Do I need a Special Use Permit for my use?

Check the designation for your use in the Sec. 9-1254 Permitted Use Table. If it requires a Special Use Permit (SUP), Fuquay-Varina routes that approval to the Board of Adjustment (BOA), the same quasi-judicial board that hears variances, rather than to the Town Board of Commissioners. The process starts with a pre-submittal meeting with Town staff, then formal submittal to the Planning Department by the BOA deadline, a required neighborhood meeting at least 25 days before the first hearing (with 10 days' notice to property owners within 200 feet), and an evidentiary hearing where the BOA votes to approve, approve with conditions, or deny. If approved, a site plan application still has to go through Planning Department review. Unlike variances, state law (N.C. Gen. Stat. Sec. 160D-705(c)) does not itself set the findings-of-fact standard for an SUP; it leaves that to Fuquay-Varina's own ordinance while authorizing reasonable conditions and safeguards. The exact numbered findings of fact LDO Sec. 9-1808 requires the BOA to make before approving an SUP were not independently confirmed from the primary ordinance text this session; confirm those with the Planning Department at 919-552-1429 before applying.