Cumberland County Commissioners Amend Zoning Ordinance to Allow Resubmission of Applications

Cumberland County Commissioners unanamously approved a revised zoning ordinance to allow for RESUBMISSION of rezoning applications.

The request is a staff-driven text amendment to the Cumberland County Zoning Ordinance to amend the standards to address how successive rezoning applications may be filled after that decision has been made by the Board of County Commissioners.

Currently the County Zoning Ordinance requires a one-year waiting period after public notice has been given for the resubmission of another rezoning application for the same, or any portion of a given parcel.

NEW language – “A development regulation or unified development ordinance may not include waiting periods prohibiting a landowner, developer, or applicant from refiling a denied or withdrawn application for a zoning map amendment, text amendment, development application, or request for development approval.”

The text amendment allows reapplications of rezoning petitions to be filed and would waive the former one-year waiting requirement.