(A) There shall be a Zoning Board of Adjustment (hereinafter called the Board of Adjustment). This Board of Adjustment shall consist
of five members and two alternatives who shall receive no compensation for their services. Four members shall be residents of the area within the town’s corporate limits. All members of the Board of Adjustment shall be appointed by the Town Board. One regular member of the five- member regular Board of Adjustment, along with one of the two alternates, shall be residents of the town’s one-mile extraterritorial jurisdiction. The Town Board shall from time to time review and confirm the existence of proportional representation based on population for residents of the town’s extraterritorial jurisdiction pursuant to G.S. § 160D-307(a).
(B) The original appointment of the five members shall be made as follows: one member shall be appointed for a term of one year; two members shall be appointed for a term of two years; and two members shall be appointed for a term of three years. All appointments to fill vacancies shall be for the unexpired term.
(C) The town, at its discretion, may appoint not more than two alternate members to serve on the Board of Adjustment in the absence, for any cause, of any regular member. The alternate member or members shall be appointed for the same term or terms as regular members, and shall be appointed in the same manner as regular members and at regular times for appointment; provided, however, that in the case of the first appointment of alternate members, the appointment shall be for a term of any regular member expires. The alternate member, while attending any regular or special meeting of the Board and serving in the absence of any regular member, shall have and exercise all the powers and duties of the regular member so absent.
(D) The Board of Adjustment shall have all powers and duties as set forth in this chapter and is permitted by G.S. § 160D-302.
(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)