North Carolina HB 369: Restore Master's Pay for Teachers and Instructional Support Personnel.

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 5
HOUSE BILL 369
Committee Substitute Favorable 5/6/25
Committee Substitute #2 Favorable 6/10/25
Senate State and Local Government Committee Substitute Adopted 5/19/26
Senate Agriculture, Energy, and Environment Committee Substitute Adopted 6/10/26

Short Title: Parking Lot Reform/Stormwater Control. (Public)
Sponsors:
Referred to:
March 12, 2025
*H369-v-5*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO RESTRICT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FROM REGULATING CERTAIN 2
ASPECTS OF OFF-STREET PARKING SPACES AND TO MODIFY THE AUTHORITY 3
OF CERTAIN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO REQUIRE STORMWATER CONTROL 4
FOR REDEVELOPED PROPERTY. 5
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 6
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PART I. PROHIBITING CERTAIN ZONING AND DEVELOPMENT LIMITATIONS 8
RELATED TO OFF-STREET PARKING 9
SECTION 1.(a) G.S. 160D-702 reads as rewritten: 10
"§ 160D-702. Grant of power. 11
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(c) A zoning or other development regulation shall not do any of the following: 13
(1) Set a minimum square footage of any structures subject to regulation under 14
the North Carolina Residential Code. 15
(2) Require a an off-street parking space to be larger than 9 feet wide by 20 feet 16
long unless the parking space is designated for handicap, parallel, or diagonal 17
parking. 18
(2a) Require an off-street parking lot to meet a minimum number of parking spaces 19
per development or structure, regardless of occupancy or use. The limitations 20
of this subdivision shall not, however, apply to any of the following: 21
a. Properties located within the boundaries of a National Register 22
Historic District or a local historic district; and shall not apply to 23
properties that are either (i) individually listed in the National Register 24
of Historic Places or (ii) individually designated as a local historic 25
landmark. 26
b. Properties located within a district on the Study List for the National 27
Register of Historic Places as maintained by the North Carolina State 28
Historic Preservation Office or a national or State historic landmark. 29
c. Local governments located in the coastal area, as those terms are 30
defined under G.S. 113A-103. 31
(3) Require additional fire apparatus access roads into developments of one- or 32
two-family dwellings that are not in compliance with the required number of 33

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fire apparatus access roads into developments of one- or two-family dwellings 1
set forth in the Fire Code of the North Carolina Residential Code for One- and 2
Two-Family Dwellings. 3
(4) Establish or require pavement design standards for public roads or private 4
roads that are more stringent than the minimum pavement design standards 5
adopted by the Department of Transportation. 6
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SECTION 1.(b) There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of 8
Commerce the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2026-2027 9
fiscal year to assist in educating property owners on the financial opportunities that relate to 10
adjusting the number of parking spaces within their parking lots to better align with actual, and 11
anticipated, usage and thereby saving possible unneeded expenditures. 12
SECTION 1.(c) This section becomes effective July 1, 2026. 13
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PART II. MODIFY THE AUTHORITY OF CERTAIN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO 15
REQUIRE STORMWATER CONTROL FOR REDEVELOPED PROPERTY 16
SECTION 2.(a) G.S. 143-214.7 reads as rewritten: 17
"§ 143-214.7. Stormwater runoff rules and programs. 18
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(a1) Definitions. – The following definitions apply in this section: 20
(1) Built-upon area. – As defined in G.S. 143-214.7D. 21
(2) Development. – Any land-disturbing activity that increases the amount of 22
built-upon area or that otherwise decreases the infiltration of precipitation into 23
the subsoil. When additional development occurs at a site that has existing 24
development, the built-upon area of the existing development shall not be 25
included in the density calculations for additional stormwater control 26
requirements, and stormwater control requirements cannot be applied 27
retroactively to existing development, unless otherwise required by federal 28
law. 29
(2)(3) Redevelopment. – Any land-disturbing activity that does not result in a net 30
increase in built-upon area and that provides greater or equal stormwater 31
control to that of the previous development. 32
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(b3) Stormwater runoff rules and programs shall not require private property owners to 34
install new or increased stormwater controls for (i) preexisting development existing built-upon 35
area, or (ii) redevelopment activities that do not remove or decrease existing stormwater controls. 36
When a preexisting development is redeveloped, either in whole or in part, increased stormwater 37
controls shall only be required for the amount of impervious surface being created that exceeds 38
the amount of impervious surface that existed before the redev