(A) Pursuant to the provisions of G.S. 160A-400.7, Union County, the City of Monroe, and the Towns of Marshville and Wingate do hereby adopt this ordinance as a joint ordinance. It is the intent of this ordinance that Union County and each city or town subscribing to this ordinance shall have complete control of all historic districts or landmarks located within its incorporated municipal limits, at the present and in the future, except to the extent that any functions are specifically delegated to the Historic Preservation Commission. Any references in this ordinance to all of the subscribing parties shall be construed to be in the disjunctive rather than the conjunctive, it not being the intent of this ordinance that any governmental entity have any authority beyond its municipal limits. At the present time, the City of Monroe, and the Towns of Stallings, Waxhaw and Weddington exercise zoning jurisdiction independent of Union County. The Towns of Indian Trail, Marshville and Wingate do not exercise independent zoning jurisdiction, with all zoning matters within those towns being administered by Union County. To the extent that this ordinance requires acts to be performed incident to a zoning ordinance, Union County shall perform those functions on behalf of Indian Trail, Marshville, and Wingate, until such time as those towns shall adopted their own zoning ordinances. It is the intent of this ordinance that upon the adoption of zoning ordinances by Indian Trail, Marshville, and Wingate that those towns would assume full authority as to all acts required under this ordinance.
(B) To the extent that any prior ordinances adopted by any governmental entity is inconsistent with this ordinance, then such prior ordinances are hereby repeated.
(Ord. O-2002-46, passed 8-5-02)