(a) 
Adopted.
The 2043 comprehensive plan, including the future land use plan, thoroughfare plan, and all the maps and elements, attached hereto and incorporated herein as if set forth in full as exhibit A to Ordinance 750-23, is hereby adopted by the town council as a long-range planning guide for the town, and it shall supersede any previously existing comprehensive plan.
(b) 
Purpose.
The 2043 comprehensive plan is intended to constitute the comprehensive, or master plan of the town, for all matters related to long-range guidance relative to zoning decisions, land subdivision, thoroughfare construction, and growth management.
(c) 
Review; amendments.
The planning and zoning commission shall conduct a comprehensive review of this comprehensive plan every 10 years. The planning and zoning commission may review the comprehensive plan sooner should a need arise and make recommendations to the town council concerning any proposed amendments. The town council shall conduct a comprehensive review of the comprehensive plan every 10 years.
(d) 
Personal notice requirements.
In addition to required state and local notice requirements, the town shall cause personal notice of the date, time, and location of a hearing concerning amendments to the comprehensive land use plan to be sent by regular mail before the tenth (10th) day before the hearing date to:
(1) 
Each owner of real property located within three hundred (300) feet of the exterior boundary of the property in question;
(2) 
To any registered neighborhood organization representing the area in which the subject property is located; and
(3) 
The property owner.
The notice shall set forth the time, place and purpose of the hearing and identification of the subject property.
(1)
Notice shall be sent to each owner indicated on the most recently approved municipal tax roll for land inside the town limits, and, when required by state law, on the most recently approved county tax roll for land in the extraterritorial jurisdiction. For recently annexed land that is not included on the most recently approved municipal or county tax roll, notice may be given by publication.
(2)
Notice may be served by depositing the notice, properly addressed and first class postage prepaid, in the United States mail.
(Ordinance 318-03 adopted 3/4/03; 2004 Code, secs. 14.201–14.203; Ordinance 535-12 adopted 10/16/12; Ordinance 573-14 adopted 11/18/14; Ordinance 603-16 adopted 6/21/16; Ordinance 619-17 adopted 6/27/17; Ordinance 750-23 adopted 7/25/2023)
The comprehensive zoning ordinance, Ordinance 361-05, adopted by the town on March 22, 2005, as amended, is included at the end of this chapter as exhibit A. Due to the nature of the zoning ordinance and the technicalities involved in adopting or amending it, such ordinance is printed herein as enacted, with only nonsubstantive formatting and style changes. Capitalization, punctuation and numbering of articles, sections and subsections have been retained as enacted. Subsequent amendments will be inserted in their proper place and denoted by a history note following the amended section. Obviously misspelled words have been corrected without notation. Any other material added for purposes of clarification is enclosed in brackets.
(Ordinance 361-05 adopted 3/22/05; 2004 Code, art. 14.300; Ordinance adopting 2015 Code)