A North Carolina realtor warns that proposed septic regulations could restrict rural housing development. He cites a grandmother with ten acres unable to build for her grandchildren, and argues that changes without solid data limit land use and reduce property values for homeowners who rely on well and septic systems.
Last week, the North Carolina REALTORS® had a very robust conversation about, well, shit. And I hate to use a word, but really I'm using it here as a noun. What we're talking about is proposed regulatory changes to septic drain fields and septic repair fields. Now, if you're somebody who lives in a city and you're on municipal water and sewer, you may be thinking you don't know anything about this. And that's okay, because us REALTORS®, we pay attention to it. Because while my building here in Concord is on municipal systems, you don't have to go very far out from here to find folks who rely on well and septic. And if those environmental overlays get changed, it puts a restriction on housing. And in fact, the hardest part is when you have someone who's a mamaw and she's on 10 lovely acres and she wants those grands to move in next to her. When you start changing around all the septic regulations without good reasoning, good data, it makes it hard for her to use her land as she wishes. It's realtors that get involved in
