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Albert Coates is the founder of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and he remains active in the program.
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17672
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The question of where the line is drawn between the functions of a city council and the zoning board of adjustment in administering a zoning ordinance is a puzzle. Green discusses zoning procedures and amendments.
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17925
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The North Carolina 1957 General Assembly had a banner year regarding city planning legislation. Foremost among its achievements in this field were acts to make the state's urban redevelopment legislation workable, to authorize the state to embark upon a local planning assistance program, to enact flood zoning ordinances, and clarify building laws.
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17452
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North Carolina cities as a group stand above the average of comparable cities over the country in almost every aspect of city planning activity.
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17556
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Fourteen counties took the initiative to form city-county planning commissions regulate growth and development. County planning was considered so important to regulate legislation, revenue, and taxes between urban, suburban, and rural areas of each county. The previous two session of the General Assembly granted more of these powers to county officials whom tried to work with local civic groups for the betterment of state counties.
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17653
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Two recent decisions by the North Carolina Supreme Court have focused attention on a growing problem faced by municipal administration: the proper location of water storage tanks. Quite commonly, good engineering practice dictates the location of such facilities. But legal, financial, social, or political problems related to this location may force the city to choose another spot.
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17900
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North Carolina's first General Assembly to hold a special session since 1938 convened to receive bills and resolutions pertaining to issues raised by the school segregation decisions of the United States Supreme Court. The major part of the legislation enacted consisted of the Pearsall Plan that attempted to undermine desegregation through compulsory plans.
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17512
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After recognition of the problem in 1893, numerous amendments, and studies, and a troubled beginning with the 1949 General Assembly, the Stream Pollution Bill finally passed in the House in 1951, reshaped to meet previous objections.
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17666
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Under the North Carolina General Statutes, the state's zoning enabling act authorizes cities to divide their municipality into districts; however there are provisos for the construction of intersections.
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18181
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As the full implications of the environmental crisis become known and as the public recognizes that land, along with water and air, is a limited resource, an exercise has begun in allocating or reallocating the function of land-use planning and regulation among different governmental units--state, regional, and local.
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17818
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Green discusses the issue of subdivision regulation in North Carolina, with attention to the affect of new national legislation on state laws.
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17946
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By action of the 1957 General Assembly the state of North Carolina has embarked upon a new role of furnishing, in conjunction with the federal government, technical planning assistance to local governmental units.
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17527
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Firemen and others seeking an answer to the rural fire protection problem were given a new tool by the 1951 General Assembly. Rural fire protection districts may now be created in any county of North Carolina.
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17663
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With the exception of new efforts to solve the rural fire protection problem and a wave of bills granting exemptions from jury duty to volunteer firemen, the 1953 North Carolina General Assembly made few changes in the existing pattern of fire protection legislation.
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17526
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North Carolina's city planning agencies, which have sometimes felt handicapped by lack of sufficient legal authority, received new tools of major importance from the 1951 General Assembly. Foremost among these was the Urban Redevelopment Law, while significant measures relating to streets, parking, recreation, and zoning were also enacted.
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