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Johnston County planning director: chapters A and B of UDO complete; animal rules to be removed, public review set for June
Summary
Planning Director Braston Newton told the Johnston County Board of Commissioners that chapters A and B of the proposed Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) have been reviewed and will go to legal for review prior to public release; he said animal-regulation language will be removed and staff proposes a June public release with hearings in September and possible adoption in October.
Braston Newton, the county planning director, told the Johnston County Board of Commissioners on May 4 that stakeholders have reviewed chapters A and B of the proposed Unified Development Ordinance line-by-line and those chapters will be sent to county legal before being released to the public for review.
“We have gone through line by line, both chapters A and B at this point, and those are completed,” Newton said, adding that legal review is the next step before public release. Newton said his intent is to publish revised chapters as legal clearance is received and to publish the full revised UDO in June, followed by a three-month public review and planning-board public hearing.
The draft schedule Newton proposed includes a planning-board hearing this summer, suggested board public hearing dates of Sept. 8 or Sept. 21, and a possible adoption date of Oct. 5 if the process proceeds as planned. Newton also proposed one or more informal, drop-in public sessions; a tentative date of July 16 was…
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