Title
Vote on a request to approve a legislative request by the Planning Department to consider amendments to the Chatham County Zoning Ordinance required by the Chapter 160D Statutory update.
Abstract
Action Requested:
Vote on a request to approve a legislative request by the Planning Department to consider amendments to the Chatham County Zoning Ordinance required by the Chapter 160D Statutory update.
Introduction and Background:
Chapter 160D consolidates, reorganizes, and modernizes the state's planning and development statutes and repeals the existing statutes that have been collected and merged into the new 160D.
In early 2019 when 160D was being considered there were several bills relating to repeals and replacements of existing statutes. The Senate Judiciary committee merged Chapter 160D (S.422) with a set of statutory amendments proposed by the Homebuilders Association (S.355). The merger was based on the idea that neither bill should be enacted without the other. The Combined bill known as S.L. 2019-111 was signed by the governor in July Ordinances 2019. That combined bill was the basis for all the materials used by the School of Government to educate local governments on the changes that would need to be made to local land use regulations. The bill had two parts. Part one was S.355 the Home Builders Association bill and part 2 was 160D. Part 1 contained much of the new vested rights and permit choice changes. It was understood that part 1 would need to be merged into part 2 prior to Local Government land use regulations being repealed or amended. The General Statutes Commission was tasked with integrating both bills with the General Assembly passing a new bill in early to mid 2020. The effective date of the law was January 1st 2021.
Planning staff attended a comprehensive workshop in late 2019 to learn about the many statutory updates. At that time the School of Government had created a book and lots of materials based on 2019-111, with the understand...
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