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Mooresville planning board holds training on UDO, conflicts and decisionmaking
Summary
Planning staff led a training for the Mooresville Planning Board on the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO), the advisory role of the board, conflict‑of‑interest rules, permissible vs. impermissible considerations and best practices for preparing recommendations to the town board.
Planning staff led the Mooresville Planning Board through a comprehensive training on the board’s advisory duties, the town’s Unified Development Ordinance and the legal limits on decisionmaking.
The presentation, delivered by a planning department staffer (Speaker 4), outlined the board’s role in advising the Board of Commissioners on rezonings and text amendments, described the comprehensive land use plan as the guiding policy document, and emphasized that town authority in North Carolina exists only where the state grants it by statute. “You, as a planning board, are an advisory board,” Speaker 4 said, adding that “the governing board is…
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