SB 932 — Winston-Salem/Forsyth Co. Planning and Zoning.

FILED SENATE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA AprSESSION 29,2025 2026S S.B.1 SENATE BILL 932 Short Title:

932 SESSION 2025 PRINCIPAL CLERK S D SENATE BILL DRS35395-NT-9 Short Title:

Rules and Operations of the Senate April 30, 2026 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF WINSTON-SALEM TO DELEGATE REZONING AUTHORITY TO THE JOINT CITY-COUNTY PLANNING BOARD SUBJECT TO APPEAL AND FINAL REVIEW RETAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL.

The city City and the countycountyCountymaybyordinance Countyjointlyor may by ordinance jointly or separately confer upon the joint City and County Planning Board the authority and the duty of recommending revisions of existing zoning ordinances or preparing new zoning ordinances or resolutions for the city City or county County, or any portion thereof, in accordance with the present zoning ordinance of the City of Winston-Salem and any amendments thereto and in accordance with the authority for county zoning as herein authorized.

The City Council shall establish rules, regulations, and guidelines under which this authority shall be exercised by the joint City and County Planning Board, and the CityCityCouncil Council shall provide appropriate rights of appeal and final review.

For the purpose of increasing the availability of housing for persons of low or moderate income, and thereby promoting the public safety and welfare, the CityCitymay may by ordinance provide a density bonus or other incentives of equivalent financial value to a developer of housing if that developer agrees to construct multifamily residential units or single family residential units for rent or sale to persons of low or moderate income, or to donate land to the City or the City of Winston-Salem Housing Authority to be used for the purpose of the development of housing for persons of low or moderate income, in the manner, and in accordance with the standards, requirements, and regulations specified therein.

For the purposes of this paragraph, 'density bonus' means a densitydensityincrease increase over the otherwise maximum allowable residential densitydensityunder under the applicable zoning classification.

*DRS35395-NT-9**S932-v-1* General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025 For any or all these purposes, the City may divide its territorial jurisdiction into districts of any number, shape, and area that may be deemed best suited to carry out the purposes of this section;

IfthepetitionisforspecialusedistrictIfthepetitionisforspecialusedistrictzoning, zoning, the Board of Aldermen City Council is to approve or disapprove the petition on the basis of the specificuse requested.

The conditions contained in a special use permit issued by the Board of Aldermen City Council maymayinclude: include:

For the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals and the general welfare of the City of Winston-Salem and its inhabitants, and in order to give full effect to the zoning ordinance of the City of Winston-Salem, as amended from time to time, said zoning ordinance, together with the zone map, and any amendments thereto hereafter adopted, shall operate and have effect within three miles of the corporate limits of the CityCityof of Winston-Salem, as now or hereafter established.

The Board of Aldermen City Council of the City of Winston-Salem may adopt ordinances from time to time zoning and rezoning all or so much of said three mile area as, within the judgment Page 2 DRS35395-NT-9Senate Bill 932-First Edition General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025 of the board, should be brought under the operation and effect of the city zoning ordinance.

Wherever in this Act the City Planning Board or the Board of Aldermen City Council of the City of Winston-Salem or the Board of Adjustment of the City of Winston-Salem are given authorityauthorityin in theterritoryoutsideofthecorporatelimits oftheCityofWinston-Salem,theexerciseoftheCityofWinston-Salem, theexercise of such authority beyond one mile from the corporate limits of the City of Winston-Salem shall be subject to the approval of the Board of Commissioners of Forsyth County." SECTION2.

Section 41ofChapter 677of the1947SessionLawsreadsthe1947Session Lawsreads as rewritten:

The words "amend," "amendment," "amendments," or "amended," in this Act, shall be deemed to include any modification of the text or phraseology of any provision of any zoning resolution, or amendment thereof, or any repeal or elimination of any such provision, or part thereof, or anyanyaddition addition to the ordinance, or to an amendment thereof, and shall also be deemed to include any change in the number, shape, boundary or area of any district or districts, any repeal or abolition of any map forming part of or referred to, in any zoning resolution or anyanypart part of such map, any addition to such map, any new map or maps, or anyanyother other change in the map or any map.

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