NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 142

SENATE BILL 251

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 416 OF THE 1973 SESSION LAWS TO ELIMINATE THE GENERAL TERM "CAPITAL PROJECTS", AND TO SPECIFY THOSE PROJECTS WHICH SHALL BE SUBJECT TO REVIEW BY THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG PLANNING COMMISSION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Chapter 416 of the 1973 Session Laws of North Carolina is hereby amended by deleting Sections 1 and 2 in their entirety and substituting in lieu thereof new sections to read as follows:

"Section 1. No governmental unit in Mecklenburg County, including independent boards, agencies, commissions, authorities, special districts and local public institutions shall authorize or construct any project listed below, or acquire or sell any real property, exclusive of easements, until the location and extent thereof has been submitted to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission for its review.

Project, as used in this act, shall include, but not be limited to streets; widening of existing streets, exclusive of widenings confined to intersection improvements; bikeways; transit stations and terminals; busways; public buildings, such as auditoriums, stadiums, hospitals, schools, fire stations, neighborhood centers, community centers, service garages, court buildings, exclusive of additions that may be made to existing structures, and exclusive of minor buildings auxiliary to such public buildings; parks and playgrounds; public housing and housing wholly or partially supported by financing from governmental agencies within the jurisdiction of this act, exclusive of improvements to established housing projects; storage yards; and water and sewer utility systems including service lines 10 inches or larger, in areas that are not served by existing water distribution or sewage collection systems.

Sec. 2. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission shall have 30 days from the date of submission to review the project or action and to make whatever response, if any, to said project or action. A longer period of review may be granted by the instrumentality making the submission."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of April, 1977.