Pender County adopts 2050 Comprehensive Land Use Plan with Planning Board edits

The Pender County Board of Commissioners on Nov. 3 adopted the county—s 2050 Comprehensive Land Use Plan, a nonregulatory framework intended to guide land-use decisions, infrastructure funding priorities and long-range implementation across the county. The board approved the plan as presented with the changes recommended by the Planning Board.

Planning staff told commissioners the plan reflects roughly 20 months of work including two rounds of countywide public engagement, more than 1,400 survey responses between September and October 2024 and multiple in-person meetings. The document lays out three high-level vision themes — coordinate growth and conservation, support the county—s fiscal health, and maintain a high quality of life — and nine goals broken into 31 policies and about 114 specific implementation actions prioritized by time horizon.

The plan also includes a future land use map that…