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H204 • 2025

Restore Down-Zoning Auth./Cabarrus Co.

Restore Down-Zoning Auth./Cabarrus Co.

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Sponsor
Almond, Echevarria, Campbell, Adams, Belk, Carney, Harrison, Hawkins, Price
Last action
2025-02-26
Official status
Ref to the Com on Judiciary 3, if favorable, Housing and Development, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
Effective date
Not listed

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Restore Down-Zoning Auth./Cabarrus Co.

Restore Down-Zoning Auth./Cabarrus Co.

What This Bill Does

  • Restore Down-Zoning Auth./Cabarrus Co.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-02-26 House

    Ref to the Com on Judiciary 3, if favorable, Housing and Development, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

  2. 2025-02-26 House

    Passed 1st Reading

  3. 2025-02-25 House

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Restore Down-Zoning Auth./Cabarrus Co.

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 1
HOUSE BILL 204

Short Title: Restore Down-Zoning Auth./Cabarrus Co. (Local)
Sponsors: Representatives Almond, Echevarria, and Campbell (Primary Sponsors).
For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
Referred to: Judiciary 3, if favorable, Housing and Development, if favorable, Rules, Calendar,
and Operations of the House
February 26, 2025
*H204-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO RESTORE THE AUTHORITY TO INITIATE DOWN-ZONING IN CABARRUS 2
COUNTY AND ITS MUNICIPALITIES. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. G.S. 160D-601(d), as amended by Section 3K.1(a) of S.L. 2024 -57, 5
reads as rewritten: 6
"(d) Down-Zoning. – No amendment to zoning regulations or a zoning map that 7
down-zones property shall be initiated, enacted, or enforced initiated nor is it enforceable without 8
the written consent of all property owners whose property is the sub ject of the down -zoning 9
amendment. amendment, unless the down -zoning amendment is initiated by the local 10
government. For purposes of this section, "down-zoning" means a zoning ordinance that affects 11
an area of land in one of the following ways: 12
(1) By decreasing the development density of the land to be less dense than was 13
allowed under its previous usage. 14
(2) By reducing the permitted uses of the land that are specified in a zoning 15
ordinance or land development regulation to fewer uses than were allowed 16
under its previous usage. 17
(3) By creating any type of nonconformity on land not in a residential zoning 18
district, including a nonconforming use, nonconforming lot, nonconforming 19
structure, nonconforming improvement, or nonconforming site element." 20
SECTION 2.(a) This act applies only to Cabarrus County and municipalities located 21
in Cabarrus County. 22
SECTION 2.(b) This act is effective when it becomes law and applies retroactively 23
to December 11, 2024. Any adopted ordinance affected by Section 3K.1 of S.L. 2024 -57 shall 24
be in effect as it was on or before December 11, 2024. 25