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SUBDIVISION REGULATION Chapter 153A. Counties. Article 18. Planning and Regulation of Development. Part 2. Subdivision Regulation. § 153A-330. Subdivision regulation. — A county may by ordinance regulate the subdivision of land within its territorial jurisdiction. If a county, pursuant to G.S. 158A-3.#2, has adopted a zoning ordinance that applies only to one or more designated portions of its territorial jurisdiction. it may adopt suhriivisi..n regulations that apply only within the areas so zoned and need not regulate the subdivision of land in the rest of its jurisdiction. t 1959. e. Inn": 1965 c l95: 1973. c, 822. 1.1 § 153A-331. Contents and requirements of ordinance. — A subdivision control ordinance may provide for the orderly growth and development of the county; for the coordination of streets and highways within proposed subdivisions with existing or planned streets and highways and with other public facilities: for the dedication or reservation of recreation areas serving residents of the immediate neighborhood within the subdivision and of rights-of-way or easements for street and utility purposes; and for the distribution of population and Traffic in a manner that will avoid congestion and overcrowding and will create conditions essential to public health, safety,and the general welfare.The ordinance may include requirements that the final plat show sufficient data to determine readily and reproduce accurately on the ground the location, bearing, and length of every street and alley line, lot line, easement boundary line, and other property boundaries, including the radius and other data for curved property lines, to an appropriate accuracy and in conformity with good surveying, oractice. A subdivision control ordinance may provide that a developer may provide funds to the county whereby the county may acquire recreational land or areas to serve the development or subdivision, including the purchase of land which may be used to serve more than one subdivision or development within the immediate area. The ordinance may provide for the more orderly development of subdivisions by requiring the construction of community service facilities in accordance with county policies and standards, and, to assure compliance with these requirements, the ordinance may provide for the posting of bond otiany other method that will offer guarantee of compliance. The ordinance may provide for the reservation of school sites in accordance with comprehensive land use plans 3b■the 1551Fdriets or the planning agency.For the authorization to reserve school sites to be effective, the board of commissioners or planning agency, before aPproving a comprehensive land use plan,shall determine jointly with the board of education with jurisdiction over the area the specific location and size of each school site to be reserved, and this information shall appear in the plan. Whenever a subdivision that includes part or all of a school site to be reserved under the plan is submitted for approval, the board of commissioners or the planning agency shail immediately notify the board of education. That board shall romptly deeidex4ae..ther a_sti,l_ he_s_the site to he reserved and slial .n ..^ t e board of commissioners oulanning_agency o tsdin. If the board ore-duration does not vairiTl.ie„site to neserv-R17.brx,site rnav bi- reserved-. If-the-board of , education does wish the site to be reserved, the sUbtli,71Silin may not be approved 1977