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File #: [25-0522]    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Discussion Item Status: Failed
File created: 11/5/2025 In control: Town Council
On agenda: 11/19/2025 Final action:
Title: Omnibus Text Amendment to the Chapel Hill Land Use Management Ordinance and Town Code
Attachments: 1. LUMO_Resolution - Consistency and Reasonableness, 2. LUMO_Ordinance - Approving the Text Amendments, 3. LUMO_Staff Report, 4. LUMO_Staff's Draft Presentation, 5. LUMO_Planning Commission Recommendation, 6. Staff Presentation, 7. Council Questions with Staff Response
Related files: [25-0470], [25-0420]

AGENDA ITEM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

ITEM TITLE

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Omnibus Text Amendment to the Chapel Hill Land Use Management Ordinance and Town Code

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RESPONSIBLE STAFF, TITLE, DEPARTMENT*

Tas Lagoo, Long-Range Planning Manager, Planning Department

STAFF RECOMMENDATION*

Close the hearing, adopt Resolution A, and enact Ordinance A.

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LEGISLATIVE CONTEXT*

The Land Use Management Ordinance (LUMO), Town Code Appendix A Section 8.1 requires Town Council, in its legislative capacity, to consider proposed amendments to the LUMO. NCGS 160A-174 provides for the creation of Ordinances through enactment by the Council.

BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT*

Council previously discussed this text omnibus text amendment on October 22, 2025. Proposed revisions to be considered include:

                     Increasing the allowed size of duplexes, ADU’s, and cottages;

                     Making existing manufactured home communities permitted uses in their respective zoning districts;

                     Decreasing minimum lot sizes;

                     Allowing flag lots and “zero-frontage lots”;

                     Updating certain infrastructure requirements for subdivisions to only apply when new roads are constructed or when subdivided lots front on higher capacity streets;

                     Removing mandatory parking minimums;

                     Removing Concept Plan Reviews;

                     Removing administrative Site Plan Reviews for most projects;

                     Removing “Community Design Commission Final Plans Reviews;”

                     Giving staff authority over all subdivision applications;

                     Streamlining the conditional zoning process;

                     Allowing projects with existing Special Use Permits to add new uses that are already designated as permitted uses within the relevant zoning district without additional Council approval; and

                     Miscellaneous technical corrections

COMPLETE COMMUNITY CONNECTION

The proposed amendments are intended to support incremental in-fill development in Chapel Hill, streamline review processes, and help to move the Town away from project-by-project decision making.

ATTACHMENTS

Ordinance and Resolution

                     LUMO_ Resolution - Consistency and Reasonableness

                     LUMO_ Ordinance  - Approving the Text Amendments

Staff and Advisory Board Materials

                     LUMO_Staff Report

                     LUMO_Staff’s Draft Presentation

                     LUMO_Planning Commission Recommendation

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