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Planning director briefs commissioners on two zoning text amendments; one previously approved by City Council
Summary
Forsyth County planning director Chris Murphy briefed commissioners on two zoning text amendments — Studio CC 28 and UDO CC 29 — noting planning board unanimous recommendations and prior city council approval for Studio CC 28.
Chris Murphy, Forsyth County planning director, presented two text amendments during the March 27 meeting: Studio CC 28, which modifies minimum lot-size rules for single‑family homes within residential and multifamily districts, and UDO CC 29, a cleanup ordinance making procedural changes to Historic Resources Commission (HRC) provisions and renaming positions from director of inspections and director of planning to director of planning and development services.
Murphy said both measures received unanimous recommendation from the city‑county planning board. He noted that Studio CC 28 has already been approved by the Winston‑Salem City Council. The changes to HRC procedures followed state legislation enacted some years earlier that consolidated planning law under N.C. Gen. Stat. §160D; UDO CC 29 primarily aligns local ordinance language with those statutory procedural changes.
Why it matters: Text amendments change the local development rules and administrative titles that govern permitting and historic‑review processes. Local developers, property owners and historic‑preservation stakeholders rely on the unified procedures described in the state statute.
What Murphy said: "As you recall, I did brief these two weeks ago... Studio CC 28 went through the planning board with a unanimous recommendation for approval. City council has approved it," Murphy said. On UDO CC 29, he described the amendment as a cleanup to conform HRC procedures to state statute.
Outcome and next steps: Murphy offered to answer questions and said staff previously briefed commissioners; no formal county board action on the text amendments was recorded at this meeting beyond the briefing.
