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There are now 130 aircraft based there with approximately 50,000 take-offs and landings in the last year. The amount of activity and its pace of increase at the airport has a definite negative effect on new residential development in the general area surrounding it. Another change in the area has been in the overall zoning patterns. Parcels of land within this area that have bc~n annexed into the City of Concord since 1992 have b~n administratively rezoned to industrial categories. These changes in zoning have bc-c~n requested by the petitioners for annexation and been approved by the City Council. The zoning activity is indicative of the overall change in growth patterns of the area caused by the King's Grant development, infrastructure improvement, airport activity, and other surrounding non- residential uses. The factors that affect future land use and zoning in this area of the Western Area Plan have changed since its adoption. It is recommended, therefore, that the plan be altered to reflect these changes. The following specific changes are recommended: 1) The area referred to as King's Grant should be changed to more accurately represent the retail and service emphasis of the development around and extending from the interchange. The map should also be altered to reflect the new alignment of the King's Grant Parkway between 1-85 and Derita Road as that will surely change traffic patterns in the area. 2) Areas rezoned since 1992 that have varied from planned recommendations should be corrected on the land use map. These areas represent policy decisions by the elected boards based upon specific analyses of properties (as opposed to the general analysis of an area plan). 3) The residential area along the westside of Derita Road over to the Rocky River should be changed to Future EmploymenL This recommended change is the result of the specific analyses done to analyze a rezoning request and reflective of the other changes in the area. The Western Area Plan will be reviewed in total as the City of Concord, Cabarrus County, and the other municipalities within the County develop the unified development ordinance. That ordinance will require a complete administrative rezoning of the entire County, regardless of jurisdiction, and all area plans will be reviewed to assist in proper application of zoning districts.