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--: ..„-- , - • 62 ) GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA 1989 SESSION RATIFIED BILL CHAPTER 478 HOUSE BILL 915 AN ACT TO MAKE SUNDRY AMENDMENTS CONCERNING LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN ORANGE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: Section 1. The Charter of the Town of Chapel Hill, being Chapter 473, Session Laws of 1975, is hereby amended by adding a new Section 5.20 to read as follows: "Sec. 5.20. Ordinances permitting low and moderate housing and providing density bonuses. • (a) For the purpose of increasing the availability of housing for persons of low and moderate income, and thereby promoting the public health, safety and welfare, the Town of Chapel Hill may grant a density bonus or provide other incentives of equivalent financial value to a developer of housing within the Town and its (77) extraterritorial planning jurisdiction, if the developer agrees: ... ... ..,. ..- (1) To construct at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the total units of ...... ' - a housing development for persons and families of low or Moderate income; (2) To construct at 'least ten percent (10%) of the total units of a housing development for lower income households. (b) For the purposes of this Article, 'density bonus' means a density increase of.at least twentv-five percent (25%) over the otherwise maximum allowable residential density under the applicable zoning classification. The density bonus shall not be included when determining the number of housing units which is equal to ten percent (10%) or twenty-five percent (25%) of the total. The Town may apply the density bonus to housing developments consisting of five or more dwelling units." Sec. 2. The Charter of the Town of Carrboro, being Chapter 476 of the Session Laws of 1987. is amended by adding a new section to Article 9 to read: * "Section 9-6. Stopwork Orders. The Board of Aldermen may provide in its land use ordinance that the land use administrator may issue stopwork orders whenever • violations of the land use ordinance are discovered and the administrator concludes I • that irreparable injury will occur if the alleged violation is not terminated immediately. The ordinance shall provide for an expedited procedure whereby a stopwork order may be appealed to the board of adjustment. The ordinance may also provide that a violation of a stopwork order that has not been appealed or that has been upheld on appeal shall constitute a misdemeanor." Sec. 3. G.S. 153A-123 is amended by adding a new subsection (h) to read as follows: "(Ill A county MBV nrovide in its zonine ordinances. subdivision regulations. or .. ..., - ., other land use ordinance that the administrator of the ordinance mav issue stopwork orders when violations of such ordinances are discovered and the administrator ...:,