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COMPAR/SON AND ANALYS:[S WITH EXZSTI'NG ORDTNANCE <br /> <br />ARTTCLE 1 <br /> <br />Purpose: The purpose of this article is to establish the County's power to enact <br />and enforce zoning and subdivision regulations, This article draws language and <br />power from North Carolina General Statutes." <br /> <br /> Major Points Discussed: <br />· Defines zoning and subdivision authority. <br />· Discusses vested rights, <br />· States that all changes in zoning text and map must be consistent with a <br /> Comprehensive Plan. <br />· Defines the effective date. <br />· Describes violations of this ordinance and remedies to those violations. <br /> <br />Hajor Similarities/Differences: <br />· The UDO requires consistency with Comprehensive Plans. <br /> <br /> Courts define <br />comprehensive plans broadly, for example, maps and zoning text, area plans <br />and comprehensive plans. Requiring consistency will make decisions more <br />legally defensible. <br />Defines enforcement procedures for emergency and non-emergency matters. <br />This again provides guidance for legal defensibility. <br />Vested rights are covered in Chapter 1 of the current Zoning Ordinance. <br />Vested rights are covered in detail in the UDO in Article 13, Section 13.2 in <br />the UDO. The content of the two ordinances is the same. Vested rights are <br />controlled by the North Carolina General Statutes. <br /> <br />Examples: <br /> <br />None <br /> <br /> <br />