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HISTORIC CARPENTER SPECIAL PLANNING AREA Carpenter Today Northern Section of the Carpenter Special Planning Area The northern sec on of the special planning area includes primarily open land, a few ac ve farms, land owned by the Town of Cary, and rural homesites. This area includes several historic proper es listed in Cary's Historic Resources Inventory. This area has not seen the development pressures that other parts of town have experienced in recent years, but that is likely to change, as new subdivisions have recently been built at the north and northeast edge of the Carpenter area. The Town's acquisi on of the A. M. Howard Farm site with its historic homestead and farm buildings offers an opportunity to preserve some of Carpenter's rural character. Southern Section of the Carpenter Special Planning Area The southern sec on of the special planning area includes the historic crossroads at Morrisville-Carpenter Road's intersec ons The Historic Carpenter Crossroads Village includes several proper es on the Na onal Registry of Historic Places, and offers opportuni es for new infill development designed to frame and complement the historic crossroads character. with Carpenter Upchurch and Carpenter Fire Sta on Roads. The Historic Crossroads Area remains largely unchanged from its early 20th Century beginnings, and the Town's acquisi on of the C. F. Ferrell Store site and its historic warehouses provides an opportunity to preserve key elements of the crossroads. While the Magnolia Estates and Olde Carpenter subdivisions have recently encroached on the southern edge of the historic crossroads, there s ll remains some ac ve cul va on and rural homesites. The new neighborhoods were designed using vegetated buffers to shield views of these developments from the main roads and from the crossroads. 183