A Special Meeting of the Moore County Planning Board will be held on Thursday, July 10, 2025, at 6 p.m.

A Special Meeting of the Moore County Planning Board will be held on Thursday, July 10, 2025, at 6 p.m., in the Board of Commissioners Meeting Room which is on the second floor of the Historic Courthouse, Carthage, NC for the following purposes:

Public Hearing #1

The below proposed text amendments to the Moore County Unified Development Ordinance wil potentially affect all properties in Moore County:

1. To amend Chapter 8 (Specific Use Standards) Section 8.56.B (Group Care Facility (Standards) of the Moore County Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) as follows:

A. DEFINITION

An inpatient facility which provides supervision, medical care, behavioral rehabilitation services, counseling, and may include outpatient follow-up care, forjuveniles or adults including, but not limited to the mental or physically disabled, runaways, persons addicted to drugs, children undergoing rehabilitation or extended care, or battered spouses. This definition includes the terms homeless shelters, group homes for ex-convicts, halfway/transitional houses, boarding homes for children, psychiatric facilities, and drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities.

B. STANDARDS

1. Facilities including halfway/transitional houses, homeless shelters, psychiatric facilities, or facilities serving individuals with drug addictions or prior criminal conduct shall be in accordance with the table of uses (Chapter 6). require a special use permit (see Chapter 12).

2. A minimum habitable floor space of 100 square feet shall be provided for each individual in the facility.

3. Each group care facility shall provide at least one parking space per every two beds plus one space for each employee on the largest shift.

Public Hearing #2

A request for a Conditional Rezoning of one parcel of approximately 30.9 acres, located at 444 Farm Life School Rd, also identified as Parcel ID 00006478, from Rural Agricultural (RA) to Rural Agricultural Conditional Zoning (RA-CZ) for a Group Care Facility owned by Adult & Teen Challenge of Sandhills per Deed Book 6010, Page 492. The potentially affected properties are located on Farm Life School Rd and surrounding properties.

Public Hearing #3

The below proposed text amendments to the Moore County Unified Development Ordinance will potentially affect all properties in Moore County:

1. To amend Chapter 6 (Table of Uses), Section 6.1 (Principal Use Table) to make Major Subdivisions allowed in the Planned Development Conditional Zoning (PD-CZ) and allowed by special use permit in the Gated Community Seven Lakes (GC-SL), and Gated Community Woodlake (GC-WL) districts.

2. To Amend Chapter 19 (Subdivisions), Section 19.9.B (Major Subdivisions – Option 1 –

Conservation Design Standards) (Applicability) to make this section align with updates to the table of uses as follows:

B. APPLICABILITY

1. The conservation option shall only be permitted in the Residential and Agricultural – 20 (RA-20), Residential and Agricultural – 40 (RA-40), and Rural Agricultural Urban Service Boundary (RA-USB), residential zoning districts in accordance with the principal use table in Chapter 6.

2. All conservation subdivision plats shall comply with the requirements and standards specified in this Ordinance and in all respects with other applicable codes and Ordinances.

3. Amend Chapter 19 (Subdivisions), Section 19.10.A (Major Subdivisions – Option 2 – Conventional Subdivision Design Standards) (Applicability) to make this section align with the table of uses as follows:

A. APPLICABILITY

The conventional subdivision option shall only be permitted in the Residential and Agricultural- 20 (RA-20), Residential and Agricultural – 40 (RA-40), and Rural Agricultural Urban Service Boundary (RA-USB),) residential zoning districts in accordance with the principal use table in Chapter 6 and shall comply with the requirements and standards specified in this Chapter and in all respects with other applicable codes and Ordinances. The stricter standards shall apply.

Information pertaining to the proposed actions is available for inspection in the Moore County Planning & Inspections office at 1048 Carriage Oaks Drive, Carthage, NC 28327 during normal business hours (8am to 5pm, Monday through Friday).

Please give reasonable notice to the Moore County Planning Department at 910-947-5010 if accommodations for individuals with disabilities or impairments are required. Deaf and hearing impaired individuals may use a TDD by calling (800) 735-2962.

July 3, 2025

Contributed by Moore County Planning Board.

Read full agenda packet here.