GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
H	1
HOUSE BILL 664

 
 
Short Title:	Rockingham City Zoning Protests.	()	
Sponsors:	Representative Goodwin.	
Referred to:	Local Government I.	
March 19, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT relating to zoning protest procedures in the city of rockingham.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 160A‑385(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Zoning regulations and restrictions and zone boundaries may from time to time be amended, supplemented, changed, modified or repealed. In case, however, of a protest against such change, signed by the owners of twenty percent (20%) or more either of the area of the lots included in a proposed change, or of those immediately adjacent thereto either in the rear thereof or on either side thereof, extending 100 feet therefrom, or of those directly opposite thereto extending 100 feet from the street frontage of the opposite lots, an amendment shall not become effective except by favorable vote of three‑fourths of  the voting members of the city council, excluding the mayor. The foregoing provisions concerning protests shall not be applicable to any amendment which initially zones property added to the territorial coverage of the ordinance as a result of annexation or otherwise, or to an amendment to an adopted special use district or conditional use district if the amendment does not change the types of uses that are permitted within the district or increase the approved density for residential development, or increase the total approved size of nonresidential development, or reduce the size of any buffers or screening approved for the special use or conditional use district."
SECTION 2.  This act applies to the City of Rockingham only.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.