Land Use Plan – 2002 - Stanly County, North Carolina

STANLY COUNTY
planning process. While generally both plans are compatible, this revision will help assure
the implementation of both plans.
Complete a natural resources inventory for Stanly County. The Land Trust of Central
North Carolina is currently encouraging each of the counties within its jurisdictions to
complete a natural resources inventory. Local matching funds for the $20,000 inventory
have not been secured in Stanly County. The two-year process is essential to identifying
areas of local, regional, state, and national Botanical Significance so that the protection of
these areas can be prioritized on the local, state, and national level.
Continue coordinated plan dialog between Stanly County and its cities. Planning &
Zoning Department staff along with the planning consultant have coordinated with each of
the eight cities within Stanly County in the course of preparing the Land Use Plan. We firmly
recommend that this dialog continue as the plan moves from adoption to implementation.
We also see the Land Use Plan process as a springboard for countywide planning initiatives
on other important issues and matters, such as, for example, long-range utility planning.
Continue cooperation among government agencies that impact long-range planning
and development. The Stanly County government has within its powers and authority the
power to affect many of the changes recommended in the Land Use Plan. That power
includes control over zoning for the study area as well as distributing drinking water to a
number of communities in the county. Other entities, however, will need to be engaged to
ensure wholesale adoption of the plan. Among these agencies include the North Carolina
DOT, the city of Albemarle through its water treatment and distribution system, as well as
adjacent city and counties governments.
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