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RECEIVED j U N 2D 191 <br />141 <br />GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA <br />199', 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 I. Orange County Land Use and Development. <br />Section 1. The first paragraph of G.S. 153A- 331(x), as applicable to <br />Orange County because of Sections 17 and 17.1 of Chapter 460 of the 1957 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 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 Iline, 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 reRuired to provide funds to the <br />county whereby the county may acquire and develo recreational land or areas to <br />serve the development or subdivision, including the purchase of land which mad 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 arks 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 />al Density b nus. For the ur oses of increasing the availability of housing for <br />ersons of low and moderate income and thereby promoting the oubli.c health. safery <br />and welfare a county may rant a density bonus or rovide other incentives of <br />. . � __._,____ -4P 1.-,, --ft it, Irhin rhp rnunty if the <br />developer a ree <br />L1 To construct at least 40 i2ercent 4Q% of the total duplex or <br />multifamily units of a housing develo ment for rent to ersons and <br />J <br />