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Planning staff recommends removing small shopping centers from CR zoning; board tables action pending legal review

Oak Island Planning Board · April 29, 2026
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Summary

Town planning staff proposed removing shopping centers under 30,000 square feet from the commercial recreation (CR) zoning district table of uses; staff recommended approval but warned a state downzoning statute may require written consent from all affected property owners, and the board voted to table the item pending legal review.

Planning staff presented a proposed amendment to the unified development ordinance (UDO) that would remove shopping centers of less than 30,000 square feet as a permitted use in the town's commercial recreation (CR) zoning district.

Matt, a planning staff member, said the proposed change would revise section 6.5 of the UDO to better align permitted uses with the low-density, oceanfront character of the CR district and the…

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