GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION
CHAPTER 261
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 153A-343(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b) The first class mail notice required under subsection (a) of this section shall not be required in the following situations:
(1) The total rezoning of all property within the boundaries of a county or a zoning area as defined in G.S. 153A-342 unless rezoning involves zoning of parcels of land to less intense or more restrictive uses. If rezoning involves zoning of parcels of land to less intense or more restrictive uses, notification to owners of these parcels shall be made by mail in accordance with subsection (a) of this section;
(2) The zoning is an initial zoning of the entire zoning jurisdiction area;
(3) The zoning reclassification action directly affects more than 50 properties, owned by a total of at least 50 different property owners;
(4) The reclassification is an amendment to the zoning text; or
(5) The county is adopting a water supply watershed protection program as required by G.S. 143-214.5.
In any case where this subsection
eliminates the notice required by subsection (a) of this section, a county shall
shall, at its option, provide said notice or publish once a week for
four successive calendar weeks in a newspaper having general circulation in the
area maps showing the boundaries of the area affected by the proposed ordinance
or amendment. The map shall not be less than one-half of a newspaper page
in size. The notice shall only be effective for property owners who
reside in the area of general circulation of the newspaper which publishes the
notice. Property owners who reside outside of the county's jurisdiction
or outside of the newspaper circulation area, according to the address listed
on the most recent property tax listing for the affected property, shall be
notified by mail pursuant to this section. The person or persons mailing
the notices shall certify to the board of commissioners that fact, and the
certificates shall be deemed conclusive in the absence of fraud. In
addition to the published notice, a county shall post one or more
prominent signs immediately adjacent to the subject area reasonably calculated
to give public notice of the proposed rezoning."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of June, 1995.
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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives