NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 400

HOUSE BILL 824

 

AN ACT AMENDING G.S. 160A-381 TO PERMIT THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF DURHAM TO REQUIRE THE SUBMISSION OF DEVELOPMENT PLANS WITH REZONING REQUESTS AND THE SUBMISSION OF SITE PLANS SHOWING PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION AS A CONDITION PRECEDENT TO ISSUANCE OF BUILDING PERMITS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 160A-381 is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following provision:

"The City Council of the City of Durham may require that a development plan showing the proposed development of property be submitted with any request for rezoning of such property. The City Council may consider such development plan in its deliberations and may require that any site plan subsequently submitted be in conformity with any such approved development plan.

The City Council of the City of Durham may require that a site plan be submitted and approved prior to the issuance of any building permit. The City Council may specify the information to be set forth in a site plan and may require that such site plan be prepared by a professional engineer, architect, or land surveyor licensed to practice in North Carolina. The City Council may prescribe procedures for the review of such site plans to insure that development of property shall conform to applicable zoning and building laws and regulations or any other relevant law or regulation. The City Council may require that site plans be in conformity with previously approved development plans for the same property."

Sec. 2. This act shall apply only to the City of Durham.

Sec. 3. This act shall be in full force and effect upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of May, 1973.