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Ruling Allows Town to Extend Jurisdiction
RALEIGH — N.C. law allows municipalities to extend their zoning regulations to cover neighboring unincorporated areas under certain circumstances. Under state law, cities and towns may do so without the consent of affected residents. The legality of one such extraterritorial jurisdiction extension was recently at issue before the state’s second highest court ruling that Alamance County acted improperly in attempting to stop the town of Green Level from extending its zoning to unincorporated areas.