GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

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SENATE BILL 685
Local Government and Regional Affairs Committee Substitute Adopted 6/9/93

Short Title:  Annexation of Streets.	(Public)
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Referred to:  Finance.
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April 5, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE TREATMENT OF STREETS AND ROADS IN POPULATION DENSITY CALCULATIONS IN AN ANNEXATION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 160A-48(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c)	Part or all of the area to be annexed must be developed for urban purposes. An area developed for urban purposes is defined as any area which meets any one of the following standards:
(1)	Has a total resident population equal to at least two persons for each acre of land included within its boundaries; or
(2)	Has a total resident population equal to at least one person for each acre of land included within its boundaries, and is subdivided into lots and tracts such that at least sixty percent (60%) of the total acreage consists of lots and tracts five acres or less in size and such that at least sixty-five percent (65%) of the total number of lots and tracts are one acre or less in size; or
(3)	Is so developed that at least sixty percent (60%) of the total number of lots and tracts in the area at the time of annexation are used for residential, commercial, industrial, institutional or governmental purposes, and is subdivided into lots and tracts such that at least sixty percent (60%) of the total acreage, not counting the acreage used at the time of annexation for commercial, industrial, governmental or institutional purposes, consists of lots and tracts five acres or less in size.
For purposes of computing resident population density under subdivision (1)	or (2) of this subsection, the acreage within streets and roads shall be included in determining the number of acres of land included within the boundaries of the area to be annexed.  To this end, when an area is being annexed under this Part which includes streets or roads between developed lots, and the developed lots are also being annexed, the acreage within such streets or roads may not be excluded under subsection (d) of this section from any computation of resident population density under subdivision (1) or (2) of this subsection."
Sec. 2.  This act applies to any annexation ordinances adopted on or after October 1, 1993.