Performance Standards For Selected Sites Along The U.S. 321 - Boone/Blowing Rock Corridor

Uncontrolled growth of the built environment along recently upgraded highway connectors often results in many kinds of environmental and societal problems. There are suggestions in the literature that these problems might be alleviated by applying the concept of "performance zoning." Performance zoning is based on the notion that there is a definite relationship between site and site capacity for development. To test this idea four sites along the U.S. Highway 321 - Boone/Blowing Rock Corridor were examined for their adaptability to this innovative system of land-use regulation.