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Unified Development Ordinance (UDO)
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The Unied Development Ordinance
(https://user-2081353526.cld.bz/UnifiedDevelopmentOrdinance)
, or UDO, contains most local regulations concerning the use and development of land and buildings, including
zoning, subdivision, stormwater, and natural resource conservation. The UDO was adopted in 2013 as text
change TC-3-13, and became fully eective throughout Raleigh’s city limits and planning jurisdiction in 2016
with the adoption of the UDO Remapping, which applied new UDO districts to approximately one-third of the
land area zoned by Raleigh (rezonings Z-27-14
(https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/Z-027-14.pdf)
and Z-27D-14
(https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/Z-027D-14.pdf)
).
The purpose and intent of the UDO is to preserve, protect and promote the public health, safety and general
welfare of residents and businesses in the City. More specically, the UDO seeks to achieve the following
objectives:
A. Implement the policies and goals contained within ocially adopted plans, including the Comprehensive
Plan;
B. Improve the built environment and human habitat;
C. Conserve and protect the City’s natural beauty and setting, including trees, scenic vistas, and cultural and
historic resources;
D. Ensure that new development conserves energy, land and natural resources;
E. Protect water quality within watershed critical areas, the general watershed areas of designated water supply
watersheds and other watershed districts;
F. Encourage environmentally responsible development practices;
G. Promote development patterns that support safe, eective and multi-modal transportation options,
including auto, pedestrian, bicycle and transit and therefore minimize vehicle trac by providing for a mixture
of land uses, walkability and compact community form;
H. Provide neighborhoods with a variety of housing types to serve the needs of a diverse population;
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I. Promote the greater health benets of a pedestrian-oriented environment;
J. Reinforce the character and quality of neighborhoods;
K. Remove barriers and provide incentives for walkable projects;
L. Protect and promote appropriately located commercial and industrial activities in order to preserve and
strengthen the City’s economic base;
M. Encourage compact development;
N. Ensure that adequate facilities are constructed to serve new development;
O. Provide for orderly growth and development of suitable neighborhoods with adequate transportation
networks, drainage and utilities, and appropriate building sites;
P. Save unnecessary expenditures of funds by requiring the proper initial construction of transportation
networks, sidewalks, drainage facilities, and utilities; and
Q. Provide land records for the convenience of the public and for better identication and permanent location of
real estate boundaries.
Supplement 2
(https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/UDOSupplement02.pdf)
Supplement 3
(https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/UDOSupplement03.pdf)
Supplement 4
(https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/UDOSupplement04.pdf)
Supplement 5
(https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/UDOSupplement05.pdf)
Supplement 6
(https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/UDOSupplement06.pdf)
A R C H I V E S U P P L E M E N T S
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Supplement 7
(https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/UDOSupplement07.pdf)
Supplement 8
(https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/UDOSupplement08.pdf)
Supplement 9
(https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/UDOSupplement09.pdf)
Supplement 10
(https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/UDOSupplement10.pdf)
Supplement 11
(https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/UDOSupplement11.pdf)
Supplement 12
(https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/UDOSupplement12.pdf)
Supplement 13
(https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/UDOSupplement13.pdf)
Supplement 14
(https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/UDOSupplement14.pdf)
Supplement 15
(https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/UDOSupplement15.pdf)
Supplement 16
(https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/UDOSupplement16.pdf)
Supplement 17
(https://cityofraleigh0drupal.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/drupal-prod/COR22/UDOSupplement17.pdf)
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