Post date: Jan 31, 2011 6:10:04 PM
Background
The City of Raleigh is currently undertaking a process to develop a New Development Code, which will take the form of a Unified Development Ordinance (UDO). You can find much more information about the UDO project
Approximately 4 years ago, the City of Raleigh launched a major initiative to update the City’s comprehensive plan and development regulations. During the fall of 2009, the City Council approved the 2030 Comprehensive Plan, a document that provides a vision and policies for future growth and development in Raleigh. Work then began on the updating of the City’s new development regulations, the actual laws that will guide future development. This document has been labeled the Unified Development Ordinance.
The schedule below shows the schedule to adopt the UDO
I encourage you to watch the video of the evening session of the May 4, 2010 City Council meeting. This is the meeting when the City Council approved the direction for the drafting of the new development regulations.
Discussion Starters
When the UDO Advisory Group was reviewing the Diagnostic & Approach Report, a document used to analyze the existing development regulations and create a framework for the drafting of the new regulations, it prepared a list of Hot Topics.
Code Studio continues to emphasize that…
Examples of areas within the Mordecai CAC
Each CAC needs to choose one or more examples of areas within your CAC for the UDO simulation exercise.
The Planning Department plans to send out teams to conduct these simulations at the MARCH CAC meeting. Each simulation exercise will take about one hour and will be handled by Planning Department staff.
Please think about your CAC area and select one or more examples