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New state law prompts Southern Pines to pause character-district and landscaping changes
Summary
After the Legislature amended the downzoning definition in Senate Bill 382 (Session Law 2024-57), Southern Pines planning staff recommended and council agreed to continue several landscaping and character-district code changes to review legal implications and avoid creating widespread nonconformities.
Town planning staff told the Southern Pines Town Council Dec. 17 that a recent change to North Carolina law — enacted as part of Senate Bill 382 (Session Law 2024-57) and affecting revisions to N.C. Gen. Stat. 160D-601 — alters the statutory definition of "downzoning." The change, staff said, adds creation of many types of nonconformities (uses, lots, structures and site elements) to the definition, which could make design standards that add new site- or building-level requirements effectively create…
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