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Public Hearing on Text Amendments to the Land Use Ordinance for Compliance with N.C.G.S. Chapter 160D
PURPOSE: The purpose of this agenda item is for the Town Council to consider text amendments that would bring the Land Use Ordinance into conformance with N.C.G.S. Chapter 160D. A draft ordinance has been prepared. The consideration of an amendment to the Land Use Ordinance is a legislative decision; the Council must receive public input before reaching a decision on the draft ordinance.
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DEPARTMENT: Planning Department, Town Attorney's Office
CONTACT INFORMATION: Christina Moon - 919-918-7325, cmoon@townofcarrboro.org; Marty Roupe - 919-918-7333, mroupe@townofcarrboro.org; Patricia McGuire - 919-918-7327, pmcguire@townofcarrboro.org; Nick Herman - 919-929-3905, gnherman@broughlawfirm.com
INFORMATION: Legislation adopted as Part II of S.L. 2019-111 and revised with the adoption of S.L. 2020-15 reorganized the state's planning and development regulations combining the previously separate county (G.S. Chapter 153A) and municipal statutes (G.S. 160A) into one chapter, and relocating some regulations previously located in separate sections into the same chapter. Staff has been working closely with the Town Attorney's office to review the legislation and to identify necessary amendments to bring town regulations into compliance with the state legislation.
As noted previously, some of the key elements of the legislation include:
* The removal of conditional use districts as a rezoning mechanism (rezoning & conditional use permit at the same time); existing conditional use districts will automatically become conditional districts.
* The elimination of conditional use permits. All quasi-judicial permits will become special use permits; this change will also occur automatically.
* Comprehensive plans will become required.
* Conflict of interest provisions for legislative decisions (text amendments/rezonings) have been expanded. New co...
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