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A request by the Planning Department to schedule a legislative public hearing for January 21st, 2020 to consider amendments to the Chatham County Zoning Ordinance; specifically, Section 7.2 Definitions; Section 8.1 Relationship of Building to Lot; Section 10.13 Table of Permitted Uses; Section 17.1 Procedure; and Section 17.2 Plans.
ABSTRACT
Action Requested:
A request by the Planning Department to schedule a legislative public hearing for January 21st, 2020 to consider amendments to the Chatham County Zoning Ordinance; specifically, Section 7.2 Definitions; Section 8.1 Relationship of Building to Lot; Section 10.13 Table of Permitted Uses; Section 17.1 Procedure; and Section 17.2 Plans.
Introduction & Background:
Periodically the Chatham County Zoning Ordinance is amended to reflect the ever evolving needs of Chatham County. The Zoning Ordinance was last updated on September 16th 2019. Over the last year there has been an increase in concern for and the requested use of Recreational Vehicles as temporary or permanent residences within the county, along with other concerns related to storage and any occupation of RV's. With such issues becoming more prevalent, Chatham County planning staff set out to develop a set of definitions and regulations relating to the use of RV's in the county. Staff reached out to neighboring jurisdictions, as well as those with recent updates to their Recreational Vehicle regulations in order to formulate a set of best practices to implement in the zoning ordinance.
Additional changes to the Table of Permitted Uses are related to continued marketability of the Moncure Mega-site. In order to differentiate Moncure form the other mega sites in North Carolina the zoning ordinance needs to enable the development of life science projects. Edits to Section 17 are needed based on the continuing implementation of special study requirements and previous approved amendments to the Zoning Ordinance. The other proposed amendments to...
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