Volunteers Needed to Help Write Articles on NCGS 160D

Toby Coleman

Ashley Anderson

By Toby Coleman and Ashley Anderson

To celebrate and prepare for Chapter 160D taking effect next year, the ZPLU section plans to publish a series of articles on 160D written by ZPLU members—and we need your help!

ZPLU members were instrumental in the drafting and passage of 160D, which will consolidate the enabling statutes for development regulations currently scattered between Chapters 153 and 160A into a single, unified chapter.

Now we need your help in outlining how 160D will operate when it takes effect in January. The plan is to have each article focus on a piece of the law. We are looking for volunteer authors to write articles on portions of 160D.

We need volunteer authors to write about the following portions of the law:

  • Articles 1, 2, and 3 (General Provisions, Jurisdiction, Boards/Organization Arrangements)
  • Article 4 (Administration, Enforcement and Appeals): TAKEN (Thanks, Catherine Hoffman!)
  • Articles 5 and 6 (Planning and Process for Adoption of Development Regulations)
  • Article 7 (Zoning Regulation)
  • Articles 8, 9 and 10 (Subdivision Regulations, Regulation of Particular Uses and Areas, and Development Agreements) 
  • Potential Separate Article on Vested Rights/Permit Choice aspects of Articles 8, 9, and 10
  • Articles 11 and 12 (Building Code Enforcement and Minimum Housing Codes
  • Articles 13 and 14 (Additional Authority and Judicial Review) 

We encourage folks to team up as they’d like.  This seems like a great opportunity to co-author something so you can get all of the glory while only doing part of the work.

Now for the important details:

  • Articles will be due April 30. Although we plan on publishing the articles on a rolling basis over the coming months, your colleagues on the communications committee will need time to work with the authors to review and edit articles.  A single deadline will help us avoid spending the rest of 2020 chasing down articles.
  • No length limits, but keep it concise (for you and the reader).  Because we now publish digitally only, and we do not have hard word limits on these articles, so take the time and space you need. That said, readers always appreciate concision. Where possible, try to keep it under 1,250 words (about double the average length of an article in a major newspaper).

To volunteer or to ask questions, email Toby Coleman or Ashley Anderson.

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