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Planning board recommends broad UDO text amendments to align local rules with 2024 state changes
Summary
The Moore County Planning Board voted to recommend multiple amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance to conform local rules to recent North Carolina legislative changes affecting childcare home definitions, performance guarantees, signage, built-upon area definitions and farm uses including boarding horses.
The Moore County Planning Board voted to recommend approval of a package of text amendments to the county Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) designed to align local rules with statutory changes adopted by the North Carolina General Assembly in the 2024 session.
Planner Danielle presented the package and said the amendments respond to multiple state actions. "What started this is we had an applicant come in with a permit and she had a request for a specific number of children within a home care facility and when we were doing the research, we came across a discrepancy even at the state level ... so that's what brought about the text amendment," Danielle said, explaining that the proposed language would reference the relevant North Carolina statutes instead of repeating numeric limits so future state changes do not require repeated local amendments.
Key changes recommended by the planning board include: - Childcare home facility definitions (Chapter 8): replace numeric limits in the local…
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