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ANTICIPATED GROWTH MAPS

The maps in this Plan illustrate how its policies can move Greensboro towards our
Vision and Big Ideas. The maps are advisory and work as a system; they should be
used as a guide to finding the most applicable Plan policies. The preceding maps
showing existing conditions that are important to understanding the Anticipated
Growth Maps, which directly guide land use decisions.

• The Future Land Use Map broadly describes land use and designates areas
for airport, residential, commercial, industrial, mixed use, or reserve. Requests
for changes to zoning must consider the full range of uses and activities
permissible within those designations.
• The Future Built Form Map describes how development and land use fit
together and designates areas as within an activity center, a place type, or a
corridor.

The Anticipated Growth Maps illustrate where the City expects to see increases
in activity levels and broadly describe the type of growth and development that
is appropriate to an area. They are based on factors likely to influence future
development, many of which are shown in the Existing Conditions Maps: the
nature of existing development; the locations of future interchanges; areas where
the city needs reinvestment; existing neighborhood, corridor, and redevelopment
plans; existing areas of high growth; and existing City investments in water, sewer
and other infrastructure.

It is within Activity Centers and along Urban Corridors that the Plan anticipates
the most increases in walkable, mixed-use development. Some development in
“Urban General” or in "Regional Activity Centers" may continue to be car-oriented,
although overall the Plan seeks to increase the number of walkable, mixed-use
areas.

In preparing the Future Land Use Map and the Future Built Form Map, the City
considered the current land uses and conditions, physical and environmental
features, the availability and capacities of infrastructure to support property uses,
and the application of strategies identified in the Plan to implement the Six Big
Ideas.

“You need business growth to create a velocity of
turnover, as businesses expand and move, to create
opportunities for new growth and the types of
development that we say we want to see.
Greensboro needs to have a higher velocity.”

Developer Session, January2020

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