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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 1. 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 Ether <br />public facilities; for the dedication or reservation of recreation areas serving residents <br />of the immediate _eiehber -heed with:_ •L- subdivision and residents of the immediate <br />area within which the subdivision is located and of rights -of -way or easements for <br />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 ere aired 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 />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 />