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Pender County staff previews UDO amendment to expand farmers and artisan markets
Summary
Staff presented a conceptual Unified Development Ordinance amendment to allow farmers and artisan markets as regulated temporary uses countywide (except conservation), remove a 60-day limit and allow markets up to eight months. Board members discussed definitions, vendor limits, food trucks, restroom and parking requirements and asked staff to draft text for future review.
Pender County planning staff previewed a proposed text amendment to the Unified Development Ordinance intended to modernize rules for farmers and artisan markets and reduce permitting barriers.
Senior planner Virginia Norris described the concept as a workshop item: the amendment would treat markets as a regulated temporary use (permitting markets in all zoning districts except environmental conservation), create formal definitions for farmers markets, artisan markets and market events, remove the existing 60-day limit and allow markets to operate for extended seasonal periods—up to eight months—under a market-event designation that triggers specific standards.
Norris said the…
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