(A) No person shall commence or proceed with development without first securing approval from the town as herein provided.
(B) As defined in G.S. § 160D(12), DEVELOPMENT means any of the following:
(1) The construction, erection, alteration, enlargement, renovation, substantial repair, movement to another site, or demolition of any structure.
(2) The excavation, grading, filling, clearing, or alteration of land.
(3) The subdivision of land as defined in G.S. § 160D-802.
(4) The initiation or substantial change in the use of land or the intensity of use of land.
(C) No building or land shall hereafter be used and no building or part thereof shall be erected, moved, or altered, except in conformity with the regulation herein specified for the district in which it is located. The provisions of this chapter shall apply within the corporate limits of the town and within its extraterritorial jurisdiction as now or hereafter fixed, as shown on the zoning map. The town may exercise any power conferred by G.S. Ch. 160D and this chapter in its extraterritorial jurisdiction that it is exercising within its corporate limits.
(Ord. passed 7-9-1985; Ord. passed 5-10-1990; Ord. passed 3-9-1999; Ord. passed 8-10-1999; Ord. passed 3-14-2000; Ord. passed 5-9-2000; Ord. passed 9-9-2003; Ord. passed 9-13-2005; Ord. passed 9-12-2006; Ord. passed 6-29-2021) Penalty, see § 154.999