STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA   )

)                       ORDINANCE NO. 04-12-08

COUNTY OF NEWBERRY   )

 

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 154 OF THE NEWBERRY COUNTY CODE OF ORDINANCES, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE NEWBERRY COUNTY SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS, SO AS TO SIMPLIFY THE METHOD OF APPROVING SURETY BONDS SUBMITTED IN LIEU OF COMPLETION OF SUBDIVISION IMPROVEMENTS, INCLUDING AMENDMENTS TO SECTIONS 154.024(b)(4), 154.063(a) AND (e) AND THE ADDITION OF SECTION 154.063(I),  AND OTHER MATTERS RELATED THERETO. 

 

WHEREAS, Newberry County Council, as the governing body of Newberry County, has the statutory authority to adopt Ordinances governing the subdivision  of property, and with the input of the Newberry County Joint Planning Commission, to make amendments to the text of the Subdivision Regulations, found in Chapter 154 of the Newberry County Code of Ordinances, which will apply in the unincorporated areas of the County, and inside those municipalities in the County which have entered into an Agreement with the County to allow the County’s Subdivision Regulations to regulate issues relating to subdivision of property within that municipality; and

WHEREAS, Newberry County Council, as authorized by  Section 4-9-30 of the S.C. Code of Laws, 1976, as amended, and by  Section 6-29-340, has received and considered a recommendation from the Newberry County Joint Planning Commission relating to the approval of the time for completion of subdivision improvements by the Planning Commission and relating to simplifying the method by which surety bonds, submitted in lieu of completion of roads and other subdivision improvements, could be submitted, considered and approved or disapproved. The recommendations are in the form of a report dated February 19, 2008, a copy of which is attached; and

 

 

WHEREAS, AFTER DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS ORDAINED THAT:

             XXXX___1.   The report and recommendation dated February 19, 2008 from the Newberry County Joint Planning Commission is ACCEPTED in full, and adopted as fully as if set forth herein verbatim.

            ________2.            The report and recommendation dated February 19, 2008 from the Newberry County Joint Planning Commission is REJECTED.

            ________3.   The report and recommendation dated February 19, 2008 from the Newberry County Joint Planning Commission is ACCEPTED AS MODIFIED hereafter, in full, and with such modifications is adopted as fully as if set forth herein verbatim:________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________.

           

 

AND IT IS SO ORDAINED by Newberry County Council this 16th day of July, 2008 in meeting duly assembled at Newberry, South Carolina.

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                                                                        NEWBERRY COUNTY COUNCIL

 

(SEAL)                                                             By:__________________________

      Henry B. Summer, Chairman

Attest:___________________________

            Laurie N. Renwick, Clerk to Council

 

1st reading:            April 16, 2008                            Reviewed and approved as to form:

Public Hearing: May 7, 2008                            _____________________________

2nd reading:            May 7, 2008                            A.J. Tothacer, Jr., County Attorney

3rd reading:            July 16, 2008                            _____________________________

Wayne Adams, County Administrator