1957_session laws_960_2
CHAPTER 959 AN ACT TO EXTEND THE PLANNING AND ZONING POWERS OF THE TOWN OF SPENCER AND ITS GOVERNING BODY TO THE TERRITORY BEYOND AND SURROUNDING THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF SPENCER FOR A DISTANCE OF ONE MILE IN ALL DIRECTIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That for the purpose of promoting the orderly growth, expansion, and development of the Town of Spencer and the surrounding territory hereinafter defined, and for the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of the citizens of the Town of Spencer and of the territory and community beyond and surrounding the corporate limits of the said municipality, as hereinafter defined, the governing body of the Town of Spencer is hereby authorized and empowered, after first submitting the same to the zoning commission of said town for recommendation, to adopt such ordinances and regulations as may be considered necessary or expedient by the governing body of the Town of Spencer to regulate, control, and restrict the height, number of stories and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of a lot that may be occupied, the size of yards, courts and other open spaces, the density of population, and the location and use of buildings, structures and land for trade, industry, residence or other purposes, when specifically provided by the terms of any such ordinance, within the territory and community beyond and surrounding the corporate boundaries of the Town of Spencer, as now or hereafter fixed, for a distance of one mile of and beyond such corporate boundaries in all directions; and within the aforesaid territory, the governing body of the Town of Spencer is hereby authorized and empowered to 898 exercise any and all powers of planning and zoning conferred upon the Town of Spencer and vested in its governing body by the Charter of the Town of Spencer, or by the General Statutes of North Carolina, as amended from time to time, including the provisions of Article 14 of subchapter 1 of Chapter 160 of the General Statutes, or by any other statute applicable to the Town of Spencer, to the same extent and according to the same methods of procedure as applicable to planning or zoning, or both, within the corporate limits of the Town of Spencer. Provided, that the jurisdiction and authority herein granted to the governing body of the Town of Spencer shall not be exercised. within the corporate limits of the contiguous City of Salisbury and Town of East Spencer, nor within any part of that territory adjacent to the corporate limits of the City of Salisbury lying southwest of the prolongation of the existing corporate limits of said city North twenty-three degrees, twenty-nine minutes, and forty-two seconds West from a point in the center line of Seventeenth Street, between Spencer and Hudson Avenues.