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Gastonia council removes local child‑care caps, amends transportation language to match state guidance
Summary
The City Council voted unanimously Sept. 16 to amend the Unified Development Ordinance to allow state licensure to determine capacity for home‑based child‑care and to clarify how the city reserves right‑of‑way consistent with the Comprehensive Transportation Plan.
The Gastonia City Council on Sept. 16 approved changes to its Unified Development Ordinance that remove locally written numeric limits on child‑care centers located in private residences and add language allowing staff to require right‑of‑way or setback reservations that track more detailed state or NCDOT plans.
Assistant Planning Director Joe Gates said the change to section 2.7 deletes the local cap on the number of children served in licensed home child‑care settings so the city will “follow suit” with state licensure instead of repeatedly amending local code. “Instead of always trying to play catch up with the state and modify as needed, we felt that by actually just deleting a portion of the ordinance… now it reads that if the…
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