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Commissioners pause proposed UDO text amendments; send letter urging state lawmakers to modify session law that limits local changes
Summary
Planning staff told commissioners on March 7 that session law 2024‑57 (Senate Bill 382) constrains the county’s ability to adopt several draft UDO text amendments, prompting the board to withdraw the proposals and refer them to the planned UDO rewrite.
Planning staff updated the Brunswick County Board of Commissioners on March 7 about three proposed Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) text amendments—transportation overlay zone (TOZ), tree/landscaping requirements and timing for transportation impact analyses (TIA)—and explained a recent state law change affects how those changes can be applied.
Kirsty, planning staff, told commissioners the UDO‑related amendments had been through multiple planning‑board reviews and a subcommittee, and that the most significant proposed changes (stronger buffers, higher landscaping requirements and new TOZ standards) could effectively constitute downzoning or create…
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