Franklin County, NC Historic Preservation: Historic-Cultural Monuments (2026)

UDC § 7.2.4.C.1 bars a subdivider or developer from destroying buildings, structures, archeological or cultural features that are listed, or eligible to be listed, on a national, state or county register or inventory of cultural or historic significance, unless the county has first prepared and accepted an inventory or survey of the resource. Section 7.2.4.C.2 routes the plan through the appropriate agency within the state Department of Cultural Resources and/or the Franklin County Historic Preservation Commission as part of subdivision review, and lets the County attach conditions of approval requiring protection of significant resources.

This protection is triggered specifically by the subdivision process described in Article 7, alongside the school-site reservation standard of § 7.2.4.B and the state and federal permitting cross-references in § 7.2.4.A; it is not a freestanding landmark-designation ordinance reaching properties outside subdivision review. Because this standard is written into the UDO, the Article 3 enforcement and penalty scheme applies the same way it does to every other UDO requirement: the Administrator can issue a written notice of violation and a correction order if a subdivider proceeds without the required survey or commission review, and an uncorrected violation can draw a civil penalty up to $500 or a Class 3 misdemeanor charge, with the correction order appealable to the Board of Adjustment.