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Peletier commissioners adopt shed, manufactured-home and RV-park ordinance updates
Summary
The Town of Peletier approved amendments clarifying residential shed rules and setbacks for manufactured-home and travel-trailer parks after planning staff recommended removing a proposed anchoring requirement as preempted by the North Carolina building code; the board accepted the planning-board consistency statement and voted to adopt the changes.
The Town of Peletier Board of Commissioners voted Oct. 28 to adopt a package of zoning amendments that revise rules for residential sheds and update standards for manufactured-home and travel-trailer parks.
Planner Rosemary McCall, representing the town’s planning staff, told commissioners she removed a proposed shed-anchoring requirement after consulting land-use counsel and county building-code officials. McCall said the town could not impose a more restrictive local building-code standard and that the anchoring language was therefore inappropriate. "The shed anchoring requirement will fall under the purview of the state building code," McCall said, and recommended the board approve the amendment as revised.
McCall also presented the planning board’s written recommendation and consistency statement for the record and outlined additional changes clarifying lot- and lot-line wording for manufactured-home and travel-trailer parks. She said she added a reference to fire-apparatus-access requirements so staff can route plans through the town fire marshal during review.
Commissioners debated the scope of the changes and whether the fire-apparatus-access reference should remain in zoning text as a reminder; staff said the fire marshal must review plans regardless, but the reference helps applicants find the requirement. After a motion to adopt the amendments, including the planning-board consistency statement, the board approved the ordinance changes by voice vote.
The amendments were advanced to the commission with planning-board review and a public hearing already on the record; the planner noted the anchoring language had not been in the version presented to the public and that removing it avoided imposing a standard outside the state code’s scope. No individual roll-call vote totals were recorded in the transcript; the board’s adoption was announced by unanimous 'aye' responses during the meeting.
The changes revise local zoning text to align with state building-code limits on local regulation and to add clearer lot-line language and procedural steps for manufactured-home and RV-park plan reviews. The board folded the planning-board recommendation into the motion before final adoption.
