Town Ordinances

The purpose and intent of this Ordinance is to encourage and guide the growth and development of the Town and the area within its planning jurisdiction, in accordance with the goals and objectives of the Comprehensive Plan for the Town of Dillsboro, and in doing this to:
1) Secure adequate air, light, and convenience of access;
2) Provide safety from fire, flood, and other danger, which may include providing open spaces for public purposes;
3) Reduce or avoid congestion, and provide for the safe and efficient movement of vehicles and pedestrians along public ways;
4) Promote public health, safety, comfort, morals, convenience, and general welfare;
5) Plan for and promote orderly growth and development within the Town and the Town’s planning jurisdiction; including by means of:
a) Regulating both the use and the intensity of use of land for commercial, community, industrial, residential, and other purposes and activities;
b) Regulating the area, height, location, and size of buildings and structures;
c) Encouraging that various uses of land shall be situated in appropriate locations and with appropriate relationships;
d) Providing appropriate and sustainable opportunities for growth and development, including giving priority to development that is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan; and
e) Regulating the density and distribution of population.
6) Encourage that the Town grows with adequate education, health, recreation, utility, and other public and community facilities;
7) Recognize and balance the needs of business, industry, and residential uses as part of future growth and development;
8) Provide adequate, healthful surroundings for families in residential areas;
9) Protect and preserve the community’s small‐town, rural character;
10) Encourage strategic, quality, compatible new development and investment near the Town, while generally supporting farmland preservation and protection for agricultural activities, discouraging development that fragments agricultural areas, and limiting nuisance issues between agricultural activities and new growth and development;
11) Promote an improved community appearance;
12) Promote the efficient and economical use of public funds by proactive planning;
13) Provide consistent subdivision control standards and policies;
14) Promote the provision of compatible land uses, while conserving property values throughout the planning jurisdiction; and
15) Provide for the enforcement of this Ordinance, including recourse for violations and other noncompliance with these provisions.