286  Dunn City Council Combined with Dunn Planning Board Special Meeting Monday, March 6,2023 6:00 p.m., Dunn Community Building  Minutes  PRESENT: Mayor William P. Elmore Jr., Mayor Pro Tem Dr. David L. Bradham, Council Members J. Wesley Sills, April Gaulden, Frank McLean, and Billyl N.7 Tart. Absent: Council Member Chuck Turnage. Planning: Chairman Claudell Brown, Gary Beasley, Andrew Currin, Douglas Godwin, Jr., Lynn Godwin, Also present: City Manager. Steven Neuschafer, Assistant City Manager Mathew Boone, Planning Director George Adler, Administrative Support. Specialist II Debra Creighton, City Attorney Tilghman Pope, City Clerk Tammy Williams as well ast the Administrative. Stafff from the Planning Department Melissal Mattic and Carmen Barnes. Mayor Elmore opened the meeting at 6:30 p.m., gave the invocation and afterwards led in the Pledge of JOINTI DISCUSSION, AND CONSENSUS ONT THE UNIFIEDI DEVELOPMENT CODE (UDO) City Manager Neuschafer reported this is basically an update to the planning and zoning ordinance, subdivision ordinance and flood plani regulation ordinance, which will combine into the UDO. We have been working ont this witha ac consultant fora ai few months and arel now att thej place tor move forward. Planning Director Adler reported that everyone was sent the draft UDO re-written by Stewart and revised many times. This form is better organized and user friendly. It is divided into three categories: administration, design and regulation. Thisi isa reference document fort the users. Ite explains what you! have to do in Dunn and how it can be done and any limits. The UDO encourages growth and limits unnecessary barriers to development, without taking out needed regulations. The UDO only removes things that are not needed and shifts some responsibility to staff. He then reviewed various elements of the UDO. Adler expressed concerns with apartments downstairs with access to downtown: streets due toa door opening and He reviewed articles that are not currently covered in the current ordinance related to lighting, bicycle parking, etc. Neuschafer asked that flexibility inj parking requirements are needed, so you don't have all the empty parking lots like the Walmart. He shared that a lot of larger communities are going to maximum parking spaces and he feels this flexibility needs to be built into the ordinance. After discussion, it was Concerns were expressed onl houses with multiple apartments that are allowed according tot the code. It was clarified that there willl have tob bea a special use permit to allowt these uses. Air B&B language is noti included but probably does need tob bei included. It was noti included due to therel beinga a case in court at the time this was! being drafted. Questions were: alsol brought upo concerning the Appeal of Major Subdivision Decisions. Neuschafer added that this document is not going to be perfect and will still need changes (code amendments), just like our current ordinance, buti it will be much more beneficial to the user. He added that Council Member Sills shared that hel had spoken to developers and they seem tol like it. Boone added that it should cut down on al lot of phone calls since it willl bes so much more user friendly. Lynn Godwin felt that it should ber reviewed againi ina a few months to discuss any issues with the UDO. Mayor Pro Tem Bradham felt therev willl be complaints once thej plan isi inp placei ift therea arei issues that we need to address. With noi further businesst to discuss, motion by Council Member Sills and: second by Mayor Pro Tem Bradham  and Valeriel Newton. Absent: Blaine Everhart.  CALLTOORDER. ANDI INVOCATION  Allegiance.  lookingi intos someone's homei inal business district.  consensus toa addi flexibility int this area.  witha allt the vetting! he feels that thel boards canf feel comfortable moving forward.  toa adjourn ther meeting: at8 8:04 p.m. Motion unanimously: approved.  CORPORATE SEAL CAR  Mayor  Attest:  AKEAY  Cnuhy pa Tammy Williams, CMC, NCCMC  City Clerk