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Burke County staff propose UDO updates, zoning and subdivision changes to speed housing and development
Summary
Planning director Alan Glines urged updates to the county’s Unified Development Ordinance, subdivision rules and minimum‑lot standards; commissioners asked staff to draft text amendments to allow higher density where public sewer is available and to streamline conditional/rezoning pathways.
Burke County’s planning director reviewed the county’s land‑use code and recommended a mix of short‑, mid‑ and long‑term updates to the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) and subdivision regulations intended to reduce uncertainty for developers and speed housing production.
Director Alan Glines told commissioners the UDO consolidates zoning, subdivision and site standards and that many developers research local rules online before contacting staff. He said overly restrictive lot‑size and subdivision standards and a complex permitting pathway create a cost and time barrier to builders. Glines recommended targeted short‑term changes (density standards, subdivision thresholds and special‑use permit triggers), mid‑term work on overlays and standards for new uses, and a longer‑term rewrite if…
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