02/21/00 Zoning Moratorium & Ext Text Amendment Extension DateHARNETT COUNTY RC
Book 1401
Pages 0833 -0836
FILED 9 PAGEISI
02/22/2000 12:39 PM
KIMBERLY S. HARGROVE
Register Of Deeds
BY. Deputy /Asst
AN ORDINANCE AMENDMENT TO EXTEND
THE EFFECTIVE TIME LIMITS OF THE SEPTEMBER 7, 1999
HARNETT COUNTY DEVELOPMENT MORATORIUM
AS ADOPTED BY THE HARNETT COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
ON
FEBRUARY 21, 2000
AN ORDINANCE AMENDMENT TO EXTEND
THE EFFECTIVE TIME LIMITS OF THE
HARNETT COUNTY DEVELOPMENT MORATORIUM
THAT WHEREAS, on September 7, 1999 the Harnett County Board of Commissioners
unanimously adopted an ordinance entitled, "An Ordinance Establishing a Six (6) Month
Moratorium on the Processing or Issuance of Certain Land Use Permits for Those Portions of
Harnett County Which are Unincorporated, Unzoned and Located South of the Cape Fear River';
and,
WHEREAS, the stated purpose of the Moratorium was to allow the Commissioners, the
Planning Board and the Planning Department staff an opportunity to gather the necessary
information and to obtain public input regarding possible zoning in the unzoned areas of Harnett
County while a moratorium was in effect on certain development; and
WHEREAS, since the adoption of the Moratorium Ordinance on September 7, 1999, the
Board of Commissioners has participated in public meetings in each of the six townships in Harnett
County that are either totally unzoned or have unzoned areas in order to receive public input
concerning proposed zoning. In addition, the Board has received numerous petitions, letters and
communications from citizens regarding zoning; that the County Planning Department has
researched and mapped current land uses in the unzoned portions of Harnett County in conjunction
with the findings of the 1999 Update to the Harnett County Land Use Plan and as a result thereof
various drafts of proposed zoning maps have been prepared and issued for public review; that on
February 17, 2000, a public hearing on proposed zoning was held at the Harnett Central Middle
School auditorium which was attended by approximately 450 citizens where 38 individuals spoke
and asked questions on the record concerning zoning and the proposed zoning maps; and
WHEREAS, as a result of the great amount of interest and citizen input on this most
important issue, the Board of Commissioners has decided that prior to the instigation and adoption
of any zoning in those unzoned areas of Harnett County located south of the Cape Fear River that
additional time is needed for the Board, the County Planning Board and the County Planning
Department to analyze and review the proposed zoning information and the citizens' input from the
various meetings and public hearing and in doing so an extension of the Development Moratorium
Ordinance is in order and the Board of Commissioners desires through this amendment instrument
to do so.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED AND ENACTED by the Board of Commissioners
of the County of Harnett, N. C. as follows:
That the six month effective time ofthe Harnett County Development Moratorium Ordinance
which began on September 7, 1999 and extended until March 6, 2000 is hereby extended for ninety
(90) days until June 4, 2000 or until the adoption date of a zoning map which would add certain
unzoned portions of Harnett County located south of the Cape Fear River to the territorial coverage
of the current Harnett County Zoning Ordinance, whichever date shall first occur. All of the
moratorium provisions including the processing or issuance of development permits as contained
in the Harnett County Development Moratorium Ordinance of September 7, 1999 shall remain in
full force and effect during this extension period.
Duly adopted by unanimous vote of the Harnett County Board of Commissioners at its
regular meeting on February 21, 2000.
HARNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Dan B. Andrews, Chairman
ATTEST
Kay Blanchard
Clerk to the Board
NORTH CAROLINA
HARNETT COUNTY
I, a Notary Public of the County and State aforesaid, certify that Dan B. Andrews personally
came before me this day who being by me duly sworn, deposes and says: that he is the Chairman
of the Harnett County Board of Commissioners and Kay Blanchard is the Clerk of said Board, that
the seal affixed to the foregoing instrument is the official seal of Harnett County, that said instrument
was signed by him, attested by said Clerk and the County's seal affixed thereto, all by authority of
the Board of Commissioners of said County, and the said Dan B. Andrews acknowledged said
instrument to be the act and deed of Harnett County.
Witness my hand and official stamp or seal, this A) ay of February, 2000.
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