TITLE
Title
UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (UDO) TEXT AMENDMENT CASE #25-10-PLBD-00137: AN AMENDMENT TO SUBSECTION 1 (GENERAL PROVISIONS) SECTION 1.4 AND SUBSECTION 3 (PERMITS AND PROCEDURES) SECTION 3.5.M TO ALIGN THE UDO WITH RECENT AMENDMENTS TO NCGS 160D-203 and 160D-601 PER SESSION LAW 2025-94; HOUSE BILL 926
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SPONSOR
Sponsor
Jason Hardin (J. Leslie Bell)
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BACKGROUND
Background
Proposed Text Amendment Case #25-10-PLBD-00137 (attached) amends Subsection 1 and Subsection 3 of the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) to align with recent changes to North Carolina General Statute 160D-203 and 160D-601 per Session Law 2025-94; House Bill 926 by the General Assembly on October 6, 2025. The law prohibits waiting periods for resubmission and withdrawal limits of development applications. As a result, Subsection 3 (Permits and Procedures), Section 3.5M Rezoning (Conventional & Conditional / Map Amendment, of the UDO, is amended to remove the one year waiting period for refiling of a rezoning (map amendment) application and it removes the limitation on the number of withdrawals of a rezoning request (map amendment) on the same parcel within a one-year period.
The law also creates conditions in which a landowner may elect to apply planning and development regulations of one local government over another for split-jurisdiction properties by 1) mutual agreement and written consent which shall be evidenced by a resolution formally adopted by each governing board and recorded with the register of deeds in every county where the land is located within 14 days of the adoption of the last required resolution; or 2) the landowner of land lying within the planning and development regulation jurisdiction of more than one local government may elect the planning and development regulations of the local government where the majority of the total acreage of the parcel of land is situated.
In either case, this law shall not affect taxation or other nonregulatory matt...
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