AGENDA ITEM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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Call a Hearing to Consider an Omnibus Land Use Management Ordinance Text Amendment
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RESPONSIBLE STAFF, TITLE, DEPARTMENT*
Tas Lagoo, Long-Range Planning Manager, Planning Department
STAFF RECOMMENDATION*
Adopt the resolution to call a legislative hearing on October 22, 2025, to consider text amendments regarding housing regulations, permitting and entitlement processes, sign regulations, parking requirements, and other miscellaneous improvements and a Town Code of Ordinances text amendment regarding residential driveways.
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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. Creations, modifications, and/or deletions are required to be presented to Council for approval.
BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT*
* Members of the Town Council have expressed an interest in considering amendments to the Land Use Management Ordinance prior to completion of the comprehensive LUMO rewrite.
* Proposed revisions to be considered include, at minimum:
o Increasing the allowed size of duplexes, ADU's, and cottages;
o Making existing manufactured home communities permitted uses in their respective zoning districts;
o Decreasing minimum lot sizes;
o Allowing flag lots and "zero-frontage lots";
o Updating certain infrastructure requirements for subdivisions to only apply when new roads are constructed or when subdivided lots front on higher capacity streets;
o Removing mandatory parking minimums;
o Removing Concept Plan Reviews;
o Removing administrative Site Plan Reviews for projects outside of Neighborhood Conservation Districts;
o Removing "Community Design Commission Final Plans Reviews;"
o Giving staff authority over all subdivision applications;
o Streamlining the conditional zoning process;
o Allo...
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