(A)
In its interpretation and application, the provisions of this chapter shall be held to be minimum requirements, adopted for the promotion of the public health, safety and general welfare. Wherever the requirements of lawfully adopted rules, regulations, ordinance, deed restrictions, or covenants, the most restrictive, or that imposing the highest standards, shall govern.
(B) Whenever any condition or limitation is included in an order authorizing a special use permit, variance, zoning compliance permit, certificate of occupancy or site plan approval, it shall be conclusively presumed that the authorizing officer or body considered such condition of limitation necessary to carry out the spirit and purpose of this chapter or the requirement of some provision hereof, and to protect the public health, safety and welfare, and that the officer or Board would not have granted the authorization to which the condition or limitation pertains except in the belief that the condition or limitation was lawful.
(C) All actions challenging the validity of this chapter or amendment adopted thereto shall be brought within nine months after enactment.
(D) The Zoning Ordinance of Warren County, North Carolina, duly adopted August 5, 1963, and amendments adopted thereto, are hereby repealed.
(E) This chapter, adopted June 3, 1985, by the Board of Commissioners, shall take effect and be in force from and after June 3, 1985.
(F) This chapter, duly adopted June 3, 1985, by the County Board of Commissioners, amended as of February 2, 2004, September 11, 2006, June 22, 2009, January, 4, 2010, March 1, 2010, September 6, 2011, October 1, 2012, July 1, 2013, May 2, 2016, May 7, 2018, November 4, 2019, December 7, 2020 and June 7, 2021, shall take effect and be in force from and after June 7, 2021.
(Ord. passed 5-7-2018; Ord. passed 6-7-2021)