A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for the continued planning for the heart of the triad project.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Greater Winston‑Salem Chamber of Commerce, a nonprofit organization, the sum of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to develop and implement the adopted plan from the Heart of the Triad study. The implementation plan includes land-use recommendations and transportation investments to make the region efficient and sustainable while reducing air pollution and preserving green space in an area covering 6,300 acres. The largely undeveloped land overlaps two counties and is surrounded by five municipal governments (Greensboro, High Point, Kernersville, Oak Ridge, and Winston‑Salem) which have worked cooperatively throughout 2006 to develop a conceptual plan. The implementation of the plan has the potential to create more than 110,000 jobs in this area over the next 25 years.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.