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Ordinances

Pending Ordinances are updated quarterly (see Agendas for copies of pending Ordinances)

2025-06 Ordinance to Amend Chapter 4, Section 4-59 of the City Code of Ordinances:  Chapter 4 Buildings and Building Regulations Sec. 4-59 Limitations on Issuance
(a) No building permit shall be issued for any building or structure the estimated total cost of which is more than thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) forty thousand dollars ($40,000), unless the work is to be performed by a licensed general contractor. Passed at the June 3, 2025 BOC Meeting. /sites/default/files/uploads/2025-09-city-code-of-ordinance-amend-chapter-4-sec-4-59.pdf 

2025-03 Ordinance to Amend Chapter 9, Article 1: Nuisances; Sec. 9.9 of the City Code of Ordinances to include remedies for enforcement of violations of the Public Nuisance Ordinance. Approved by the Board of Commissioners on May 6, 2025 and is now in effect. https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:242fcff5-7a0c-4eea-81ab-328efea4d9a7 

       Unified Development Ordinances (a/k/a UDO - ordinances relating to planning and property development - includes tree preservation ordinance) 

2025-02 Ordinance to Amend Article 9 Section 9.2 Plot Plan Procedures was approved by the Board of Commissioner's on February 4, 2025 and is now in effect.  https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:va6c2:c13025a8-2cbc-48ad-baa5-0aff9b0da522  

2024-13 Ordinance to Amend Chapter 9-Nuisances, Section 9.4-Appeal, Add Section 9.8-Chronic Violators and Amend Section 9.31-Definitions of the City's Code of Ordinances