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Council continues Unified Development Ordinance text-amendment hearing; urban-archery proposal discussed
Summary
Council continued the public hearing on UDOTA 1-25 to July 21 after receiving public and community feedback; a resident spoke in favor of expanding Clayton's urban archery program and discussed safety and neighboring-city models.
The Clayton Town Council continued a public hearing on proposed text amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance (UDOTA 1-25) and related language changes to July 21 to allow staff time to refine proposed wording and gather more input on specific items including mass grading and urban archery regulations.
Planning staff explained they needed additional time to respond to council and community comments received after a June 2 work session and said staff had engaged the development community and the planning board on mass-grading language. The UDOTA item includes a range of proposed edits such as raising an outdoor seating threshold from 12 to 20 and revised urban-archery language to address planning-board comments.
During the public hearing, resident Sean Whitfield identified himself as a Clayton hunter and urban-archery advocate and described accident and crop-damage statistics he cited from the N.C. Department of Transportation and county data. He said Clayton is one of 57 North Carolina cities with urban-archery programs but observed no deer have been harvested in Clayton in the prior four years. Whitfield pointed to Shelby and Concord as examples of programs with clear parcel-size rules and mapped hunting areas; he told the council, in discussing safety, that "of archery, there's only really been 1 fatal accident over the past 40 years in North Carolina." No other speakers addressed the council on the item.
After public comment the council voted to continue the hearing to the July 21 meeting to allow staff and the development community time to refine the mass-grading language and other edits. Staff said the planning board had provided feedback and deputy town staff were reaching out to development stakeholders. The council did not take final action on UDOTA 1-25 at this meeting.
