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Excerpt from 1994 Thoroughfare Plan for the Asheville Urban Area This report describes the update of the Asheville Urban Area Thoroughfare Plan. The thoroughfare plan is intended to provide the State of North Carolina and the urban area guidance in the development of a transportation system sufficient for travel demands through year 2020. The Asheville Urban Area is nestled in the Smokey Mountains in the western part of the state. The urban area consists of the City of Asheville; the Towns of Biltmore Forest, Black Mountain, Fletcher, Montreat Weaverville, and Woodfin; and most of Buncombe County. Figure 1 shows the Asheville area in relation to the rest of the State. The previous thoroughfare plan was adopted on January 6, 1975. Thoroughfare plan updates in urban areas are generally needed every five to ten years. The update to the Asheville plan began in 1989. Transportation plays a vital role in the development of an area. The needs of business, industrial, and residential communities are supported by the transportation system. The purpose of a thoroughfare plan is to assess the needs of these communities and provide a safe, efficient, and economical transportation system for the present and future. In this report, transportation encompasses various modes of transportation single occupant automobiles, carpooling, transit, walking, and biking are all discussed and where appropriate, are a part of the solution to the various deficiencies in the area. The major emphasis is on improving the street network for automobile use as that is how the majority of travelers choose to meet their transportation needs. The system of thoroughfares proposed follows the basic Principles of Thoroughfare Planning as described in Chapter 2 of the report. There are many benefits to be derived from thoroughfare planning. The primary objective is to enable major thoroughfares to be progressively developed that will adequam service future traffic demands. The location of thoroughfares depends on field investigation, aerial photos, existing and anticipated land uses, and topographic conditions. It also considers the travel concerns of the community and its public representatives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.