NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 416

HOUSE BILL 855

 

AN ACT TO REQUIRE CERTAIN GOVERNMENTAL UNITS INCLUDING INDEPENDENT BOARDS, AGENCIES, COMMISSIONS AND AUTHORITIES IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY TO REFER ALL CAPITAL PROJECTS TO THE CHARLOTTE- MECKLENBURG PLANNING COMMISSION FOR REVIEW.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. No governmental unit in Mecklenburg County, including independent boards, agencies, commissions, authorities, special districts and local public institutions shall authorize or construct any capital project or acquire or sell any real property until the location and extent thereof has been submitted to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission for its review.  The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission shall have 30 days from the date of submission to review the project or action and to make whatever response, if any, to said project or action.  A longer period of review may be granted by the instrumentality making the submission.

Sec. 2. Capital project, as used in this act, shall include, but shall not be limited to streets, roads, major water and sewer extensions, parks, playgrounds, open spaces, urban renewal project areas, public transit, airports, public housing and all other government buildings and facilities such as hospitals, schools, health centers, libraries, community centers and fire stations.

Sec. 3. The provisions of this act shall not apply to the Towns of Pineville, Matthews, Davidson, Cornelius, Huntersville, and Mint Hill, or boards, agencies, commissions, authorities or institutions thereof.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of May, 1973.