TO: Mayor and Members of City Council
THRU: Jodi Phelps - Assistant City Manager
Dr. Gerald A. Newton, AICP - Director of Development Services
FROM: Zoning Commission
Planning & Zoning Division
DATE: April 27, 2026
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Receive the Zoning Commission Annual Report 2025
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Relationship To Strategic Plan:
* Goal II: Responsive City Government Supporting a Diverse & Viable Economy
* Goal III: City Investment in Today & Tomorrow
* Goal IV: Desirable Place to Live, Work, and Recreate
* Goal VI: Collaborative Citizen & Business Engagement Base
Executive Summary:
This annual report for 2025 provides highlights of the Zoning Commission work for the past year and their standard operating procedures.
Background:
The City of Fayetteville Zoning Commission has a dual mandate as a quasi-judicial and legislative body. Legislatively, they make recommendations to City Council on rezoning and conditional rezoning cases. Quasi-judicially, pursuant to NCGS ? 160D-705, the Zoning Commission is empowered in hearing and deciding on variance requests. In their position, the board is charged with upholding consistency with the Future Land Use Map and Comprehensive Plan as reasonableness to the local context. To act legislatively, the Zoning Commission requires a quorum of three-fifths and to act quasi-judicially, they require a four-fifths quorum.
The Zoning Commission is also responsible for appeals related to decisions made on sign, clear-cutting, and temporary use permits as well as administrative adjustments, certificates of occupancy, and City Manager interpretations.
The Zoning Commission in its current iteration formed in December of 2015 when Ord. No. S2015-018 merged them with the Board of Adjustments.
The Zoning Commission is comprised of five (5) regular members and two (2) alternate members appointed by City Council for two-year, staggered terms. Regular meetings are held on ...
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