Mooresville Mill Village

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Neighborhood Conservation Overlay: Quiz

1. The NCO forbids the following type of land use:?

2. The following exterior house colors are not acceptable under the NCO:

Red, Orange, and Purple
Red, Purple, and Blue
Purple only
None of the above Painting is considered maintenance and is not regulated by the NCO.

3. To make their houses meet the new code, current property owners must complete the following within 5 years of the NCO passage:

Install double-paned insulated windows
Clean the front porch
Install an acceptable energy-efficient heating and cooling system
None of the above Current property owners do not have to make their houses meet the NCO standards. They must only comply with the standards when they decide to make a change to their property.

4. According to the NCO, a property owner must request a permit to do the following:

Paint his/her house
Repair siding
Install an outbuilding Any new construction, including new accessory buildings, requires a permit and must comply with the NCO regulations. Maintenance, such as painting or replacing broken or missing siding, is not regulated by the NCO.
None of the above

5. Which of the following is forbidden by the NCO:

Raising pit bulls in the back yard
Keeping trash on the porch
Enclosing the front porch According to the Mill Village NCO, the front porch must remain unscreened and unenclosed. Trash is regulated by nuisance code; animals are regulated by Animal Control.
None of the above

6. The NCO allows additions to be built to a house:

By adding a 2nd storey or dormers
At the rear of the house According to the NCO, additions must be made to the rear of the house so as not to be noticeable from the street.
Wherever there is room to build
Additions are not allowed

7. Which type of siding is not allowed by the NCO:

Metal
Vinyl
Cement
None of the above The NCO requires that exterior siding for dwellings be a horizontal, wood-grained lap siding, which can be made of wood, vinyl, hardiplank or other material that achieves the same look. Metal siding is not allowed by the new Mooresville zoning code.

8. The NCO is more lenient than Mooresville Zoning Code with regards to:

Animals
Setbacks Because of the small lots, the NCO allows for smaller setbacks from the street than the Mooresville zoning regulations. The smaller setbacks allow for additions, carports, accessory buildings, etc. to be added.
Fences
None of the above

9. According to the NCO, when a new house is built it must:

Look like a mill house One of the main goals of the NCO is to maintain the traditional mill village streetscape. To achieve this, new houses must blend seamlessly with the old.
Include sidewalks in the front
Be owner-occupied
None of the above

10) Neighborhood Conservation Overlay districting is most similar to:

Historic Districting
Local zoning and land-use regulations An NCO is an added set of local zoning regulations that are specific to the neighborhood in question, in this case the Mill Village.
North Carolina residential code for one- and two-family dwellings
Eminent Domain