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In 2019, the North Carolina General Assembly adopted Chapter 160D Local Planning and Development Regulation.The chapter unified existing city and county planning and development regulations into a single chapter, and required local jurisdictions to bring their ordinances into conformance by July 1, 2021.
Norwood’s first public school was built in 1913 on the site of the present Norwood Elementary School. The Pee Dee River was a natural resource to be tapped for producing electricity. The Yadkin had already been developed in the prior decade by Alcoa to produce electricity for their smelting facility in Badin.
The constitutionality of zoning ordinances was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co. in 1926. The zoning ordinance of Euclid, Ohio was challenged in court by a local land owner on the basis that restricting use of property violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Ambler ...
In North Carolina, particularly in its fast-growing cities, there is an acute shortage of affordable housing. The median home price rose by 25 percent in 2021 and bumped up an estimated 5 percent ...
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Generally, zoning is a constitutional exercise of a state's police power [4] to protect public health, safety, and welfare. Therefore, spot zoning (or any zoning enactment) would be unconstitutional to the extent that it contradicts or fails to advance a legitimate public purpose, such as promotion of community welfare or protection of other properties.
Exclusionary zoning is the use of zoning ordinances to exclude certain types of land uses from a given community, especially to regulate racial and economic diversity. [1] In the United States, exclusionary zoning ordinances are standard in almost all communities.
An Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance (APFO, also known as a Concurrency Regulation) is an American legislative method to tie public infrastructure to growth for a region. [1] APFOs take into account the availability of infrastructure. They can manage growth, but are considered separate from growth controls such as building moratoria. [2] [3]