000 Parks a Recreatio Trust Fu Parks a Recreatio Trust Fu 2002 Weigto: Huter Farm $24,000 Agricultural Developmet a Farmla. Preservatio Trust Fu 2003 Stalligs: Stalligs Muicipal Park Moroe: Parks Williams Athletic Complex Uio: Cae Creek Park $30,000 $249,202 $250,000 Parks a Recreatio Trust Fu Parks a Recreatio Trust Fu Parks a Recreatio Trust Fu 2004 Wigate: Wigate Commuity Builig Moroe Parks Williams Athletic Complex Phase II Uio: Jesse Helms Park La Acquisitio a Developmet Uio: Cae Creek Park Acquisitio Developmet, Acquisitio, Reovatio $142,658 $250,000 $250,000 $250,000 Parks a Recreatio Trust Fu Parks a Recreatio Trust Fu Parks a Recreatio Trust Fu Parks a Recreatio Trust Fu 2005 Stalligs: Stalligs Muicipal Park $34,300 Parks a Recreatio Trust Fu 2006 Wigate: WW/Sewer Repair, Ray s Brach $100,000 Clea Water Maagemet Trust Fu 2007 Mieral Sprigs: Acq/Greeway Project, Wolf a Bates Braches Wigate: WW/Sewer Rehabilitatio, Ray s Brach $307,000 $1,731,000 Clea Water Maagemet Trust Fu Clea Water Maagemet Trust Fu 2008 Uio Couty $500,000 Parks a Recreatio Trust Fu TOTAL $4,523,155 Feeral Appeix D lists various fuig programs amiistere by feeral agecies. The programs vary i how fus are elivere a istribute. For example, some program fus are irecte to the states, which ecie what projects to fu, while other fus are grate by a feeral agecy through a competitive process. 47

48 foototes [1] U.S. Departmet of Health a Huma Services, Physical Activity a Health: A Report of the Surgeo Geeral (Atlata: U.S. Departmet of Health a Huma Services, Ceters for Disease Cotrol a Prevetio, Natioal Ceter for Chroic Disease Prevetio a Health Promotio, 1996), p. 3, [2] The Trust for Public La, The Ecoomic Beefits of the Park a Recreatio System of Meckleburg Couty, North Carolia (Washigto, DC: The Trust for Public La, Ceter for City Park Excellece, 2010), pp. 3 4, org/cotet_ocumets/ccpe_meckleburg_couty-report1.pf. [3] Uio Couty, 2025 Comprehesive Pla: Plaig Boar Review Draft (July 2009), p. 48 (hereiafter Uio Couty CP). [4] Because Presiet Jackso was bor before the etermiatio of the Carolia borers, there is some isagreemet about whether he is a ative so of Uio Couty or Lacaster Couty, South Carolia. [5] Belk, History, History.jsp. [6] U.S. Cesus Bureau, Cesus 2000 Reistrictig Data (Public Law ) Summary File, Table PL1, a 2010 Cesus Reistrictig Data (Public Law ) Summary File, Table P1. [7] U.S. Cesus Bureau, Cesus 2000 Reistrictig Data (Public Law ) Summary File, Table PL1, a 2010 Cesus Reistrictig Data (Public Law ) Summary File, Table P1. [8] Ibi.; U.S. Cesus Bureau, State a Couty QuickFacts, quickfacts.cesus.gov/qf/states/37/37179.html. [9] Uio Couty CP, p. 50. [10] North Carolia Office of State Buget a Maagemet, Couty Desities: [11] U.S. Cesus Bureau, Populatio Divisio, Aual Estimates of Housig Uits for Couties i North Carolia: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2009 (Jue 2010). [12] U.S. Cesus Bureau, Populatio Divisio, Housig Uit Estimates for the 100 Fastest Growig Couties With 5,000 or More Housig Uits i 2009: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2009 (Jue 2010). [13] U.S. Cesus Bureau:, State a Couty QuickFacts. [14] Uio Couty CP, p. 51. [15] Ibi., p. 53. [16] Ibi. [17] CNN Moey, gallery.bplive_jobgrowth.moeymag/10.html (accesse Jue 7, 2009). [18] North Carolia Divisio of Agriculture a Cosumer Services, Agricultural Statistics Divisio, Summary of Commoities by Couty, (accesse Jue 3, 2010). [19] The percet ecrease was calculate usig statistics from the North Carolia Employmet a Securities Commissio a the Charlotte Regioal Partership. [20] Charlotte Regioal Partership, Uio Couty, Busiess Locatio Profile, Busiess_Locatio_Profile.pf (accesse Jue 3, 2010). [21] Ibi. [22] The Charlotte Regioal Partership is a ecoomic evelopmet regio that cosists of Alexaer Couty, Aso Couty, Cabarrus Couty, Catawba Couty, Clevela Couty, Gasto Couty, Ireell Couty, Licol Couty, Meckleburg Couty, Rowa Couty, Staly Couty, a Uio Couty. [23] See U.S. Cesus Bureau, MCD/Couty-To-MCD/Couty Worker Flow Files, files/2kresmc_nc.xls. [24] Oe of the most visible sie effects of the tremeous growth i Uio Couty is a icrease i traffic a its resultig cogestio, elays, a safety cocers. Uio Couty CP, p. 72. [25] Ibi., p. 8. [26]Ibi., p. 9. [27] Uio Couty Partership for Progress, Aual Report, p. 2. [28] Uio Couty Chamber of Commerce, Busiess News 2009, uiocoutycoc.com/b-2009.html. 48

49 Foototes, cotiue [29] Natural Resources Coservatio Service, Soil Survey of Uio Couty, North Carolia (Washigto, DC: U.S. Departmet of Agriculture, Jauary 1996), p. 2. [30] Uio Couty CP, p. 47. [31] CNN Moey, gallery.bplive_jobgrowth.moeymag/10.html. [32] Uio Couty CP, p. 52. [33] North Carolia Divisio of Agriculture a Cosumer Services, Agricultural Statistics Divisio, Summary of Commoities by Couty, [34] Uio Couty CP, p. 52. [35] North Carolia Natural Heritage Program, Heritage Data, chp.org/pages/heritageata.html. [36] South Carolia Departmet of Resources, South Carolia Rare, Threatee a Eagere Species Ivetory (last upate Jauary 2006). [37] Uio Couty CP, p. 82. [38] Ibi. [39] North Carolia Departmet of Eviromet a Natural Resources, Divisio of Water Quality, Waterboy Report Uio Couty, cer.org/web/wq/ps/csu/classificatios. [40] Uio Couty CP, p. 87. [41] Village of Iia Trail, Comprehesive Pla (2005), pp [42] Village of Lake Park, NC Referece Desk, Home/VillageRefereceDesk/tabi/78/Default.aspx. [43] Tow of Marshville website, [44] Tow of Mieral Sprigs, Sprigs_Greeway_Seak_Peek.htm. Aitioal iformatio obtaie from correspoece with Vicky Brooks, tow clerk, October 12, [45] City of Moroe, Dowtow Master Pla (2008), p. 24. [46] Tow of Stalligs, Park Master Plas, org/iex.asp?type=b_basic&sec={d070fc7f-d6ac-46d0-af2e- B322F0173BFF}. [47] Village of Wesley Chapel, Village of Wesley Chapel Comprehesive Parks & Recreatio Pla (Fall 2009), p. 24. [48] Tow of Wigate, Parks a Recreatio, [49] For more iformatio o the backgrou a methoology of the survey, see Appeix B. [50] Uio Couty CP, p. 87. [51] Tow of Iia Trail, Iia Trail Comprehesive Peestria Pla (2009), pp [52] Tow of Marshville, La Use Pla (2004), p. 6. [53] Village of Marvi, Park a Greeway Master Pla (2008), pp [54] City of Moroe, Greeway Master Pla (2005), itrouctio. [55] Tow of Mieral Sprigs, Visio Pla (2006), La Use Pla. [56] Tow of Stalligs, Peestria Pla (2008), pp. 9, [57] Tow of Waxhaw, Comprehesive Pla 2030 (workig raft, 2008), p. 29. As ote i Wester Uio Couty Local Area Regioal Trasportatio Pla (November 2009), private greeways are ot regulate or require by the tow. [58] Village of Wesley Chapel, Village of Wesley Chapel Comprehesive Parks & Recreatio Pla (Fall 2009), pp. 4, [59] Wigate 2020: Comprehesive a Dowtow Pla, squarespace.com/aboutwigate/. [60] Low-icome househols are efie as househols with combie icome of less tha $35,000 per year. [61] Uio Couty has capacity uer existig ebt limits to issue geeral obligatio bos for parks a trail purposes. As of FY 2010, Uio Couty ha roughly $553 millio i ebt applicable to the ebt limit, $450.2 millio of which is geeral obligatio ebt. This leaves about $1.2 billio i remaiig 49

50 Foototes, cotiue boig capacity uer legal state ebt limits. The couty s geeral obligatio bo ratig is strog at Aa1/AA/AA+ by Mooy s Ivestors Services, Staar & Poors, a Fitch. Uio Couty FY2010 Comprehesive Aual Fiacial Report. As a illustratio, a $10 millio bo woul a roughly $802,000 to the couty s aual ebt service a woul cost the average homeower approximately $6 per year i aitioal property taxes over the life of the bo; this woul a mills to the couty s existig property tax rate. Assumes 20-year bo at 5.0% iterest rate; 2010 Total Assesse Valuatio (AV) = $22.9 billio; Meia home value $179,351 ( state.c.us/ocs/coutyprofile/nc/37179.pf). Assumptios for bo cost calculatio iclue the followig: (1) the etire ebt amout is issue i the first year a paymets are equal util maturity, (2) 20-year maturity a 5 percet iterest rate, (3) the property tax estimates assume that the jurisictio woul raise property taxes to pay the ebt service o bos; however, other reveue streams may be use, (4) the cost per househol represets the average aual impact of icrease property taxes levie to pay the ebt service, (5) the estimates o ot take ito accout growth i the tax base ue to ew costructio a aexatio over the life of the bos, a ( 6) the jurisictio s officials, fiacial avisors, bo cousel, a uerwriters woul establish the actual terms of ay bo. [68] The CWMTF is facig potetial buget cuts i the 2011 legislatio sessio. [69] More iformatio o applicatio requiremets is available o the state website, [71] N.C. Ge. Stat to 749. [72] The ADFPTF is facig potetial buget cuts i the 2011 legislatio sessio. [72] Match requiremets are as follows: (1) Tier Oe Eterprise Couties: (a) with a Couty Farmla Protectio Pla must submit a 0 percet match, or (b) without a Couty Farmla Protectio Pla must have a 30 percet match. (2) Tier Two or Three Eterprise Couties: (a) with a Couty Farmla Protectio Pla must submit a 15 percet match OR (b) without a Couty Farmla Protectio Pla must submit a 30 percet match. [73] More iformatio o applicatio requiremets is available o the state website, [62] As a illustratio, a oe-cet icrease i the property tax levy coul geerate roughly $2.3 millio a year at a cost to the average homeower of approximately $18. Total taxable property = $22.9 billio a meia home value = $179, NC/37179.pf. [63] For more iformatio visit the Couty of Chatham s website, [64] The North Carolia Associatio of Couty Commissioers estimate that, base o values for 2007, Uio Couty coul geerate approximately $3.6 millio from a $0.25 local sales tax icrease. At this tax rate, the average househol woul pay about $42 per year. The amout for the estimate aual reveue is erive from calculatios complete by the North Carolia Associatio of Couty Commissioers, reveueauthority_ pf. [65] N.C. Ge. Stat. 5A to [66] More iformatio o applicatio requiremets is available o the state website, [67] N.C. Ge. Stat A. 50

51 appeices 51

52 Appeix A: Steerig Committee Meetig Summaries Carolia Threa Trail Uio Couty Steerig Committee Miutes May 6, :00 PM Members Preset Eri Kilpatrick Doug Britt Bill Whitley Ray Williams Lisa Stiwiter Travis Morehea, Carolia Threa Trail Katie Ross Katie Reeves Kelley Hart, The Trust for Public La Joshua Lage Bria Oli Saxby Chapli, The Trust for Public La Jora Cook Marie Holla Topics of Discussio Welcome Travis Morehea welcome the group. He aouce that Uio Couty a participatig muicipalities have receive the plaig grat from Carolia Threa Trail for $60,000 (that has a local match requiremet of $6,000). He aske that steerig committee members thik regio wie as we uertake this process, as ot every tow will have a CTT trail segmet the CTT is itee to be the iterstate a ca lik up the highway system of local trails. Katie Reeves, Steerig Committee Chair, mae welcomig remarks, thakig the City of Moroe for hostig the meetig. Project overview Kelley Hart reviewe the overarchig goals a objectives of Greeway Master Pla Process: a. Develop actio pla for Carolia Threa Trail i Uio Couty a with participatig muicipalities b. Develop cocept pla for broaer trail system throughout couty c. Prouce CTT Master Pla a marketig brochure by March 2011 She aske steerig committee members, as part of a rou robi of itrouctios, to explai what they woul like the pla to accomplish a what overarchig issues the pla shoul aress. Here are the resposes [oe have bee elete, but they have bee re orere]

53 1. What woul you like the pla to accomplish? [Items i bol were metioe by more tha oe perso.] Builig a trail system keep that goal i mi at all times Coect atural resources throughout couty Potetial to brige gaps betwee east a west of couty Create a regioal ietity Trails/greeways ee to be accessible for all types of users Marketig pla ees to be able to covice laowers that this is a goo iea Nee to appeal to wie/iverse auiece towspeople a couty resiets Wi people over to the iea of trails/greeways we ee some strategies for oig this! Iclue a cost beefit aalysis makig the case for why 2. What overarchig issues/opportuities woul you like the pla aress or cosier: (Coutywie a/or commuity level?) Cocers that some resiets have that will ee to be aresse: People will wat us to justify expeitures for trails/greeways There are some cocers about crime a privacy (e.g. NIMBYs) Couty resiets some cocers about takigs Ieas for aressig cocers: Discuss how safety has worke i other commuities ee etails about how it is mae a kept safe. Nee examples of how la use regulatios iterplay with greeway opportuities. Regulatios that ca support safety. Covicig citizes that we re goig to take their iput ito cosieratio a try to make it work for everyoe Costituets/auieces that ee to be kept i mi: Horses are a vital elemet. Uio C. has more horses tha ay other i the state ee to use this for promotig the trail a cosier whe thikig about how to buil the trail. Accommoate equestria uses o trails How to mesh urba a rural eviromet, commuicatig betwee two There are some issues arou log time resiets v. ewer resiets Differet tows will have ifferet iterests, e.g. rage of access issues Other: Nee to thik regio wie as we pla! Put ow iiviual tow/city hats Project timelie a timig of surveys 2

54 Kelley reviewe the timelie haout (see attache), a metioe that it s possible this scheule will be altere after we get starte, but that we will try to follow it as much as we ca. The group ecie to have the telephoe survey urig the first rou of public iput. Ray a Josh voluteere to assist by reviewig a commetig o the raft survey questios. There was some iscussio about how to aequately represet the varie viewpoits across the couty, give the fact that the majority of the populatio lives i the wester part of the couty but there are sigificat laholigs i the easter portio of the couty, a we are itereste i hearig the views of both. There was a request that we cosier samplig a bit more i the easter portio of the couty tha the cesus ata umbers woul suggest, makig sure that those views are capture. There was also a request that the survey iclue backgrou questios so we ca uersta the auiece that has participate, icluig questios that get at what tow they are from. Other ieas: subtly ask about affiliatios, legth of resiece, size of property owe (fi a ice way to ask this), if possible. Next the group iscusse whe to have a o lie survey, as there is oe built ito the plaig process buget. They ecie to wait util some grouwork has bee oe (the first rou of public listeig sessios a telephoe survey), to etermie if a o lie survey is eee to gather more iput o those topics or if it woul best be use urig the seco rou of public iput. There were a umber of other ieas relate to the olie survey: If people aswer o, explore why they o t wat somethig. Have the telephoe survey a o lie survey set up to have ifferet questios or format. Oly oe survey per computer. How to get wor out about o lie survey: se lik to sushie lists. Committee membership Kelley reviewe the role of the Techical Avisory Team, metioig that the TAT comes up with alterate routes though the Couty base o the public iput receive a members kowlege about o the grou opportuities/impeimets. The TAT meets about 4 times i total over 4 5 moths via webiar. Katie Reeves hae out a spreasheet that iclue a list of TAT members (a iicate Commuity Outreach Team members) Ray Williams a Doug Britt ote that they woul like to be ae to the Techical Avisory Team. We also reviewe the role of the Commuity Outreach Team. These folks will reach out to the local citizes a are resposible for eergizig the citizes for greeway plaig. We have plae a total of eight public meetigs throughout the couty 4 will be hel at the begiig of the process to gather public iput a 4 later to review the raft pla. The Commuity Outreach Team is resposible for spreaig the ews of these meetigs. Marie a Lisa both voluteere for the Commuity Outreach Team, joiig Shelley DeHart (COT Chair), Severi Jacobse, Nacy Jacobse, a Cheri Clark. This committee will meet soo to begi outreach for the upcomig public listeig sessios. Listeig sessio plaig 3

55 Kelley explaie the format that we like to use for the four listeig sessios: start with the CTT 12 miute vieo, have a brief itrouctio o greeways, have a group iscussio that iclues some key pa votig, a the a opportuity to raw o maps. Kelley emostrate how we ca have keypa votig arou potetial importat places by proviig a list of categories of places (e.g. schools, tows, parks, etc.) a askig participats to vote o which is most importat to coect. Steerig committee members use keypas to aswer a couple of other questios we might ask with keypa votig: have you ever bee o a greeway? Rak i orer which activity you woul o o a greeway. The we braistorme a umber of ieas for locatios/evets that might be goo places for seekig public iput. Because of the ature of these public listeig sessios (eeig at least 15 miutes, but really watig to capture folks attetio for a hour), a umber of the ieas were rule out, such as hostig oe at a existig 4 th of July festival, Cae Creek Park, or Waxhaw s First Friay evet. We ecie to have the four public listeig sessios betwee July 19 a 22 a the followig people voluteere to make iquiries about availability of these spaces o these ates a cooriate with Kelley by May 20 so that we ca secure a aouce the scheule. Katie Reeves: Ag Extesio or Wigate betwee Moroe a Wigate o 74. Cosier pairig with a existig evet there. Katie Ross: Museum of the Waxhaws (with elemetary school for potetial overflow) Katie Reeves: Stalligs or Iia Trail or Hemby Brige Jora Cook: Weigto or Marvi (woul be a school) Listeig sessio outreach suggestios for the Commuity Outreach Team: 1. Cosier askig the commuities that host local movie ights throughout the summer if they woul show the 12 miute CTT vieo as a preview to their feature films. Note: We ee to a a fial slie that has the ates/times/locatios of the public listeig sessios. 2. Ha out flyers at: 4th of July evets: Waxhaw (7/3) or Iia Trail s evet (7/3) farmer s markets movie ights, such as those i Stalligs, Waxhaw a Moroe Suggest about flyers smaller, pocket size papers. 3. Cosier utility bill isert 4. ivitatio that ca be passe alog to electe officials 5. E vite that ca be forware; facebook ivitatio.

56 Kelley explaie the format that we like to use for the four listeig sessios: start with the CTT 12 miute vieo, have a brief itrouctio o greeways, have a group iscussio that iclues some key pa votig, a the a opportuity to raw o maps. Kelley emostrate how we ca have keypa votig arou potetial importat places by proviig a list of categories of places (e.g. schools, tows, parks, etc.) a askig participats to vote o which is most importat to coect. Steerig committee members use keypas to aswer a couple of other questios we might ask with keypa votig: have you ever bee o a greeway? Rak i orer which activity you woul o o a greeway. The we braistorme a umber of ieas for locatios/evets that might be goo places for seekig public iput. Because of the ature of these public listeig sessios (eeig at least 15 miutes, but really watig to capture folks attetio for a hour), a umber of the ieas were rule out, such as hostig oe at a existig 4 th of July festival, Cae Creek Park, or Waxhaw s First Friay evet. We ecie to have the four public listeig sessios betwee July 19 a 22 a the followig people voluteere to make iquiries about availability of these spaces o these ates a cooriate with Kelley by May 20 so that we ca secure a aouce the scheule. Katie Reeves: Ag Extesio or Wigate betwee Moroe a Wigate o 74. Cosier pairig with a existig evet there. Katie Ross: Museum of the Waxhaws (with elemetary school for potetial overflow) Katie Reeves: Stalligs or Iia Trail or Hemby Brige Jora Cook: Weigto or Marvi (woul be a school) Listeig sessio outreach suggestios for the Commuity Outreach Team: 1. Cosier askig the commuities that host local movie ights throughout the summer if they woul show the 12 miute CTT vieo as a preview to their feature films. Note: We ee to a a fial slie that has the ates/times/locatios of the public listeig sessios. 2. Ha out flyers at: 4th of July evets: Waxhaw (7/3) or Iia Trail s evet (7/3) farmer s markets movie ights, such as those i Stalligs, Waxhaw a Moroe Suggest about flyers smaller, pocket size papers. 3. Cosier utility bill isert 4. ivitatio that ca be passe alog to electe officials 5. E vite that ca be forware; facebook ivitatio.

57 6. Local access chael/ Raio Statio avertisemet WIXE Curret Coitios Meetig participats recommee we review the followig plas as part of the curret coitios eeavor: Marvi s park a greeways master pla is o their website [ Select coucil/boars; Select PRG; Scroll ow to fi the liks to the pla.] Waxhaw 2030 Comprehesive Pla; LARTP; maistreet ecoomic evelopmet pla Wesley Chapel: LARTP; Village Masterpla; Parks a Rec Master Pla; Dowtow Resolutio. Note: Wesley Chapel is builig their first park they ll se locatio. Weigto: LARTP; La use Pla Moroe: Greeway/Bikeway Master Pla (Lisa will se); owtow master pla Iia Trail: Comprehesive Pla; Dowtow Master Pla; Peestria Pla; Park a Greeway Master Pla; Bicycle Pla (uerway) Uio Couty Parks a Recreatio Master Pla [Stalligs Peestria Pla] Next Steps Two weeks: Katie Reeves, Katie Ross a Jora Cook are firmig up locatios/times/ates for the listeig sessios for the week of July (luchtime or eveig meetigs) Two weeks: Kelley will work o craftig a to all steerig committee members with cosistet messagig about goal of the project a the process that steerig committee members ca use as talkig poits throughout this project. Four weeks: Commuity Outreach Team to meet a begi plaig outreach for listeig sessios. Six weeks: TPL will complete the curret coitios report/chapter. Te weeks: Steerig committee members agree to help get the wor out through their etworks a to atte the listeig sessios. Kelley metioe that we may ee some folks to voluteer to help lea small group iscussio, but she ll circle back as the ates get closer. The ext Steerig Committee meetig will ot be util September, ate TBD.

58 Summary of Carolia Threa Trail Uio Couty Steerig Committee Coferece Call September 14, :00 AM Members Preset Doug Brtt Jora Cook Katie Drye Ray Williams Vicky Brooks Travis Morehea, Carolia Threa Trail Katie Ross Nacy Jacobse Kelley Hart, The Trust for Public La Joshua Lage Nacy Fraza (Stalligs) Joh Crotty, The Trust for Public La Severi Jacobse Marie Holla Bob Heuer, The Trust for Public La Topics of Discussio Welcome Katie Drye welcome the group. She explaie that we have moifie the scheule from our origial workpla because we are still fializig the cotract betwee TPL a participatig muicipalities a the couty for this project. She explaie that all of the electe boies have alreay approve participatio, a they have approve the cotract, but we are still awaitig sigatures from two participats. Util the cotract becomes fialize, we ll cotiue workig towars our ultimate objectives but will hol back o particularly labor itesive tasks (amely, aother rou of public iput). Impressios a iformatio gaie from July listeig sessios a telephoe survey Kelley Hart thake the steerig committee for their outreach arou the listeig sessios i July a for their exceptioal participatio levels i the listeig sessios. She share the list of who came to which meetigs (see chart) a expresse gratitue to the may members who attee listeig sessios, helpe with check i, ote takig, facilitatio, a refreshmets. The she explaie the format for each of the listeig sessios a reporte geerally o the atteace (as high as 34 for oe meetig a as low as 16 for aother). She share the major fiigs, as follows, which we tracke by usig keypa votig urig the meetigs: Questio 1: How i you hear about this meetig? Wor of mouth a ewspaper were the most effective meas of commuicatio. We were able to recruit a haful of people at the Iia Trail Library. Questio 2: Have you ever bee o a greeway trail before? Nearly everyoe ha bee o a greeway trail. 1

59 Questio 3: How importat to you is the goal of creatig more trails? Over 70% of respoets sai the goal of creatig more trails was very importat. Over 85% of respoets sai it was importat (either very or somewhat). Questio 4: How o you wat to use trails ow or i the future? Top 3 oly. Top five uses were: walkig/hikig, ature eucatio, bikig, seeig historic or cultural sites, a bir watchig. Questio 5: What o you wat to coect with trails/greeways? Top 3 oly. Top five coectios were: existig trails, parks, tows, historic builigs/sites, a waterways. Other key fiigs from iscussio were: Most atteees thought the creatio of parks a trails was very importat Atteees ietifie may beefits of greeways a trails, icluig: sese of commuity, health, safety for walkers a bikers, eucatioal opportuities, cultural coectios, busiess opportuities. Uerlyig theme: higher quality of life Some atteees expresse cocer about trails a greeways o Commo issues: log term maiteace, the potetial for trespassig o private property, laower liability, emiet omai, a public safety Popular estiatios that atteees thought shoul be coecte by trails: Wigate Uiversity; Cae Creek Park, Jesse Helms Park, a Coloel Fracis Beatty Park; the Museum of the Waxhaws a JAARS; Steeplechase a Pleasat Grove Campgrou; the tows of Waxhaw, Mieral Sprigs, a Moroe; the Marvi Trail a the Mieral Sprigs Greeway; a Twelve Mile Creek Some participats i express reservatios about the CTT i the orther (Near the Rocky River) a easter parts of the couty. Next Kelley reviewe the slies from the telephoe survey of 403 resiets, raomly selecte, yet basically reflectig of the emographics of Uio Couty. Steerig committee members receive a copy of these results earlier this summer. Poll results relate to estiatios a potetial routes will also be share at the ext Techical Avisory Team (TAT) meetig so that TAT members ca cosier them as they thik about propose estiatios a routes. The steerig committee members offere feeback arou the listeig sessios a the telephoe survey. Ray Williams commete that he was surprise by the lack of participatio i the listeig sessios by those who rie horses. We iscusse the fact that the telephoe survey oes t reveal how may equestrias participate a they may have bee better represete there. Ray also metioe that some voices got more emphasis tha others i the listeig sessios a oe result may have bee that egativity about trails i the orth a west of the couty may have bee over represete. Josh Lage commete that the techical avisory team has bee workig to come up with some optios for trails i those areas. Curret Coitios Upate Joh Crotty reviewe the existig coitios raft (circulate by last week) that will be oe chapter i the fial master pla. He talke about the major themes a aske that all steerig committee members provie commets to him by this Friay, September 17. He ca be reache at: joh.crotty@tpl.org or (ext 41). I particular there s a sectio about existig parks a trails a aother about existig plas that has a break ow by local govermet. He like to make sure that the iformatio cotaie there is accurate. 2

60 Techical Avisory Team Meetigs Bob Heuer aouce that he has bee gatherig all existig a propose trail ata layers, a TAT members have bee helpig. The TAT has met oce alreay to look at the existig/propose trails a to use listeig sessio results to begi to sketch out potetial corriors for trails a estiatios to coect. Ray Williams requeste to be iclue o the TAT. The ext TAT call is o September 20 at 11:00 am. Oly 4 TAT members have RSVP so far, but all are ecourage to atte. The TAT members are ow as follows: Bill Whitley, Richar Melto, Kevi Pressley, Katie R Drye, Mary Jo Gollitz, Ray Williams, Vicky Brooks, Doug Britt, Tracy Frost, Katie Ross, Bu Stewart, Jora Cook, Joshua Lage, a Dryw Blachar. Those o this coferece call set the ates a times for the two upcomig TAT calls: Tuesay October 5, a Tuesay, October 19, Please mark your calears. Bob explaie that these three calls are extremely importat because through their uratio all of the iitial corriors that coul be part of the pla will ee to be fleshe out. (The ext step will be sharig them with the public at ope houses). Fall a Witer Scheule Kelley explaie that she, Katie Drye a Travis Morehea altere the scheule a bit from that propose last week to try a provie more time for the TAT eliberatios a for the project cotract to be fialize. They propose this scheule a ask for steerig committee members to provie feeback if they see the ee for ay alteratios: a. TAT meetigs About 3 more calls with TAT, betwee mi-september a e of October. b. Iterjurisictioal meetig Lacaster, Uio Couty, Aso, (ivolvemet ot eee from eighbors that have alreay complete plas: Meckleburg, Staly, Cabarrus, Chester, York). Ieas: last week Oct. or first week Nov. c. Steerig committee meetig - Outreach a preparatio for ope houses a iscussio of o-lie survey cosier combiig i oe i-perso meetig or coferece call with the iterjurisictioal meetig. Ieas: first week i November. (2 hours total). O-lie survey: November - December, potetial 6-week uratio. (Discuss at ext steerig committee meetig, icluig how to o outreach arou it). e. Ope Houses - Ieas: 2 week of Jauary. f. TAT call/meetig i Jauary to iscuss fiigs, make ajustmets to the maps after the ope houses. g. Steerig Committee meetig. Topics: review results from ope houses a talk about iitial impressios of priorities, a make ecisios arou groutruthig, [Ieas: early February] h. Groutruthig - steerig committee members to voluteer for groutruthig hotspots. [February] i. Fial ecisios i-perso meetig oce the groutruthig is fiishe. Iea: early March. There were o commets o the propose scheule, a Kelley ivite members to be i touch if they have ay suggestios or commets. 3

61 Members Preset: Summary of Uio Couty Steerig Committee Meetig December 1, :00 AM, Iia Trail Govermet Builig Doug Britt, Moroe Cheri Clark, Lake Park Jora Cook, Weigto Shelley DeHart, Iia Trail Tracie Frost, Stalligs Lye Hair, Stalligs Marie Holla, Wesley Chapel Nacy Jacobse, Iia Trail Severi Jacobse, Iia Trail Joshua Lage, Wesley Chapel Terri Patto, Marvi [for Athoy Burma] Katie Ross, Waxhaw Lisa Thompso, Marvi Bill Whitley, Uio Couty Ray Williams, Marvi Kelley Hart, TPL Bob Heuer, TPL Travis Morehea, CTT Discussio Summary: 1. Welcome a Aoucemets Shelley DeHart welcome steerig committee members. She explaie that Katie (Reeves) Drye recetly accepte a state govermet positio, a Shelley will resume steerig committee leaership. Shelley aouce that the cotract for cosultig with The Trust for Public La has bee officially approve by all parties, a we ca resume project work. Kelley Hart ivite aoucemets from other steerig committee members. A few reporte o chages to park/trail plas a costructio, as follows: Iia Trail purchase a 51 acre parcel that will become Crossig Paths Park. Iia Trail s Park a Greeway Master Pla alreay reflects the plae park. The Village of Marvi has bee iscussig potetially purchasig a piece of la for a park but has hear some oppositio. The propose parkla is ot part of Marvi s curret Park a Greeway Master Pla. Wesley Chapel ha plae to create a ew park, but those plas have falle through. Other aoucemets: Travis Morehea will be presetig o the Carolia Threa Trail (CTT) to the Fairview Coucil o 12/13. There may be trail oppoets a the raft coceptual routes may ee to be ajuste. The Techical Avisory Team (TAT) will meet by coferece call the followig ay. Joshua Lage metioe that TCC is cosierig roa expasio projects ow. Our curret raft pla assumes that Ol Moroe Roa may be improve, which coul mea aig siewalks/trails, though expasio is ucertai at this time. 2. Project Timelie Kelley reviewe the attache project timelie a explaie that this shoul be a reasoable scheule for movig forwar if we o t ecouter ay major ifficulties. There were o questios or commets.

62 3. Techical Avisory Team Upate Bob Heuer sai the TAT has ha 3 4 coferece calls sice the July public listeig sessios. They reviewe iformatio gathere from the public listeig sessios a trie to create raft coceptual route alteratives that reflect the prefereces of the public so far, icluig coectig popular estiatios a icorporatig specific ieas for coectios geerate urig the public listeig sessios. They ve also trie to utilize existig trails or existig proposals for ew trails. There will be some revisios base o recet coversatios. Bob ecourage steerig committee members to look at the raft map (poster o isplay i meetig room) after the meetig a come talk to him if they wat to zoom ito a particular area (o Bob s computer) to review it i more etail. 4. Plaig for Public Ope Houses Kelley escribe the propose ope house format for the ext rou of public iput, explaiig that the iformatio share with a gathere from the public shoul accommoate people alreay kowlegeable about the CTT cocept as well as ewcomers. With this format we coul have 3 4 statios, with steerig committee members, CTT, a TPL staffig those statios. For example: Statio 1: Carolia Threa Trail baer a brochure type material about the overall project, as well as someoe preset to share high poits about the regioal trail cocept. People staffig this statio may ee to o outreach to catch the iterest of passersby. At Statio 1 we woul ee to covey our objective with the ope house, which is to let people kow about the CTT cocept for Uio Couty (a its muicipalities) a get feeback from them o raft coceptual routes. Statio 2: the sig i statio where we give people a copy of the survey that they will complete at a later statio. [Note, statios 1 a 2 coul be reverse] Statio 3: storyboars about the beefits of trails a greeways Statio 4: provie iformatio about the Uio Couty process, featurig a poster of the timelie, copies of the listeig sessio otes, a a escriptio of roles/resposibilities relate to the plaig process. Statio 5: the map/survey statio. We may ee 2 3 maps of the raft coceptual routes so there is eough room for everyoe to quickly approach a map a talk to oe of us. We woul ecourage participats to complete the survey at this statio, usig the poster maps as a visual ai. There woul be at least oe map that people ca write irectly o. Steerig Committee members agree to this format. Marie Holla suggeste that epeig o the ope house locatios we may wat the first statio close to foot traffic a the other statios earby, so that people ca be ushere to them oce we have met them at the iitial statio. The steerig committee braistorme potetial locatios for ope houses. The items i bol are the first choice locatios for 4 ope houses. We also iscusse potetial ates a people voluteere, as iicate, to look ito these possibilities a get back to Kelley. Locatio 1: Iia Trail Extreme Ice (2/5 as possible ay, woul ee to be a Saturay to maximize atteace) or library. Shelley will look ito this. Stalligs basketball games, large athletic facilities or coffee shop as part of Mayor coffee chat. 2

63 Locatio 2: Waxhaw First Friay (2/4, store to store; Waxhaw Wome s Club to potetially host us) Katie Ross will look ito this. Locatio 3: Moroe Aquatic a Fitess Ceter (there is area for booth or table). Doug Britt will look ito this. (The committee agree this might get lots of foot traffic urig week, i eveig) Wigate Uiversity evets, basketball game (here or Moroe) Ag Ceter evets i witer Brow Derby i Moroe Moroe farmers market Shree evets? Locatio 4: Marvi, somethig betwee Weigto a Wesley Chapel. (Evets: high school basketball games. A great evet woul be the Marvi/Weigto game. Marie will look ito this.) Other ieas iscusse relate to plaig the ope houses: How to egage electe officials (there are 13 muicipalities) ieas: sharig the map, persoal ivitatios from steerig committee members to their electe officials to atte the ope houses. Terri Patto metioe that electe officials may wat to review raft maps before the e of the process. There was some iscussio arou this a the challeges of tryig to brief so may electe officials. Kelley suggeste that if electe officials are uable to atte ope houses, they shoul be ecourage to take a o lie survey, a that survey shoul iclue raft maps. Travis metioe that CTT ca o a work sessio with a boar before it goes to a vote. Ray Williams metioe the possibility of a evet o a existig trail for a ope house, but the we iscusse the rawbacks relate to weather a the umber of people we woul likely reach. Marie poite out that we wat to capture a cross sectio of resiets a the larger sample the better for our ope houses. We iscusse that rather tha a sta aloe evet, we coul ovetail o a existig evet like a 5k race. E.g. Girls o the Ru i the sprig coul be a evet. Cheri kows a 5k trail i Lake Park that we coul utilize for a evet. We ecie to revisit this iea for a ribbo cuttig or celebratio evet whe the weather will be warmer. Ray suggeste that we have a steerig committee coferece call just before the first ope house to figure out who is atteig which ope houses a what our respective roles may be. Kelley aouce that Marie will lea the outreach committee goig forwar. Outreach ieas metioe for the outreach committee to cosier are: Avertise i all the veues oe moth i avace, s, Telephoe calls, Web postigs, Posters to owtow busiesses i Waxhaw (that are part of the First Friay evet) Wal Mart bulleti boar 3

64 Flyer i muicipal builigs, Aoucemet at coucil meetigs, WSOC, Charlotte Observer, Uio Couty commuity calear, Govermet chael, a Article i Uio Couty weekly The followig people agree to be o the committee: Cheri, Travis, Shelley, Ray, Katie, Lisa a Nacy Fraza [Nacy coul t atte this meetig but set a i avace sayig that she like to be ivolve i the ope house preparatios] 5. Placemet of o lie survey: We ra out of time to have much iscussio about the placemet of the o lie survey, but the iscussio about outreach for electe officials reveale that people wat to see raft maps (besies at the ope houses), which suggests that havig a o lie survey with raft maps available sooer tha later woul be esirable. Kelley propose that we have the o lie survey arou the same time as the ope houses. The o lie survey woul be available for about a moth (i.e. the moth of February). People seeme geerally i favor of this approach so TPL will work o preparig a raft survey. Kelley 64 aske steerig committee members to review the raft i toay s meetig packet a let her kow if they have ay specific suggestios. 4

65 Summary of Uio/Lacaster Couty Iter jurisictioal Meetig December 1, :30 11:30 AM, Iia Trail Govermet Builig Meetig Participats: Cheri Clark, Lake Park Shelley DeHart, Iia Trail Tracie Frost, Stalligs Lye Hair, Stalligs Kelley Hart, TPL Bob Heuer, TPL Marie Holla, Wesley Chapel Tobe Holmes, York Couty [by phoe] Nacy Jacobse, Iia Trail Severi Jacobse, Iia Trail Chris Karres, Lacaster Couty Plaig [by phoe] Bert Ly, Hae Staziale Jill Marshall Sherro Marshall, Catawba Regioal COG Travis Morehea, CTT Susie Morris, Cabarrus Couty Plaig [by phoe] Terri Patto, Marvi Daa Stoogeke, Rocky River RPO [by phoe] Lisa Thompso, Marvi Ray Williams, Marvi Discussio Summary: I. Itrouctio a Overview Travis Morehea welcome participats a explaie the purpose of the meetig, which is to iscuss potetial trail coectios across couty bouaries, for the couties that surrou Uio Couty a Lacaster Couty withi the propose Carolia Threa Trail footprit. Travis explaie that Meckleburg, Cabarrus, Staly, York a Chester Couties have alreay complete their CTT master greeway a trail plas. Their local govermets have alreay approve propose coceptual routes that exte to their borers so iscussio arou those coectios is likely to be brief or uecessary. Travis sai that iscussio will likely ceter arou coectios betwee Uio a Lacaster sice both of those plas are i progress a coceptual routes are still uer evelopmet. *** These otes refer to couty represetatives to ecompass iiviual tow represetatives or the couty represetative for that steerig committee. II. Uio Couty Coectios with Neighborig Couties Commets were as follows: People were i favor of a propose coectio betwee Lacaster a Uio Couty that coects to Cae Creek Park i Uio Couty, a eletig a alterative to the east suggeste i Uio Couty for its souther borer with Lacaster Couty. There was some iscussio about Waxhaw Creek a whether there shoul be a lik betwee Uio a Lacaster Couties ear the creek. The group ecie to have a propose lik i for public commet cosieratio i both couties, which meat aig a very short segmet i Uio Couty to make that coectio to the west. Further orth alog wester borer of Uio Couty, Lacaster Couty represetatives aske Uio Couty represetatives to a a short segmet alog the portio of Rehobeth Roa that curves briefly ito Uio Couty because Lacaster Couty woul like to have a propose

66 segmet ruig alog Rehobeth Roa. Uio Couty represetatives were agreeable about vettig this propose segmet with the public. Next there was iscussio about 12 Mile Creek a whether trails woul be prohibite (if it ha heelsplitter habitat). Uio Couty is cosierig vettig a potetial route ear 12 Mile Creek a aske that Lacaster represetatives cosier cotiuig a propose segmet ito Lacaster Couty. Lacaster Couty represetatives sai that it is mostly esigate as ope space curretly so they coul put a propose segmet there a the use 12 mile creek roa (irt roa) to cotiue orth. Cotiuig orth alog the Lacaster/Uio borer there was iscussio about a potetial trail alog Ma O War Roa. It was poite out that there may be issues i Marvi that preclue the whole route. It s also possible that the propose route alog Stacy Howe i Lacaster Couty coul come off. The group ecie ot to try a make a coectio betwee couties there for ow. Aother potetial lik betwee couties alog Six Mile Creek has alreay bee ietifie but may ot be feasible because of heelsplitter habitat issues. The iscussio move to Uio Couty s orther borer with Cabarrus a Staly Couties. Uio Couty represetatives have trie to create a potetial route that will meet existig propose trails i those couties, a meetig participats seeme geerally i favor of that cross bouary coectivity but were put o alert that it coul chage epeig o public commet i comig moths (like all coectios propose). No oe from Aso Couty was preset a that couty has ot yet starte CTT plaig, so Travis sai that this iscussio woul have to wait. Daa Stoogeke sai she was surprise that there was oly oe propose coectio across the easter part of Uio Couty to meet with Aso Couty a requeste to be ivolve i CTT work i Aso. III. Lacaster Couty Other Coectios with Neighborig Couties Lacaster a York Couty represetatives mae just a quick referece to Little Sugar Creek there is oe small segmet that coul be ae to brige a gap i the far orth of Lacaster Couty that woul permit a Little Sugar Creek coectio betwee Meckleburg Couty a York Couty. Tobe Holmes sai that York Couty is alreay workig o implemetatio relate to the segmets o the York Couty CTT map that ru orth to south withi York Couty a ear the Lacaster borer. It was metioe that the oly opportuities for coectio betwee Chester a Lacaster are the Highway 9 or Highway 200 briges. IV Next Steps Travis explaie that ext steps are to upate the Uio Couty a Lacaster raft maps with these ew coectio opportuities a the share the maps i public forums to see how they are receive a which emerge as the best coceptual routes.

67 Members Preset: Summary of Uio Couty Steerig Committee Meetig March 2, :00 AM, Village of Lake Park Tow Hall Mayor Becker, for Vicky Brooks, Mieral Sprigs Doug Britt, Moroe Cheri Clark, Lake Park Jora Cook, Weigto Shelley DeHart, Iia Trail Lye Hair, Stalligs Marie Holla, Wesley Chapel Nacy Jacobse, Iia Trail Severi Jacobse, Iia Trail Joshua Lage, Wesley Chapel Katie Ross, Waxhaw Lisa Thompso, Marvi Bill Whitley, Uio Couty Ray Williams, Marvi Kelley Hart, TPL Bob Heuer, TPL (by telephoe) Travis Morehea, CTT Discussio Summary: 1. Welcome Kelley Hart thake the steerig committee for their outstaig outreach a plaig for the ope houses, a aouce that our plaig process reache almost 900 members of the public, a just as importat, participats represete a goo cross sectio of the commuity, a most ha ever hear of the Carolia Threa Trail. Also, participatio of our steerig committee i the ope houses was outstaig, as early everyoe helpe with at least oe ope house. 2. Brief Summary a Discussio of Ope Houses Steerig committee members briefly iscusse their impressios of the ope houses, icluig the fact that there was a excellet turout i Waxhaw espite iclemet weather. Thaks were mae to Katie Ross for proviig special trail cookies for the Waxhaw evet (which ha a Valetie s Day theme) a for her effective cross avertisig campaig for the First Friay evet. A special thaks was also give to Shelley DeHart for orgaizig a raffle a procurig oatios of two bikes a several other prizes. (Thaks also to Marie Holla for helpig with the raffle!) Oe steerig committee member commete that electe officials shoul be aske i the future to ot participate i the public votig at ope houses, but simply observe the process, sice they will be votig later a will be iforme by the earlier public votig See attache public participatio summary. This overall summary was reviewe i etail, a the steerig committee briefly iscusse the beefits a rawbacks of upave trails over pave trails, such as potetially large cost savigs of costructig irt trails, though some voice cocers about haicap accessibility a maiteace costs of irt trails. The steerig committee also briefly iscusse the arrative resposes from the o lie survey (attache here). Kelley gave a quick summary of the resposes to help iform coceptual route selectio for this meetig, a ecourage steerig committee members to review these i more etail. She sai that compare to other o lie surveys, the respoets were especially thoughtful i proviig etaile explaatios. She apologize for ot 1

68 givig steerig committee more time to review the list, a explaie that from a scheulig poit of view, we were balacig the ee to have this meetig as soo after the ope houses as possible with the ee to have the o lie survey ope for at least oe moth. (The survey close just two ays ago). Steerig committee members also reviewe a couple of the major fiigs from the telephoe poll that are applicable to this iscussio: of the 403 people raomly surveye, i respose to a ope ee questio of what importat tows shoul be coecte, 15 percet sai they wate to see Moroe coecte, a 11 percet ietifie Waxhaw (those were the two most frequet resposes). I respose to the ope ee questio as to what are the most importat cultural, recreatio a atural resources to coect with a trail system, a full 10 percet of those surveye wate to see Cae Creek Park coecte (most popular respose). 3. Route Discussios a Selectio for CTT The steerig committee reviewe the raft route selectio factors. Mayor Becker ae oe factor to the list, a the committee agree to these factors: Public preferece (from ope houses a o lie survey) re: segmets to iclue a estiatios to coect Reaiess/political will Icorporatig a existig trail or a existig pla for a trail Regioal access (coectig to other couties i the Threa footprit) or other regioal beefits Low costs (for builig or maitaiig) Fuig availability (for esig, costructio or maiteace) Goo aesthetics Likely capacity of the propose right of way (e.g. will the terrai or the right of way permit a suitable with trail?) Kelley a Bob Heuer presete three ifferet scearios, each illustratig a potetial CTT route. They explaie the ratioale behi each sceario: how each was a attempt to maximize the factors escribe above (except for the last, which was a ew aitio) but show ifferet optios, that these routes are just itee to help jump start the iscussio, a that we ca buil a ew sceario base o the iscussio toay. The the steerig committee evaluate the ifferet parts of the stuy area, iscussig the trae offs betwee ifferet segmets. There was sigificat iscussio arou V a whether it coul be icorporate eve though it woul result i a spur i the CTT (because o coectios to Lacaster have bee plae); whether O shoul be iclue (it has the avatage of beig a existig/plae greeway for Mieral Sprigs but Mayor Becker cautioe that it might ot be wie eough to have aequate capacity); what to o arou A, C a D i the wester part of the couty; whether R woul be a better alterative over S/T; a the beefits a rawbacks of havig H as part of the system. After much iscussio, the majority selecte Sceario C with the aitio of Segmet P (thereby capturig the top 3 vote getters from public iput). See attache map reflectig the steerig committee s recommee route. NOTE: the segmets o the attache recommee route have bee labele i alphabetical orer so they o ot create cofusio i the future. However, that meas that they o ot correspo with the segmets liste above. Refer to the ope house map if you wat to cross referece the segmets escribe above.

69 4. Top Priority Segmet Discussio Next the steerig committee ecie to ietify top priority segmets for the CTT master pla for Uio Couty. Kelley explaie that these segmets will be iclue as part of the actio pla, a that the iea is to ietify a few segmets that are: particularly urget, especially importat, alreay likely to get built i the ear term, may beefit from beig highlighte i our pla, a/or will help give mometum to CTT implemetatio i Uio Couty. Steerig committee members omiate the followig segmets for cosieratio for a variety of reasos, icluig those above: A, R, O, D, M, J, N a P. They iscusse each a the vote o their top 3 (usig electroic key pa votig with priority rakig). A a R emerge as the clear leaers (33% a 29% of the vote, respectively) a segmet D came i 3 r place (17%), still far ahea of the others (the ext optio garere 9% of the vote). Some of the beefits articulate arou A relate to the fact that Stalligs alreay has a aopte peestria pla a it is possible that this trail segmet coul be evelope i the ext couple of years. Also, the public iput reveale that lot of people were itereste i trails that coect to Meckleburg Couty, a this trail woul o that. R goes through Iia Trail, aother muicipality with a aopte peestria pla that is likely to be supportive of builig this trail i the ear term. Also, this segmet heas towars Cae Creek Park, the top estiatio accorig to the public. Some of the iscussio arou D ha to o with evelopig a trail that gets further ito Uio Couty a provies liear park access to resiets towar the ceter of the couty. Aother beefit is that this trail coul potetially be evelope as part of a roa expasio/improvemet project, which woul help keep costs ow (for aligmet a costructio). NOTE: the segmets o the attache recommee route have bee labele i alphabetical orer so they o ot create cofusio i the future. However, that meas that they o ot correspo with the segmets liste above. Refer to the ope house map if you wat to cross referece the segmets escribe above. 5. Actio Plaig Discussio Because of time costraits, the actio plaig iscussio was elaye. Istea, Steerig Committee Members were aske to review the excerpte actio plas from Clevela a Staly Couty (iclue as prite haouts a attache here). The steerig committee agree to covee by coferece call i 2 3 weeks to evelop the actio pla, usig these other two to commece our iscussio. Steerig Committee members are aske to cosier which of the elemets from the other two plas they woul like to have i their actio pla a if there are ay ew actio pla steps that shoul be cosiere by the group. The ext a fial scheule meetig of the steerig committee will be by coferece call o March 16 or March 23. Date/time a coferece lie TBD. 6. Fial Master Pla Kelley circulate a raft of chapters 1 3 of the CTT Master Pla for Uio Couty a aske that committee members review a commet o these chapters withi the ext two weeks.

70 Summary of Uio Couty Steerig Committee Coferece Call March 23, :00 AM Members Participatig: Richar Melto, Ag. Extesio Doug Britt, Moroe Jora Cook, Weigto Shelley ehart, Iia Trail George Heyse, Stalligs Marie Holla, Wesley Chapel Nacy Jacobse, Iia Trail Severi Jacobse, Iia Trail Joshua Lage, Wesley Chapel Katie Ross, Waxhaw Bill Whitley, Uio Couty Jim [last ame], Uio Couty Ray Williams, Marvi Travis Morehea, CTT Kelley Hart, TPL Bob Heuer, TPL Next steps ietifie urig this meetig: 1. Kelley to circulate the raft actio pla create toay, re se Master Pla Draft of Chapters 1 3 for steerig committee commet, a raft brochure text for steerig committee commet (3/23) 2. Bob to create zoom i maps for each jurisictio by 3/25 3. Kelley to se remaiig chapters of raft master pla for steerig committee commet by 3/30 4. Travis to provie status checks to steerig committee as we work through aoptio process Discussio Summary: 1. Review of timelie a outstaig steps Kelley Hart briefly reviewe the project timelie a progress mae urig our last meetig. A meetig summary was circulate by prior to this call. Kelley explaie that this will be our last meetig/call uless we have major issues urig aoptio, i which case we will ask the committee to recovee. Kelley quickly showe some raft text for a iformatioal brochure about the project, a the group agree, after some iscussio that we ca refer to this as a 20 year visio. Ray Williams requeste a copy of the raft text by for review. Shelley ehart iquire about the availability of zoom i maps of the propose Threa coceptual route, a Bob Heuer sai he ca prouce those promptly. Travis Morehea raise this topic later urig our call, a Bob sai he will aim to have those reay this Friay. Ray commete that the gray/pik cotrast with the eighborig couties may ot be visible to color bli iiviuals, a Bob sai he will look ito ajustig the cotrast. Marie Holla aske about the re labelig of segmets, a Kelley explaie that they have bee relabele to avoi future cofusio for people seeig the maps for the first time. 2. Actio pla iscussio Steerig committee members receive avace copies of excerpte actio plas from Staly a Clevela Couties a cosiere them as moels i the iscussio that followe as they arrive at the attache raft actio pla for Uio Couty. Members agree to review a provie commets to Kelley o this raft actio pla, a the it will be icorporate ito our master pla.

71 Appeix B: Polls, Surveys, & Listeig Sessios Public Poll Results I Jue 2010, TPL commissioe a cosultig firm base i Columbia, SC to couct a telephoe poll i Uio Couty, NC as part of the Carolia Threa Trail Greeway Plaig project. The goal of the poll was to etermie perceptios a attitues of resiets who live i Uio Couty o the outoors a trails, icluig (1) iterest a participatio i outoor recreatioal activities, (2) iterest i trails a the establishmet of a trail system, (3) ietificatio of potetial estiatios that coul be coecte by a trail system, a (4) measure beefits to, factors i the evelopmet of trails. A majority of Uio Couty resiets egage i outoor activities with some regularity. 66 percet of those surveye iicate that they participate i outoor recreatioal activity withi 20 miles of their home with regular frequecy (from sometimes to very frequetly). The most popular types of outoor recreatioal activities are walkig (59%), bikig (23%), hikig (18%), swimmig (16%), gareig (14%), a fishig (13%). While may survey participats o ot curretly use trails, participats also iicate that the creatio of, a access to, trails is importat to them a woul icrease trail use. O the oe ha a majority of those surveye ever use trails, while o the other ha, a majority woul use trails more ofte if they coul more easily bike, walk, or rie a horse to oe. Moreover, creatig more trails is importat to 59% of those surveye. I fact, survey participats iicate that the most importat beefits of trails were exercise, eucatio/iterpretatio, a recreatio. Survey participats ietifie importat estiatios for coectio i a trail system. Uprompte as to which estiatio to choose, survey participats metioe 35 tows, cities, or cross-roas as importat places to coect via a trail system. Of those places liste, a full 15% sai they wate to see Moroe coecte a 11% wate to see Waxhaw this is sigificat sice there was o list of potetial estiatios from which to choose. I the same fashio, 10% of participats explicitly metioe Cae Creek Park as a importat atural or cultural resource to coect by trail. Beyo coectig other ature a recreatioal trails, survey participats iicate sai they wat to see cultural estiatios coecte. Though oly 4%, it is as sigificat as ay vote hel at the listeig sessios i July. A majority of respoets were willig to fu programs for programs to purchase la for coservatio purposes. A majority of respoets are willig to pay, through a small icrease i taxes, $30 a year for local programs create to purchase la to protect water quality, atural areas, a willife habitat. Survey participats also state that the key factors they woul cosier whe eciig to support a fue parks a ope-space program are the protectio of rikig water a water resources, laower rights, the preservatio Uio Couty s small-tow feel, a willife coservatio. To the extet that the survey reflects the cross-sectio of Uio Couty resiets, it is possible to pait a picture of resiets overall attitues towars the outoors a trails. Uio Couty resiets have a real iterest i outoor recreatioal activities a egage i them with some regularity. While a majority of resiets o ot curretly use trails,

72 there is a iterest i them a the establishmet of a trail system. The Couty s major tows a parks are importat estiatios that coul be coecte by a trail system. A fially, a majority of resiets are willig to pay a small amout i taxes to help acquire la for coservatio purposes provie that a variety of factors are cosiere i the evelopmet of trails. Survey Backgrou a Methoology CRS a TPL collaborate to efie the survey, a TPL approve the fial versio of the questioaire before implemetatio. Betwee the eveigs of July 6 th a July 8 th, 2010, CRS iterviewers coucte 403 telephoe surveys with resiets of Uio Couty, North Carolia age 18 years or oler. The represetative sample of Uio Couty was raomly selecte i accorace with cesus a couty govermet ata. The margi of error for this stuy is 4.9% at a cofiece iterval of 95%. This meas if the stuy were repeate 100 times, the the results woul be withi that 4.9% margi of error 95 times out of 100. The margi of error withi specific emographic subsectios woul be higher. There may be times whe figures o ot always equal percet, ue to the rouig of ecimals. Demographics 53% of respoets were female a 47% male. 78% of respoets were marrie. The followig table breaks ow the age of the respoets: 18 to to to to to % 15% 25% 22% 15% 14% 32% ha oe or more chilre livig at home with them, while 64% i ot have ay. 70 % of respoets complete commuity college or a higher level of eucatio. 25% of respoets ha a total househol icome of $50,000 or less, 22% totale betwee $50,000 a $100,000, a 16% possesse a total househol icome over $100,000. It is importat to ote that 36% of respoets refuse to aswer the questio about househol icome 49% of respoets live i Uio Couty for more tha 20 years, while oly 5% ha live there for less tha 3 years. Respoets were geographically groupe by zip coe: to & Iia Trail Matthews & Mila Moroe Moroe Waxhaw & Wigate 16% 22% 22% 13% 26%

73 Carolia Threa Trail for Uio Couty Listeig Sessio Participat List Weigto, 7/19 Waxhaw, 7/20 Iia Trail, 7/21 Moroe, 7/22 Barry Daiel Bryat Gerry Aams Gayle Barett Steve Basri Davi Diller Brett Baley Britt Bo Betsy Basri Vicki Evy Marily Blickma Bob Duca Patti Britt Forest Evy Mitch Dettart Shelley Duca Bob Brower Joe Evy Morga Durham Tilisa D. Haigler Steve Cock Joh Ferguso Amy Durham Kyle Kiley Patricia H. Dey Chuck Garer Daue Durham Krystopher Melto Richar Dey Kirk Gerster Ay Ewars Joatha Ormo Sally Ghet Joh Gerster Rachel Fish Roger Owes Bra Kravis Jeff Joes Bill Fraza Nacy Stoe Vo Mobley Vicki Joes Doa Haley Debbie Williams Mrs. Patto Terri Gamble- Thore Doa Heroy Kare Searle Jim Mahar Greg Heyse George Searle Yvoe McLarre Paul Howar Bill Thomisser Werer McLauri Michael Howar Martha Zakary Jo Misk Laura Hueycutt Waye O'Doell Art La Joh Pate Ra La Carol Presso Davi Log Jill Presso Guborg Log Elijah Scott Ae O'Dell Jim Settle Terry Ormisto Kim Simpso Jerry Price Hillary Stewart Leslie Stewart Bu Terrell Lia Tesar Vikki Thwig Ro Tompkis Lisa Walsh Joh Walsh Christie War Kimberly Woofor Chris Woofor Shao Wright Skip Zimmerma Ro Steerig Committee Atteees 19-Jul 20-Jul 21-Jul 22-Jul Mary Jo Gollitz P Marie Holla P P P Severi Jacobse P P P Nacy Jacobse P P P Joshua Lage P Katie Reeves P P P Katie Ross P Lisa Stiwiter P Ray Williams P P P Jora Cook P Athoy Burma P

74 Summary: Uio Couty Listeig Sessios for the Carolia Threa Trail July 19 22, 2010 Durig the week of July 19, the Carolia Threa Trail (CTT) hel four public iput meetigs i ifferet parts of Uio Couty Weigto, Waxhaw, Iia Trail, a Moroe with ivite stakeholers a the geeral public. There was goo atteace at each meetig, icluig a exceptioal turout at the Museum of the Waxhaws. Steerig Committee members were preset at each meetig a helpe facilitate ialogue amogst the atteees. At each meetig, Travis Morehea of the CTT a a represetative from the Trust for Public La (Kelley Hart a/or Joh Crotty) mae a presetatio about the CTT visio a greeways i geeral. Followig the presetatio, several poll questios, a a iscussio of the beefits a cocers associate with greeways a trails, there was a charette-style workshop where participats rew o maps, iicatig where they wishe to see trails or pipoitig estiatios that ought to be coecte. Discussio Themes: Beefits a Cocers While atteees ietifie a wie array of beefits associate with greeways a trails, the uerlyig theme was a higher quality of life. They talke about how trails egeer a sese of commuity brigig together a iversity of people who share a love for the outoors, or horses, or bikig. Participats also talke about the positive impact that trails have o health physical, metal, a emotioal. Trails provie icrease local opportuities for chilre a families to get out, exercise, a play. Safety was also metioe. By gettig peestrias a cyclists off the roa, trails make it safer for people to walk a bicycle. People also state that those trails coul provie a safe trasportatio alterative to rivig every ay. Atteees commete that there is a sigificat eucatioal value to trails a greeways. Greeways are veues for botaical a ecological expeitios. Moreover, they coect historic sites, proviig a uique perspective o bygoe eras i Uio Couty. May participats felt these atural a cultural coectios were i jeopary, especially i light of the Couty s lack of greeways a the regio s rapi rate of evelopmet. Fially, atteees poite out the etrepreeurial aspects of trails. Busiess opportuities, such as ew shops a the attractio of flexible compaies to a area with recreatioal opportuities are ope to commuities with the high quality of life associate with trails. Some commuity members expresse cocer about trails a greeways. Commo issues iclue log-term maiteace, the potetial for trespassig o private property, laower liability, emiet omai, a public safety. The commo themes here were respect for rights a local autoomy. Some atteees woere if their la woul be take by the local govermet, or if a trail user that crosse private property coul sue laowers. Furthermore participats were cocere about trail safety a the sustaiability of trail maiteace a moitorig. Travis a Kelley helpe to clarify some of these issues a commuicate the breath of the CTT visio oe that is regioal i scope but local i character a implemetatio. A key elemet of that visio is respect for the laower. Both ote that the use of emiet omai for trails is extremely rare a that the Couty, i its resolutio of support for the CTT, provie that emiet omai woul ot be use for the CTT. Moreover, North Carolia has a recreatioal use statute that places a high bure of proof o a plaitiff seekig to sue a laower o whose la the plaitiff was ijure whe usig a trail. Travis a Kelley mae referece to several comprehesive stuies oe o the safety of trails each oe iicatig that i almost all cases, trails are safer tha the eighborhoos that surrou them. Fially, to aress the overall safety a cost cocers, they

75 ote that sice the CTT is implemete at the local level, all ecisios relate to esig, use, moitorig, a maiteace are the resposibility of the local officials that represet Uio Couty s commuities. Poll Questios: Gaugig Iterest a Evisioig the CTT Averagig twety-four participats per sessio, the sessios were well attee. The majority of the atteees hear about the listeig sessios through wor of mouth (icluig s). May also fou out through the ewspaper. Several patros of the Iia Trail Library participate urig the meetig at the Library. Nearly all the atteees ha bee o greeway trail before, so they were familiar with what woul be o the grou whe the CTT comes to fruitio. Similarly, most atteees thought the goal of creatig more trails was importat. Oly a small umber thought trails were of little or o importace. Amogst the atteees for the four meetigs, the choice for the top three trail uses i orer of popularity were hikig/walkig/ruig, ature eucatio, a bikig. Other uses that receive a umber of votes were seeig historic/cultural sites, bir watchig, a horseback riig. Most people hope to coect parks (the most popular), historic builigs/sites, existig trails, tows, a waterways with trails a greeways. These results closely follow the commets mae by atteees regarig the beefits of trails a greeways. Commuity members are cocere with opportuities to get out a use parks a trails for exercise a for culture. Destiatios & Trail Coectios Durig the mappig portio of the listeig sessios, atteees ha the opportuity to place specific estiatios a trail proposals o paper. Several estiatios a coectios were highlighte i the various groups i several or all of the listeig sessios. Amogst the most metioe estiatios were: Wigate Uiversity; Cae Creek Park, Jesse Helms Park, a Coloel Fracis Beatty Park i Meckleburg Couty; the Museum of the Waxhaws a JAARS (Museum of the Alphabet); Steeplechase a Pleasat Grove Campgrou; the tows of Waxhaw, Mieral Sprigs, a Moroe; the Marvi Trail a the Mieral Sprigs Greeway; a Twelve Mile Creek. Several participats ote a few potetial areas might be utilize for trails, particularly: the iformal trail alog the power lies by Lake Proviece subivisio to Coloel Fracis Beatty Park, alog the west fork of 12 Mile Creek, a alog the east fork of 12 Mile Creek. Coclusio The results of the iscussio, polls, a mappig sessios were istructive. The majority of listeig sessio atteees believe that aig more trails is a priority for their commuities. A few participats requeste that trails ot appear i certai portios of the couty, as some sai they o t wat trails ajacet to their homes a others sai they o t thik trails will be popular i the easter portios of the couty. Some atteees thought the CTT woul best serve the ees of resiets i the more populous wester part of the couty. As such, the ext stage of plaig will require a real focus o trails a greeways that make sese i light of resiet a commuity cocers. As a ext step, members of the Steerig Committee will iscuss the listeig sessios. The a subgroup, the Techical Avisory Team, will begi explorig potetial coceptual routes base o iput receive at the listeig sessios. This fall there will be public ope houses to vet potetial coceptual routes, a all members of the public are ecourage to provie feeback.

76 UNION COUNTY CTT PUBLIC INPUT (ROUND 2) March 2, 2011 I early February 2011, Uio Couty resiets ha the opportuity to participate i ope houses a share their opiios about potetial Carolia Threa Trail (CTT) routes. Ope house participats were aske to commet o segmet alteratives. 1 A olie survey was also mae available, a o-lie survey participats were aske to share writte commets i aitio to selectig importat segmets a estiatios. The followig summarizes the results of the both the ope houses a the olie survey. I. Overview of Survey Respoets 200 Uio Couty resiets participate i four ope houses - Moroe Aquatic Ceter (66), Wigate Commuity Ceter (13), First Friay i Waxhaw (53), a Extreme Ice Ceter (68); while 208 people respoe olie betwee Jauary 28 th a February 28th. 56 percet of olie survey respoets provie their ames, a the rest chose to remai aoymous. More that half of olie respoets was from the zip coe. 87 percet of those who took the olie survey i ot atte the ope houses. 89 percet of olie respoets ha bee o a greeway/trail i the past. II. Combie Results: Ope Houses & Olie Survey Other aoymous Together the ope houses a olie survey provie importat iformatio about the most a least importat propose segmets, as well as preferre trail types, for the CTT pla i Uio Couty. Ope house participats were aske to select their most importat 6 segmets a least importat 6 segmets for Uio Couty, while olie participats were aske to select up to 10 i each category. May ope house participats i ot ietify ay least importat trail segmets. Also, although there were over 200 olie participats, may olie respoets i ot aswer every questio. The r i the table below is the total umber of respoets i that category. The % total tells us what percetage of all respoets selecte that segmet. Overall, segmets N a J garere the most support whe participats were aske to ietify the most importat segmet, while F a E garere the least whe respoets were aske to ietify the least importat segmets. However, F was the seco most popular segmet at the ope houses a i the top 1/3 whe aske about most importat segmets o-lie. Nevertheless, lots of o-lie respoets selecte it as least importat. Top 5 Most & Least Importat Segmets Most Importat Segmets No. (r = 395) % total Least Importat Segmets No. (r = 321) % total N F J E P D S B V A The segmet alteratives were evelope by the Steerig Committee a base o public iput, existig plas a the guiace of Steerig Committee members.

77 O-lie participats a survey respoets overwhelmigly preferre upave hikig trails a pave trails through ope space to ay other type. (This was true whether the results were aalyze separately or combie.) Here = the total umber of resposes, which was 741. Most Preferre Trail Types Trail Type No. (= 741) % total resposes Upave hikig Pave through ope space Upave suitable for horses Bike laes 64 9 Siewalks 60 8 Pave alog roa 35 5 III. Olie-Oly Survey Results Survey respoets were aske to select up to 4 tows, 6 parks, 6 cultural/historical sites, 4 water boies, a 2 museums or libraries (out of multiple choices of each) that ought to be coecte i the CTT pla. I this table the % refers to the % of respoets who selecte that estiatio. Top 5 Tows, Parks, a Cultural or Historical Sites to Coect Tows (r = 199) Parks (r = 193) Cultural / Historical Sites (r = 181) Waxhaw % Cae Creek % Dowtow Waxhaw % Weigto 92 46% Waxhaw % Marvi Trail 74 41% Marvi 88 44% Wesley Chapel 78 39% Coloel Fracis Beatty Weigto Optimist 92 48% 89 46% Arew Jackso Family Farm Mieral Sprigs Greeway 72 40% 56 31% Iia Trail 67 34% Stalligs Muicipal 54 28% Steeple Chase 55 30% The top 3 museums or libraries selecte were the Museum of the Waxhaws (48%), Waxhaw Library (37%), a Moroe Library (30%); the top 3 boies of water were 12-Mile Creek (71%), Cae Creek (67%), a Waxhaw Creek (45%). IV. Coclusio Attractios i the easter part of the couty (particularly Waxhaw) omiate the lists of preferre estiatios. That may reflect the high percetage of olie participats who were from zip coe It also iicates that Uio Couty resiets woul like to coect atural a cultural estiatios i parts of the couty where the populatio esity is higher.

78 CTT O-Lie Survey Create: Jauary , 2:23 PM Last Moifie: February , 8:28 AM Desig Theme: Blue Horizo Laguage: Eglish Butto Optios: Custom: Start Survey: "Start Survey!" Submit: "Submit" Disable Browser Back Butto: False CTT O-Lie Survey Page 1 - Heaig Trails a Greeways for Uio Couty Commuities Page 1 - Heaig Welcome to our public survey o the Carolia Threa Trail route withi Uio Couty. There have bee a series of public meetigs a outreach efforts to solicit iput for the evelopmet of a couty wie trail pla. This survey has bee create base o iput to ate. At previous public meetigs participats were aske to raw their recommee routes o couty maps a to ietify most importat estiatios withi the couty. The maps a estiatios that you will be aske to commet o toay are the results of public iput, existig plas a the guiace of the Steerig Committee, which is compose of couty a muicipal staff a Uio Couty citizes. The map below represets the raft routes beig aalyze for the fial pla. Trails isplaye i gree are those beig cosiere for the Carolia Threa Trail esigatio. The trail corriors i this pla are epicte with ¼ mile wie lies to show the geeral locatio of the itee route. The trail itself will be arrower, i recogitio that commuities will etermie the exact locatio of their segmets upo trail esig a evelopmet. The broaly efie greeway corriors preset multiple opportuities a ajustmets for a efie route, so that laowers ca cotiue to be ivolve i fie tuig a efiig the locatio of trails a ameities. Please take a momet to review the propose trail segmets o the map below. Whe you are reay to start, scroll ow to view the questios. We greatly appreciate your time a participatio i this process! Please oly take the survey oce.

79 Page 1 - Heaig Page 1 - Questio 1 - Yes or No Di you atte a ope house - Moroe Aquatic Ceter (2/2), Wigate Commuity Ceter (2/3), First Friay i Waxhaw (2/4), Extreme Ice Ceter (2/5)? Yes No Page 1 - Questio 2 - Yes or No Have you ever bee o a greeway/trail before? Yes No Page 1 - Heaig

80 Page 1 - Questio 3 - Choice - Multiple Aswers (Bullets) Which of these segmets are most importat to be part of the Carolia Threa Trail regioal system? You may check up to 10, a ot more tha 10, from this list of about 30. (See map for correspoig segmets): [Up To 10 Aswers] A. From the Meckleburg Couty lie follow Stalligs, the propose trail to Oak Sprigs. Coect to propose trail that follows Crooke Creek. Pass itersectio with segmet B a go south pickig up Wesley Chapel Stouts. E at segmet D. B. From segmet A follow propose trail o Crooke Creek to South Fork, past the schools alog Porter Rige Campus Dr. to Price to Rocky River to North Fork followig propose trail. The take Huters Trail to Egeview Dr. to Arbor Poite Dr to Uioville Iia Trail., joiig up with propose trail alog Crooke Creek eig back at segmet A. C. From segmet A follow propose trail alog North Fork to Stalligs., eig at segmet D. D. From Meckleburg Couty lie follow Campus Rige. to Ol Moroe., joiig propose trail alog Ol Moroe., turig ito Ol Charlotte Hwy, cotiue o propose trail, eig at segmet E City of Moroe propose trail. E. From segmet D, follow propose trail south through Dickerso Park to Belk Toawaa Park. The follow propose trail south alog Charlotte Ave to Mai St. to Frakli St, the hea orth o Suset Dr. to Quarry., the south alog Richarso Creek alog propose trail to Flag Brach eig at Jesse Helms Park a segmet F. F. From Jesse Helms Park follow Presso east to Hwy 74. Cross the railroa o Egewoo Dr. to Elm St to Bives St to Wilso St to Asoville to Phifer to Austi Grove Church. to Phifer St. to Elm St to Uiio St to Olive Brach St coectig Legacy Developmet Project. The take Ol Lawyers eig at the Aso

81 Couty lie. G. I the City of Moroe from segmet E take propose trail o Suset Dr. south a west to Griffith. Hea orth to Lacaster Ave. to Charlotte Ave. eig at segmet E. H. From segmet G follow Griffith south to Richarso Creek. Follow Richarso Creek south to Griffith to McMaus to Latha. to Ol Highway to Lacaster Hwy, eig at segmet J. I. From segmet H o Richarso Creek, follow a brach of Richarso Creek west to the utility corrior, the oto Log Hope to Rocky River to Parks McCorkle to New Trail, the oto utility corrior, fially oto Little Creek eig at segmet M. J. From Lacaster Couty lie follow Proviece orth to Harkey coectig Cae Creek Park. The take Harkey to Potter, eig at segmet M. K. From the Lacaster Couty lie a segmet J, follow Cae Creek to Cae Creek, eig at Cae Creek Park. L. From Lacaster Couty lie follow Waxhaw Creek orth a east eig at segmet J. M. From segmet P. take propose trail east alog Little Creek, joi Tarkill Brach to Twelve Mile Creek, the oto Crow to Potter to Ol Waxhaw Moroe to Robiso to Wester Uio School, eig at segmet N. N. From juctio with segmet M a O, take Waxhaw Hwy west to Mai to Waxhaw Marvi to Twelve Mile Creek, eig at segmet P. O. From juctio with segmet M a N, take Waxhaw Hwy to McNeely to Mieral Sprigs Greeway alog Bates Brach, cotiue o Bates Brach eig at segmet P. P. From Lacaster Couty lie, follow Twelve Mile Creek east evetually joiig propose trail alog Twelve Mile Creek. Eig at juctio with segmets Q a R. Q. From juctio with segmets P a R, take propose trail o East Fork of Twelve Mile Creek to Airport. Joi propose trail at airport eig at segmet D. R. From juctio with segmets P a Q, follow propose trail alog Price Mill Creek, eig at segmet D. S. From segmet P, follow propose trail alog Twelve Mile Creek eig at juctio with segmets T a U. T. From juctio with segmets S a U, follow Twelve Mile Creek joiig propose trail to Chestut Lae, eig at segmet D. U. From juctio with segmets S a T, follow Twelve Mile Creek joi propose trail eig at Meckleburg Couty lie a coect to Coloel Fracis Beatty Commuity Park. V. From segmet S follow propose trail alog New tow, joiig propose bike route to propose trail o Marvi Brach to Six Mile Creek eig at Lacaster Couty lie. W. From segmet V, follow Crae to propose trail alog Tarkill Brach to Waxhaw Marvi to Cowhor Brach eig at Lacaster Couty lie. Page 1 - Questio 4 - Ope Ee - Commets Box Why i you choose those segmets as the most importat? Please escribe their stregths/beefits. Page 1 - Heaig

82 Page 1 - Questio 5 - Choice - Multiple Aswers (Bullets) [Up To 10 Aswers] Now please list which 10 segmets are the least importat to be part of the Carolia Threa Trail regioal system? You may check up to 10, a ot more tha 10, from this list of about 30. (See map for correspoig segmets): A. From the Meckleburg Couty lie follow Stalligs, the propose trail to Oak Sprigs. Coect to propose trail that follows Crooke Creek. Pass itersectio with segmet B a go south pickig up Wesley Chapel Stouts. E at segmet D. B. From segmet A follow propose trail o Crooke Creek to South Fork, past the schools alog Porter Rige Campus Dr. to Price to Rocky River to North Fork followig propose trail. The take Huters Trail to Egeview Dr. to Arbor Poite Dr to Uioville Iia Trail., joiig up with propose trail alog Crooke Creek eig back at segmet A. C. From segmet A follow propose trail alog North Fork to Stalligs., eig at segmet D. D. From Meckleburg Couty lie follow Campus Rige. to Ol Moroe., joiig propose trail alog Ol Moroe., turig ito Ol Charlotte Hwy, cotiue o propose trail, eig at segmet E City of Moroe propose trail. E. From segmet D, follow propose trail south through Dickerso Park to Belk Toawaa Park. The follow propose trail south alog Charlotte Ave to Mai St. to Frakli St, the hea orth o Suset Dr. to Quarry., the south alog Richarso Creek alog propose trail to Flag Brach eig at Jesse Helms Park a segmet F. F. From Jesse Helms Park follow Presso east to Hwy 74. Cross the railroa o Egewoo Dr. to Elm St to

83 Bives St to Wilso St to Asoville to Phifer to Austi Grove Church. to Phifer St. to Elm St to Uiio St to Olive Brach St coectig Legacy Developmet Project. The take Ol Lawyers eig at the Aso Couty lie. G. I the City of Moroe from segmet E take propose trail o Suset Dr. south a west to Griffith. Hea orth to Lacaster Ave. to Charlotte Ave. eig at segmet E. H. From segmet G follow Griffith south to Richarso Creek. Follow Richarso Creek south to Griffith to McMaus to Latha. to Ol Highway to Lacaster Hwy, eig at segmet J. I. From segmet H o Richarso Creek, follow a brach of Richarso Creek west to the utility corrior, the oto Log Hope to Rocky River to Parks McCorkle to New Trail, the oto utility corrior, fially oto Little Creek eig at segmet M. J. From Lacaster Couty lie follow Proviece orth to Harkey coectig Cae Creek Park. The take Harkey to Potter, eig at segmet M. K. From the Lacaster Couty lie a segmet J, follow Cae Creek to Cae Creek, eig at Cae Creek Park. L. From Lacaster Couty lie follow Waxhaw Creek orth a east eig at segmet J. M. From segmet P. take propose trail east alog Little Creek, joi Tarkill Brach to Twelve Mile Creek, the oto Crow to Potter to Ol Waxhaw Moroe to Robiso to Wester Uio School, eig at segmet N. N. From juctio with segmet M a O, take Waxhaw Hwy west to Mai to Waxhaw Marvi to Twelve Mile Creek, eig at segmet P. O. From juctio with segmet M a N, take Waxhaw Hwy to McNeely to Mieral Sprigs Greeway alog Bates Brach, cotiue o Bates Brach eig at segmet P. P. From Lacaster Couty lie, follow Twelve Mile Creek east evetually joiig propose trail alog Twelve Mile Creek. Eig at juctio with segmets Q a R. Q. From juctio with segmets P a R, take propose trail o East Fork of Twelve Mile Creek to Airport. Joi propose trail at airport eig at segmet D. R. From juctio with segmets P a Q, follow propose trail alog Price Mill Creek, eig at segmet D. S. From segmet P, follow propose trail alog Twelve Mile Creek eig at juctio with segmets T a U. T. From juctio with segmets S a U, follow Twelve Mile Creek joiig propose trail to Chestut Lae, eig at segmet D. U. From juctio with segmets S a T, follow Twelve Mile Creek joi propose trail eig at Meckleburg Couty lie a coect to Coloel Fracis Beatty Commuity Park. V. From segmet S follow propose trail alog New tow, joiig propose bike route to propose trail o Marvi Brach to Six Mile Creek eig at Lacaster Couty lie. W. From segmet V, follow Crae to propose trail alog Tarkill Brach to Waxhaw Marvi to Cowhor Brach eig at Lacaster Couty lie. Page 1 - Questio 6 - Ope Ee - Commets Box Why i you choose those segmets as the least importat? Please escribe their rawbacks/weakesses. Page 1 - Questio 7 - Choice - Multiple Aswers (Bullets) What are the most regioally sigificat tows i Uio Couty that ought to be coecte by a greeway or trail? You may select up to 4 from this list: [Up To 4 Aswers] Hemby Brige Iia Trail Lake Park Marshville Marvi Mieral Sprigs

84 Moroe Stalligs Waxhaw Weigto Wesley Chapel Wigate Other, please specify Page 1 - Questio 8 - Choice - Multiple Aswers (Bullets) What are the most regioally sigificat parks i Uio Couty that ought to be coecte by a greeway or trail? You may select up to 6 from this list: [Up To 6 Aswers] Cae Creek Park Coloel Fracis Beatty Park Commo Area Park (i Lake Park) Creft Park Crossigs Path Park Dickerso Park a Gym Fre Kirby Park Suset Park Jesse Helms Park Marshville Park Nesbit Park Parks Williams Athletic Ceter Russell Park Stalligs Muicipal Park Waxhaw Park Weigto Optimist Park Wichester Ceter Wigate Park Veteras Park (i Lake Park) Other, please specify Page 1 - Questio 9 - Choice - Multiple Aswers (Bullets) What are the most regioally sigificat libraries a museums i Uio Couty that ought to be coecte by a greeway or trail? You may select up to 2 from this list: [Up To 2 Aswers] Ewars Memorial Library Moroe Library (Mai Brach) Uio West Regioal Library Waxhaw Library Brach Museum of the Alphabet Museum of the Waxhaws Other, please specify

85 Page 1 - Questio 10 - Choice - Multiple Aswers (Bullets) What are the most regioally sigificat lakes a creeks i Uio Couty that ought to be coecte by a greeway or trail? You may select up to 4 from this list: Aero Platatio Lake Lake Lee Lake Moroe Lake Twitty 6-Mile Creek 12-Mile Creek Cae Creek Crooke Creek Goose Creek Stewart s Creek Waxhaw Creek Other, please specify Page 1 - Questio 11 - Choice - Multiple Aswers (Bullets) [Up To 6 Aswers] What are the most regioally sigificat cultural, historic, or other places i Uio Couty that ought to be coecte by a greeway or trail? You may select up to 6 from this list: Arew Jackso Family Farm Arew Jackso Moumet Beaufort Massacre Battlegrou City of Moroe Historic District Cyrus Mario Rogers House Dowtow Waxhaw Erest Austi Deese House Price House Roberts-Hargett House Steeple Chase (Mieral Sprigs) Agriculture Extesio Builig Cureto Shoppig Ceter Legacy Developmet Project Marvi Trail Mieral Sprigs Greeway Mieral Sprigs Music Bar Moroe Regioal Airport Pleasat Grove Campgrou Polk Moutai Other, please specify

86 Page 1 - Image There are may types of trails that vary betwee surface types, withs, a users. Page 1 - Questio 12 - Choice - Multiple Aswers (Bullets) [Up To 2 Aswers] Whe you imagie the Threa Trail i Uio Couty, what oes it look like? Keep i mi that there will likely be a mix of trail types throughout the Couty. Please select your 2 most preferre types of trails from this list: A. Pave alog roaway B. Upave hikig trail C. Upave trail suitable for horses D. Pave trail through ope space E. Bike laes a siewalks F. Siewalks Page 1 - Questio 13 - Ope Ee - Commets Box Please share with us your thoughts for the best types of trails for the Threa Trail i Uio Couty.

87 Page 1 - Questio 14 - Ope Ee - Commets Box Aitioal commets/cocers: Page 1 - Questio 15 - Ope Ee - Oe or More Lies with Prompt Your Iformatio. [If you wish to remai aoymous, please write "aoymous" i the ame box]. a) Name: b) Zip Coe: [Maatory] Page 1 - Heaig NOTE Not all segmets appearig o the ope house maps will become part of the Carolia Threa Trail or local govermet greeway master plas. I the ear term, base o public feeback as well as techical a practical cosieratios, a fial coceptual route will be selecte from amog the may alteratives appearig o the ope house maps. The coceptual routes epicte illustrate coectios betwee estiatios, but ot precise routes. Over time, exact routes will be etermie, base o a ogoig ialogue with the commuity a potetial itereste laowers. Page 1 - Heaig For more iformatio o the Carolia Threa Trail: Shelley DeHart: Travis Morehea: Thak You Page Thak you for takig the time to share your thoughts a opiios. For more iformatio o the Carolia Threa Trail, go to: < Scree Out Page Staar Over Quota Page Staar Survey Close Page The survey is ow close.

88 Appeix C: Public Outreach Materials

89 Network of greeways propose Page 1 of 2 5/21/2010 Network of greeways propose by Tiffay Jothe :37 pm MONROE -- Where o you ru? Bike? Walk or rie horses? prit The Carolia Threa Trail wats to give you room for all of the above. The Threa Trail, a oprofit orgaizatio, is plaig a regioal etwork of greeways that will evetually reach more tha 2 millio people a 15 couties across North a South Carolia. Twelve of 14 Uio Couty muicipalities are o boar to support it. All aticipate a group of commuity meetigs set for July, hopig their resiets ca offer some irectio. Leaership members are t the oes who will raw trail lies, commuity cooriator Travis Morehea sai; locals are. The oor is wie ope, he sai. We believe very strogly i commuity selfetermiatio.... The map will totally reflect what Uio Couty folks have sai they wate i regar to trails. Trails might ot reach every tow, he sai, but each tow oes have a steerig committee mae of electe officials, tow staff a resiets to hea the process. Katie Reeves, seior plaer for Iia Trail, hopes to offer a sese of regioal coectivity a alterate ways to travel. The trails are ot etermie,... but there will likely be some threa trails ruig through Iia Trail, she sai. Lisa Stiwiter, irector of plaig for Moroe, wats to provie a space for ruers, walkers, bikers a horseback riers of all ages while offerig multiple ecoomic a health beefits. Trails promote recreatioal use, ecoomic evelopmet a cleaer air, she sai. The couty also receive grat fuig from Carolia Threa Trail to hire a cosultat a raw maps. Threa Trail efforts are le by the Catawba Las Coservacy a The Trust for Public La. Commuity meetigs are scheule for July across the couty. Uio Couty will also couct phoe surveys. For more iformatio, visit

90 Network of greeways propose Page 2 of 2 5/21/2010 MEETING SCHEDULE July 19: 6 p.m. - 8 p.m., Weigto Uite Methoist Church (this ate is peig) July 20: 6 p.m. - 8 p.m., Museum of the Waxhaws July 21: 5 p.m. - 7 p.m., Uio West Regioal Library, Iia Trail July 22: 6 p.m. - 8 p.m., Uio Couty Cooperative Extesio equirerjoural.com 2010

91 Date: July 19, 2010 Time: 6-8PM Weigto Swim a Racquet Club 4315 Matthews-Weigto Roa Weigto, NC Date: July 20, 2010 Time: 6-8PM Museum of the Waxhaws 8215 Waxhaw Highway Waxhaw, NC Where o you wat to walk, hike, bike, ru or rie a horse? We ee to hear your ieas about trails a greeways i Uio Couty. Please joi us for ay of these listeig sessios. Date: July 21, 2010 Time: 5-7PM Uio West Regioal Library 123 Uioville-Iia Trail Roa Iia Trail, NC Date: July 22, 2010 Time: 6-8PM Uio Couty Cooperative Extesio 3230-D Presso Roa Moroe, NC Katie Reeves: Travis Morehea:

92 Date: Weesay, February 2, 2011 Time: 6-8PM Moroe Aquatics & Fitess Ceter 2325 Haover Drive Moroe, NC Date: Thursay, February 3, 2011 Time: 6-8PM Wigate Commuity Ceter 315 West Elm Street Wigate, NC Where o you wat to walk, hike, bike, ru or rie a horse? We ee to hear your ieas about propose trails a greeways i Uio Couty. Please joi us for ay of these ope houses. Date: Friay, February 4, 2011 Time: 6-8PM Waxhaw First Friay at the Wome s Club 200 E. South Mai Street Waxhaw, NC Date: Saturay, February 5, 2011 Time: 10 AM-1PM Extreme Ice Ceter 4705 Iia Trail-Fairview Roa Iia Trail, NC Shelley DeHart: Travis Morehea:

93 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jauary 13, 2011 Cotact: Dea Thompso Developmet a Commuicatios Director x218 ea@caroliathreatrail.org Uio Couty to Host Ope Houses Seekig Public Iput o Carolia Threa Trail Master Pla Moroe, N.C. Uio Couty is hostig a series of public ope houses this Jauary a February to solicit iput from resiets about propose routes for the Carolia Threa Trail (The Threa). The Threa is a regioal etwork of trails, greeways, blueways a coservatio corriors likig 15 couties i North a South Carolia. It offers opportuities for walkig, bikig, hikig, palig a coectig with ature. The Threa trail etwork is esige, built a owe by the couties a muicipalities through which it is wove. Citize participatio is vital to the successful evelopmet of a fial pla for areas serve by the trail system, as well as the character, surface types a itee uses for the trails. Startig o Jauary 25, the public is ivite to atte oe of the followig public ope houses: Weigto Tuesay, Jauary 25, 6-7 pm Weigto High School (mai etrace) 4901 Moroe Weigto Roa Moroe Weesay, February 2, 6-8 pm Moroe Aquatic & Fitess Ceter, 2325 Haover Drive Waxhaw Friay, February 4, 6 8 pm Waxhaw First Friay at the Wome's Club, 200 E. South Mai Street Iia Trail Saturay, February 5, 10 am 1 pm Extreme Ice Ceter, 4705 Iia Trail - Fairview Roa Ope houses are structure so that resiets may rop i at their coveiece to lear more about The Threa a to provie iput o propose raft trail routes. Local represetatives from the Uio Couty Steerig Committee a a represetative from The Threa will be available to aswer questios, share iformatio about the regioal scope of the project, a to iscuss how to best serve the ees a wishes of commuity members i Uio Couty. Uio Couty kicke off its plaig process for The Threa i July 2010.