(A) This ordinance is officially titled as the “Unified Development Ordinance of Town of North Topsail Beach, North Carolina”, and shall be known as the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) or the ordinance. The official map designating the various zoning districts shall be titled “Town of North Topsail Beach Zoning Map”, and shall be known as the zoning map.
(B) The official map designating the various zoning districts shall be titled “Town of North Topsail Beach Zoning Map”, and shall be known as the zoning map.
(1) The zoning map shall be maintained for public inspection in the Office of the Town Clerk. The maps may be in paper or a digital format approved by the local government.
(2) Development regulations adopted pursuant to this ordinance may reference or incorporate by reference flood insurance rate maps, watershed boundary maps, or other maps officially adopted or promulgated by state and federal agencies. For these maps, a regulation text or zoning map may reference a specific officially adopted map or may incorporate by reference the most recent officially adopted version of such maps. When zoning district boundaries are based on these maps, the regulation may provide that the zoning district boundaries are automatically amended to remain consistent with changes in the officially promulgated state or federal maps, provided a copy of the currently effective version of any incorporated map shall be maintained for public inspection as provided in paragraph (A) of this section.
(3) Copies of the zoning map may be reproduced by any method of reproduction that gives legible and permanent copies and, when certified by the Town Clerk in accordance with G.S. § 160A-79 or G.S. § 153A-50, shall be admissible into evidence and shall have the same force and effect as would the original map.
(Ord. passed 11-2-2011; Ord. passed 7-1-2021)