GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION LAW 2001-48
AN ACT relating to zoning protest procedures in the city of rockingham.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 160A-385(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) Zoning regulations
and restrictions and zone boundaries may from time to time be amended,
supplemented, changed, modified or repealed. In case, however, of a protest
against such change, signed by the owners of twenty percent (20%) or more
either of the area of the lots included in a proposed change, or of those
immediately adjacent thereto either in the rear thereof or on either side
thereof, extending 100 feet therefrom, or of those directly opposite thereto
extending 100 feet from the street frontage of the opposite lots, an amendment
shall not become effective except by favorable vote of three-fourths of all the
voting members of the city council. council, excluding the
mayor. The foregoing provisions concerning protests shall not be applicable
to any amendment which initially zones property added to the territorial
coverage of the ordinance as a result of annexation or otherwise, or to an
amendment to an adopted special use district or conditional use district if the
amendment does not change the types of uses that are permitted within the
district or increase the approved density for residential development, or
increase the total approved size of nonresidential development, or reduce the
size of any buffers or screening approved for the special use or conditional
use district."
SECTION 2. This act applies to the City of Rockingham only.
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 7th day of May, 2001.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives