CHAPTER 91: UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE
Section
Purpose and Applicability
   91.01   Title
   91.02   Authority
   91.03   Purpose
   91.04   Applicability
   91.05   Conflicts with other regulations
   91.06   North Carolina State Building Code
   91.07   Severability
   91.08   Interpretation
   91.09   Identification of Official Zoning Map
   91.10   Zoning Map interpretation
   91.11   Relationship to comprehensive plan
   91.12   Development approvals run with the land
   91.13   Refund of illegal fees
   91.14   Enforcement
   91.15   Effective date
   91.16—91.19   Reserved
General Regulations
   91.20   Applicability of general regulations
   91.21   Reduction of lot and yard areas prohibited
   91.22   Street access
   91.23   Relationship of building to lot
   91.24   Required yards not to be used by building
   91.25   Lot requirements/dimensions
   91.26   Street intersection sight visibility triangle
   91.27   No use or sale of land or buildings except in conformity with unified development ordinance provisions
   91.28   Height limitation exceptions
   91.29   Lot size without all public utilities
   91.30   Property dedicated for private use
   91.31   Temporary buildings
   91.32   Business uses of manufactured homes and trailers
   91.33   Permit to construct driveway required
   91.34   Fees
   91.35   Split jurisdiction
   91.36   Pending jurisdiction
   91.37—91.39   Reserved
Administrative/Legislative Authority
   91.40   Administrative staff
   91.41   Planning Board
   91.42   Board of Adjustment
   91.43   Conflicts of interest
   91.44—91.49   Reserved
Legislative/Quasi-Judicial Procedures
   91.50   Process for adoption of development regulations
   91.51   Moratoria
   91.52   Vested rights and permit choice
   91.53   Development agreements
   91.54   Appeals, variances and interpretations
   91.55   Quasi-judicial procedures
   91.56   Special use permits
   91.57   Rehearings
   91.58—91.59   Reserved
Development Review Process
   91.60   Applicability
   91.61   Administrative development approvals and determinations
   91.62   Pre-application meeting and sketch plan
   91.63   Administrative development approval - minor site plan or subdivision
   91.64   Planning Board review and development approval (major site plan or subdivision)
   91.65   Engineering drawing review requirements
   91.66   Site plan procedures
   91.67   Subdivision procedures
   91.68—91.69   Reserved
Zoning Districts
   91.70   Establishment of zoning districts
   91.71   Interpretation
   91.72   Primary zoning districts
   91.73   Conditional zoning district
   91.74   Table of permitted/conditional uses
   91.75   Zoning district development standards
   91.76—91.79   Reserved
Supplemental Regulations
   91.80   Introduction
   91.81   Accessory uses
   91.82   Portable storage container
   91.83   Adult entertainment business
   91.84   Battery charging/exchange station
   91.85   Reserved
   91.86   Kennel
   91.87   Mixed use
   91.88   Service station
   91.89   Shopping center
   91.90   Tattoo and body piercing parlor
   91.91   Telecommunication facilities
   91.92   Cemeteries
   91.93   Child care center
   91.94   Crematorium
   91.95   Place of assembly
   91.96   Bona fide farm
   91.97   Golf and driving range, par 3
   91.98   Golf course
   91.99   Auction conducted entirely within a building
   91.100   Auction, estate
   91.101   Granny pods
   91.102   Homestay lodging in residential districts
   91.103   Tiny houses
   91.104   Whole house lodging/homestay lodging in the O/I and NE districts
   91.105—91.109   Reserved
Nonconforming Situations
   91.110   Intent
   91.111   Nonconforming uses
   91.112   Nonconforming structures
   91.113   Nonconforming lots of record
   91.114   Repairs and maintenance
   91.115   Planned residential development and planned unit development
   91.116   Nonconforming signs
   91.117—91.119   Reserved
Performance Standards
Part I: Off-Street Parking and Off-Street Loading Requirements
   91.120   Off-street parking requirements
   91.121   General provisions
   91.122   Requirements for parking lots
   91.123   Manufactured home and trailer parking and storing
   91.124   Vehicle storage
   91.125   Vehicle stacking areas
   91.126   Parking space dimensions
   91.127   Handicapped requirements
   91.128   Loading areas
   91.129   Parking ratios
   91.130—91.139   Reserved
Part II: Landscape, Buffering and Screening
   91.140   Purpose
   91.141   Applicability
   91.142   Tree resource management
   91.143   Landscape requirements
   91.144   Bufferyards
   91.145   Additional requirements for buffers and for yards in which buffers are required
   91.146   Installation
   91.147   Maintenance
   91.148   Landscape plan
   91.149   Tree protection during construction
   91.150   Recommended plant list
   91.151—91.159   Reserved
Part III: Building Facade Design
   91.160   Intent
   91.161   Applicability
   91.162   Exempt
   91.163   Standards
   91.164   Alternative compliance
   91.165—91.169   Reserved
Part IV: Outdoor Lighting
   91.170   Purpose and intent
   91.171   Applicability
   91.172   Exempt
   91.173   Lighting plan
   91.174   Site lighting design requirements
   91.175   Illumination levels
   91.176   Excessive illumination
   91.177   Nonconforming lighting
   91.178—91.179   Reserved
Part V: Emergency Management Standards
   91.180   General provisions
   91.181   State Codes
   91.182—91.189   Reserved
Part VI: Sign Regulations
   91.190   Purpose
   91.191   Zoning certificate procedures
   91.192   General requirements
   91.193   Prohibited signs
   91.194   Sign area and location
   91.195   Illumination
   91.196   General maintenance requirements
   91.197   Reconstruction of damaged signs or sign structures
   91.198   Commercial, business and industrial districts: additional requirements
   91.199   Subdivision identification signs
   91.200   Unlawful cutting of trees
   91.201   Excluded signs
   91.202—91.209   Reserved
Part VII: Subdivisions
   91.210   Standards for review
   91.211   Sketch plans
   91.212   Preliminary plats for minor and major subdivisions
   91.213   Final plats for all subdivisions
   91.214   Information to be provided on preliminary and final plats
   91.215   Recombination of land
   91.216   Resubdivision procedures
   91.217   Compliance with provisions required
   91.218   Suitability of land
   91.219   Name duplication
   91.220   Subdivision design
   91.221   Stormwater drainage facilities
   91.222   Erosion and sedimentation control
   91.223   Streets
   91.224   Utilities
   91.225   Effect of plat approval on dedications
   91.226   Variances
   91.227   Cemetery subdivision lot size exemption
   91.228   Notice of new subdivision fees and fee increases; public comment period
   91.229   Final plat certifications and other documentation
   91.230—91.239   Reserved
Environmental Regulations
Part I: Flood Damage Prevention
   91.240   Statutory authorization
   91.241   Findings of fact
   91.242   Statement of purpose
   91.243   Objectives
   91.244   Lands to which this section applies
   91.245   Basis for establishing the special flood hazard areas
   91.246   Establishment of floodplain development permit
   91.247   Compliance
   91.248   Abrogation and greater restrictions
   91.249   Interpretation
   91.250   Warning and disclaimer of liability
   91.251   Designation of Floodplain Administrator
   91.252   Floodplain development application, permit and certification requirements
   91.253   Duties and responsibilities of the Floodplain Administrator
   91.254   Corrective procedure
   91.255   Variance procedures
   91.256   General standards for flood hazard reduction
   91.257   Specific standards for flood hazard reduction
   91.258   Standards for floodplains without established base flood elevations
   91.259   Standards of riverine floodplains with BFE data, but without established floodways or non-encroachment areas
   91.260   Floodways and non-encroachment areas
   91.261   Standards for areas of shallow flooding (Zone AO)
   91.262   Standards for areas of shallow flooding (Zone AH)
   91.263   Legal status provisions
   91.264—91.269   Reserved
Part II: Stormwater Control
   91.270   General provisions
   91.271—91.279   Reserved
Part III: Sedimentation and Erosion Control
   91.280   General provisions
   91.281—91.289   Reserved
Part IV: Riparian Buffers
   91.290   General provisions
   91.291—91.299   Reserved
 
   Appendix A: Definitions
      A.1   Purpose
      A.2   Interpretation
      A.3   Definitions
   Appendix B: Installation detail