Morrisville Administrative Manual_September 2023

Part 2. Application Review Procedures 2.4 Additional Application Procedures

Floodplain Development Permit

A Floodplain Development Permit is required before any development within a Floodplain Overlay (FO) District, including any alteration or relocation of watercourses. See Section 2.5.9 in the UDO for specific application procedures.

Something to Know Before a Certificate of Compliance/Occupancy is issued for development subject to a Floodplain Development Permit, the applicant must submit a final “as - built” elevation certificate.

Food Truck Permit

All food trucks are required to obtain a food truck permit prior to operating in the Town of Morrisville. See Section 4.4.5.B.2 in the UDO for specific application procedures.

Something to Know A Food Truck Permit must be kept in the food truck at all times.

Grave Removal

General

• State law (N.C.G.S. 65-106) grants the Town Council authority to approve the disinterment, removal, or reinternment of graves by any owner of property in Morrisville that contains an abandoned cemetery. (N.C.G.S. 65-106 provides separate procedures for the disinterment, removal, or reinternment of graves by a government agency with County Commissioners approval, of graves on land owned by electric or lighting companies and proposed as a reservoir site, and of graves in church cemeteries by church authorities.) Grave Removal Approval Procedure • The property owner provides 30 days written notice of the application and hearing on it to the next of kin of the persons buried in the graves (if known or reasonably knowable), • Notice of the public hearing is published for four successive weeks in a local newspaper, with the first publication not less than 30 days before the proposed disinterment, removal, or reinternment of the graves. • The property owner submits an application for Grave Removal to Planning staff for completeness review.

Grave Removal Procedure

• The Town Council holds a public hearing to hear comments from interested parties, discusses the application and comments, and decides whether to approve the application. • If the Town Council approves the application, the property owner may conduct the approved disinterment, removal, or reinternment of graves under the supervision of the Wake County Department of Environmental Services (if the graves are located in Wake County) or the Durham County Environmental Health Division (if the graves are located in Durham County). • Within 30 days after completing the removal and reinternment, the person conducting the removal and reinternment must record a written certificate of removal facts with the office of the Register of Deeds for the county from which the remains were removed and the county in which they were reinterred.

Application Submittal

Initial Staff Review and Comments

Application Revisions

Follow-Up Staff Review

Town Council Review and Decision with standard public hearing

• The certificate must include the full name (if known) of each person whose grave was moved, a precise description of the site from which and to which the remains were moved, the name of the party effecting the removal, and a brief description of the

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