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The new Chapter 160D local planning and development regulations of the North Carolina General Statutes combines current land use regulations (Chapters 153A and 160A) into one, consolidated chapter that more coherently organizes the statutes. While there are not major policy or scope shifts, cities and counties must incorporate these changes into their local development regulations by July 1, 2021 (based on North Carolina General Statutes Commission bill S720).
All cities and counties in North Carolina must comply.
These planning and development regulation updates affect the following components:
The bottom line is that every local government in North Carolina has work to do.
Carving out time to draft, collaborate and edit zoning and land development regulations is a challenge at any time. Remote work situations, shutdowns, and other delays in the wake of COVID-19 have only compounded that issue.
Kendig Keast Collaborative (KKC) and enCodePlus can help.
Let us show you how to seamlessly update your ordinances and publish them on a user-friendly, interactive website that offers developers and the public easy access to all the information they need.
Kendig Keast Collaborative is an urban planning consultancy with 38 years’ experience drafting and updating plans and development ordinances for jurisdictions across the United States. They have served more than 175 cities and counties in 42 states, including current NC clients Marvin and Harrisburg.
KKC’s skilled team of expert planners can either manage a project from start to completion or provide consulting assistance to local planners who manage their projects in-house on the enCodePlus web-based content management platform, while engaging KKC support for drafting and editing updates.
New planning and development regulations identified in Chapter 160D of the North Carolina general statutes include substantive zoning and other development ordinance changes. KKC has current and direct experience in drafting and updating ordinances to comply with these new requirements.
Every jurisdiction is unique, and their needs vary. KKC can scale service as needed to provide full-service project management or simple drafting and editing assistance. They can support local planners who handle their projects in-house with the enCodePlus intuitive, 24/7 cloud-based collaboration tool.
KKC’s AICP certified planning staff has combined experience of more than 120 years in local government and consulting service. Their practice has served both small and large communities in a variety of settings and across a multitude of planning environments.
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Centennial, CO
“The City Manager believes that a well written unified development code that is executed can work, as he quoted, “It will be a design that we believe creates flexibility in land use, allows better land development scenarios to be embodied into a redevelopment project to mitigate the conflicts of use.” If you create more flexibility of land use then you have to create the ability for the adjacent property owner to be buffered from that more conflicting use and you can do that with good site design.”
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Florence, SC
