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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA <br /> 1991 SESSION <br /> RATIFIED BILL <br /> CHAPTER 246 <br /> SENATE BILL 623 <br /> AN ACT TO MAKE VARIOUS AMENDMENTS TO LAWS APPLICABLE IN <br /> ORANGE AND CHATHAM COUNTIES. <br /> The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: <br /> TITLE I. ORANGE COUNTY. <br /> Part 1. Orange County Land Use and Development. <br /> Section 1. The first paragraph of G.S. 153A-331(a), as applicable to <br /> Orange County because of Sections 17 and 17.1 of Chapter 460 of the 1987 Session <br /> Laws, reads as rewritten: <br /> "A subdivision control ordinance may provide for the orderly growth and <br /> development of the county; for the coordination of streets and highways within <br /> proposed subdivisions with existing or planned streets and highways and with other <br /> public facilities; for the dedication or reservation of recreation areas serving residents <br /> of the immediate neighborhood within the subdivision and residents of the immediate <br /> area within which the subdivision is located and of rights-of-way or easements for <br /> Pt street and utility purposes including the dedication of rights-of-way pursuant to G.S. <br /> 136-66.10 or G.S. 136-66.11; and for the distribution of population and traffic in a <br /> manner that will avoid congestion and overcrowding and will create conditions <br /> essential to public health, safety, and the general welfare. The ordinance may include <br /> requirements that the final plat show sufficient data to determine readily and <br /> reproduce accurately on the ground the location, bearing, and length of every street <br /> and alley line, lot line, easement boundary line, and other property boundaries, <br /> including the radius and other data for curved. property lines, to an appropriate <br /> accuracy and in conformity with good surveying practice. A subdivision control <br /> ordinance may provide that a developer may be required to provide funds to the <br /> county whereby the county may acquire and develop recreational land or areas to <br /> serve the development or subdivision, including the purchase of land which may be <br /> used to serve more than one subdivision or development within the immediate area. <br /> A subdivision control ordinance may define immediate area by reference to a <br /> comprehensive system of parks and recreation areas within the county." <br /> Sec. 2. G.S. 153A-340, as applicable to Orange County because of <br /> Sections 18 and 18.1 of Chapter 460 of the 1987 Session Laws, is amended by adding <br /> a new subsection (al) to read: <br /> "(a 1) Density bonus. For the purposes of increasing the availability of housing for <br /> persons of low and moderate income, and thereby promoting the public health, safety <br /> and welfare, a county may grant a density bonus or provide other incentives of <br /> equivalent financial value to a developer of housing within the county if the <br /> developer agrees: <br /> (1) To construct at least 40 percent (40%) of the total duplex or <br /> multifamily units of a housing development for rent to persons and <br />