Smoky Mountain News reports:
Rules in Jackson County controlling how development occurs along the five-mile stretch or so of U.S. 441 that leads into the Cherokee Indian Reservation are undergoing review. ...
The Whittier land-use plan was a landmark event when passed four years ago. It marked one of the first attempts by any county west of Buncombe to undertake what is essentially spot-zoning. The county planning board now wants to revise the land-use plan.
County Planner Gerald Green, who was hired by the previous Democrat-controlled board just before its members were ousted during the last election, said there’s no desire in play here to strip the regulations of meaning. ...
Republican Commissioners Charles Elders and Doug Cody both said this week they support a planning board review of the U.S. 441 ordinance.
Cody described the existing regulations as “anti-development.” ...Read the full article
Rules in Jackson County controlling how development occurs along the five-mile stretch or so of U.S. 441 that leads into the Cherokee Indian Reservation are undergoing review. ...
The Whittier land-use plan was a landmark event when passed four years ago. It marked one of the first attempts by any county west of Buncombe to undertake what is essentially spot-zoning. The county planning board now wants to revise the land-use plan.
County Planner Gerald Green, who was hired by the previous Democrat-controlled board just before its members were ousted during the last election, said there’s no desire in play here to strip the regulations of meaning. ...
Republican Commissioners Charles Elders and Doug Cody both said this week they support a planning board review of the U.S. 441 ordinance.
Cody described the existing regulations as “anti-development.” ...Read the full article
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The reporter in the article seems to lack a basic understanding of basic terminology.
"Spot zoning" is an illegal practice used to exempt or apply specific rules to one, or a group of properties.
The ordinance referred to in the article is based upon the NC Statutes that allow for Community Based Zoning - a district of 640 acres or more encompassing at least 10 distinctly owned properties in a county without a countywide zoning ordinance.
Jackson County has actually utilized this ordinance for about ten years in administering the Cashiers Commercial District in the southern end of the county.
Whether or not the practice is good, bad, or indifferent, in this particular instance or any other is open for discussion but the reporter ought to do some basic research and use precise and accurate terminology.
By M. Jamison
11/10/2011