COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
Adopted March 8, 2016
Review Draft
Comprehensive Long Range Plan, March 8, 2016
CURRENT UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (UDO)
Adopted Documents
Southern Pines UDO (updated and effective January 10, 2023 to present)
Southern Pines UDO Appendices, updated Jan. 6, 2021
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PRIOR UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (UDO)
Prior Documents
Southern Pines UDO, April 13, 2022 (effective April 13, 2022 to November 14, 2022)
Southern Pines UDO, July 1, 2021 (effective July 1, 2021 to April 12, 2022)
Southern Pines UDO, January 6, 2021 (effective January 6, 2021 through June 30, 2021)
Southern Pines UDO, August 24, 2020 (effective August 24, 2020 through January 5, 2021)
Southern Pines UDO, December 10, 2019 (effective December 10, 2019 through August 23, 2020)
PLANNING LIBRARY
Want to know more about planning issues?
When Investors Own Neighborhoods
This article provides a variety of alternatives (regulatory, political and financial) to protect at-risk neighborhoods.
Form-Based Zoning
This provides a quick reference to design-oriented development regulations, highlighting conventional and form-based formats.
The History of Form-Based Codes
The History of Form-Based Codes (FBCs) defines FBC, compares FBCs to conventional development regulations and offers examples of how FBCs are used.
Planning Communities for the 21st Century
Planning Communities for the 21st Century is a report from the American Planning Association that describes the legal framework for planning across the country and efforts to modernize state planning statutes.
Protecting Water Resources with Higher Density Development
Protecting Water Resources with Higher Density Development is a report by the EPA that describes ways communities may grow without endangering their water resources.
The Link between Growth Management and Housing Affordability
The Link between Growth Management and Housing Affordability is an academic paper that describes how growth management techniques affect the availability of housing.
Getting To Smart Growth
Getting to Smart Growth describes the 10 main principles of Smart Growth and describes how communities can integrate these principles into their development.
Smart Growth: Building Better Places to Live, Work, and Play
Smart Growth: Building Better Places to Live, Work, and Play describes the housing issues faced by growing communities.
Smart Choices
Smart Choices provides an overview of smart growth issues and provides illustrations from across the country.
Smart Growth: Myth and Fact
Smart Growth: Myth and Fact discusses some common misconceptions about smart growth principles and provides a good overview of smart growth issues.
Growing Pains
Growing Pains describes the challenges that rapid growth can present to local and state governments and ways that those challenges may be addressed.