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Durham commissioners adopt UDO changes and rezone most of Research Triangle Park to new UC‑3 district
Summary
The board unanimously adopted a text amendment creating a University and College 3 (UC‑3) zoning district and rezoned roughly 5,000 acres of Research Triangle Park to UC‑3, after staff clarified that existing data centers will be grandfathered and future UDO edits will list data centers with specific limited standards.
Durham County commissioners voted unanimously on Nov. 24 to amend the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) to create a University and College 3 (UC‑3) zoning district and to rezone the bulk of Research Triangle Park (RTP) to that new district.
Robin Schultz of the county Planning and Development Department presented TC25000001, a privately initiated text amendment aimed at expanding university and college standards to allow large scientific and technical research parks to use a UC‑3 framework. Schultz told the board the UDO amendment establishes a tiered approach — an internal campus plus transitional use areas — and said a related zoning map change (Z2500025) would…
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