Land Use Top 10: An Overview of Planning and Development Regulation in North Carolina

Should we approve that new residential development? Can the asphalt plant really go there? How can we make it easier for good development to proceed? Communities face these challenging questions everyday, and the answers have direct impacts on citizens, economic development, and community quality of life. This session, the Land Use Top 10, will provide an overview of the rules and considerations for local planning and development regulations in North Carolina. 

School of Government faculty members, Adam Lovelady and Jim Joyce, will walk through the topics listed below, and then participants will have opportunities for small group discussions about the issues their particular communities face.  

  1. What’s the point of zoning? Purposes of development regulations.
  2. Whose rules apply where? Jurisdiction and ETJ
  3. Why do we have to plan? 160D and plan requirement
  4. My neighbor is doing what?! Zoning and development regulation 
  5. What’s gonna happen to that pretty farmland? Land subdivision regulation 
  6. Can’t we just say no? Types of decisions
  7. How do we stay out of court? Considerations for rezoning 
  8. Can we get better development? Design and form based codes
  9. How do we slow this down? Growth management tools
  10. My neighbor is still doing that! Enforcement of development regulations

 

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