The Greensboro Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) has released a draft Thoroughfare and Collector Street Plan for review and public comment until April 3 at www.guampo.org. Members of the public are invited to visit www.guampo.org to learn more about the plan, how the City of Greensboro, Guilford County, and the Towns of Summerfield, Sedalia, Oak Ridge, Pleasant Garden, and Stokesdale use it in the development review process, and how to use the interactive online tool to submit comments.
An online public meeting will be held at 4 pm, Thursday, February 16, to review this information and take comments via Zoom. Interested persons may also request to schedule a time to discuss the plan with staff during the public review period via e-mail.
The draft plan combines the existing Thoroughfare Plan and Collector Street Plans into one document, and updates the plan in numerous ways including:
- indicate where previously planned freeways, thoroughfares and collector streets have been built;
- propose new classifications where warranted;
- modify alignments for planned future roadways where warranted;
- remove previously planned roads that have been found to no longer be viable; and
- streamline formatting and provide a more user friendly, interactive online map viewer.
Area local governments use the Thoroughfare and Collector Street Plan in implementing local development ordinances to establish things like street design standards, right-of-way requirements, locations of future thoroughfares and collector streets, and number of access points. The plan also ensures new construction is built at a proper distance from existing and proposed future highways and thoroughfares. For more information on such requirements see Greensboro Land Development Ordinance, Guilford County New Unified Development Ordinance, Oak Ridge Code of Ordinances, Pleasant Garden Development Ordinance, Stokesdale Development Ordinance, and Summerfield Unified Development Ordinance.
Comments may also be submitted by e-mail; by mail to Attn: Thoroughfare Plan Amendments, Greensboro DOT, P.O. Box 3136, Greensboro, NC 27402-3136; or by fax to 336-412-6171.
