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Mooresville staff propose UDO change to broaden payment-in-lieu options for transportation projects; finance says sidewalk fund created
Summary
Planning staff proposed an amendment to the Unified Development Ordinance to allow payment in lieu in more circumstances for transportation plans; commissioners pressed for clearer formulas, documentation and an internal fund to track payments; town finance said a separate sidewalk fund already exists.
Town planning staff asked commissioners to amend the Unified Development Ordinance on Sept. 10 to add circumstances under which a developer may pay a fee in lieu of constructing transportation facilities shown in the town’s high-level plans.
James Colley presented text amendment TA2025-06, saying the change would give the town flexibility when high-level plans (for example, multimodal or greenway plans) require improvements that become infeasible or duplicative on private parcels. “We want to have the flexibility and the ability to allow for construction of the best possible path to make it as usable and not lose any function,”…
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