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Currituck commissioners adopt zoning text updates to align ordinance with state law
Summary
The Currituck County Board of Commissioners approved two staff-initiated text amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance to conform local rules on bona fide farm exemptions, manufactured homes, parking dimensions, entry points and related definitions to recent North Carolina statutory changes.
Currituck County commissioners on Dec. 1 approved two staff-recommended text amendments to the county's Unified Development Ordinance intended to make local rules consistent with recent changes to North Carolina law.
Planner Miss Turner told the board the package (PB 25-01) shifts definitional material, removes a year-based manufactured-home cutoff, amends the bona fide farm exemption references and updates parking- and lot-coverage measurement rules so the county's ordinance mirrors state requirements. "We're just codifying it in our ordinance," Turner said, adding the planning board and staff recommended approval because the changes align with the Imagine Currituck 2040 Vision Plan and state statutes.
Turner also presented a related staff-initiated amendment (PB 25-19) to require pre-application conferences and community meetings to be held within one year of application submittal and to clarify who may file development applications depending on the review body. "We're suggesting that any development applications reviewed by the Board of Adjustment or the Board of Commissioners have to be submitted by owners or contract purchasers, and all owners would have to consent," Turner said; other, staff-level approvals could be filed by an authorized agent.
Commissioners moved and approved both amendments by voice vote after brief discussion and no public speakers on the items. A commissioner asked whether failure to amend would make the county's rules unenforceable; Turner answered yes, saying the changes make the ordinance consistent with the North Carolina fire code and other statutory limits.
The approved changes include multiple chapter updates and struck date-based language that previously distinguished manufactured homes by construction year. The planning and permitting procedures item includes a timeline expectation (pre-application conference and community meeting within 12 months of an application) to support a new online permitting portal.
