North Carolina County and Code Starting Points

Union County Manufactured Home Starting Points

Union County does not ask whether your home is a mobile home - it asks which class it is. The county's table of allowed uses gives a detached house one row and permits it by right in all ten residential districts. A manufactured home, which is the word the county's paperwork uses for the same home, gets four separate rows: Class A, Class B, Class C and Class D. A Class A home is permitted by right in eight of the ten residential districts. A Class B home is permitted by right in four of them and needs a special use permit with a hearing in three more. A Class C home is permitted by right in three. In R-6 and R-4, the county's two smallest-lot districts, no manufactured home of any class is allowed, and a site-built house is. The class is not about the home's age or condition - it is about length against width, roof pitch, siding and whether the towing gear has been removed. The county's zoning covers all of the unincorporated county, so if your land is outside the thirteen towns and cities, these are the rules that apply to it.

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Common Questions

Mobile homes in Union County, answered from the county's own sources.

Can I put a mobile home on my land in Union County?

Is there anything in Union County that could stop a mobile home on this land?

A stick-built house can go where your home cannot. This is stated on its own because it is the finding most likely to cost a buyer money, and because it does not show up when you look at a parcel's district in isolation. The use table treats a manufactured home as a narrower use than a site-built house in every district where the two are compared. A floodway is a flat no, whatever the zoning district says. Article 65 of the ordinance covers flood damage prevention, and its rule for floodways and non-encroachment areas is not a standard to meet. It is a prohibition, and it sits on top of whatever the use table says about the district. Source: Union County Unified Development Ordinance, reviewed 2026-09-12.

Which zoning districts in Union County allow a mobile home?

Four rows for your home, one row for a stick-built house. Union County's Table 25-1 runs uses down the left and seventeen zoning districts across the top: RA-200, RA-40, RA-20, R-40, R-20, R-15, R-10, R-8, R-6, R-4, O, B-2, B-3, B-4, HC, LI and HI. A P means permitted by right with a zoning permit. An S means a special use permit, which is a hearing. A blank means not allowed. Most counties in this library give a mobile home one row. Union gives it four, and the difference between them is the difference between buying the land and not. Source: Union County Unified Development Ordinance, reviewed 2026-09-12.

Does Union County set rules on the home itself — width, skirting or roof?

Length against width, roof pitch, siding, and the towing gear. The class is not about age, condition or price. Section 25.020 of the ordinance defines it, and every criterion is something a tape measure or a photograph can settle before you make an offer. A manufactured housing unit in this ordinance is a home built to the federal standard rather than the North Carolina State Building Code, assembled in a plant, brought to the lot on its own chassis, and more than 40 feet long and 8 feet wide. Source: Union County Unified Development Ordinance, reviewed 2026-09-12.

Do I need a septic or well permit in Union County?

What each district asks for in size, width and setbacks. Table 5-2 sets the numbers for conventional development. RA-40 uses the R-40 column and RA-20 uses the R-20 column. The ordinance says plainly that these numbers are not a guarantee - water, sewer, health department requirements and other rules can cut the buildable yield further. Source: Union County Unified Development Ordinance, reviewed 2026-09-12.

Manufactured Home Placement Questions

Start with what the sources actually support.

Do I need a permit for a mobile home in Union County?

The use table has four manufactured-home rows - Class A, Class B, Class C and Class D - and one row for a detached house, so the class of the home decides the answer

A detached house is permitted by right in all ten residential districts: RA-200, RA-40, RA-20, R-40, R-20, R-15, R-10, R-8, R-6 and R-4

A Class A home is permitted by right in eight of them - everything except R-6 and R-4

A Class B home is permitted by right in RA-200, RA-40, RA-20 and R-8, and needs a special use permit in R-40, R-20 and R-15

A Class C home is permitted by right in RA-40, RA-20 and R-8 only

In R-6 and R-4 no manufactured home of any class appears in the table, while a detached house does

Class D appears once in the entire ordinance, in its own definition, and has no row in the use table

Class A means the home is no more than three times as long as it is wide, has a roof pitch of at least one foot of rise per five feet of run finished with ordinary shingles, has wood, hardboard or aluminum siding, and has had its tongue, axles, lights and towing apparatus removed before anyone moves in

Class B is a Class A home that is longer than three times its width - the one criterion most single-wides fail

A new manufactured housing park is not permitted in any of the county's seventeen zoning districts, although the ordinance sets standards for one

In a mapped floodway or non-encroachment area, no manufactured home is permitted at all except a replacement in an existing park or subdivision

The county's zoning applies to all of Union County outside the corporate limits and extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality, and to Hemby Bridge

Thirteen municipalities run their own zoning: Fairview, Indian Trail, Lake Park, Marshville, Marvin, Mineral Springs, Monroe, Stallings, Unionville, Waxhaw, Weddington, Wesley Chapel and Wingate

No age limit and no year cut-off for a manufactured home appears anywhere in the ordinance

Not more than one principal dwelling unit is allowed on a single lot unless it is approved as a townhouse or a multi-unit development

A zoning permit is $60.00 and a special use permit is $800.00 under the fee schedule effective 1 August 2026

Union County Local Process Guide

Official-source-backed starting points and questions to verify.

These sections organize the public source links already reviewed for this page. Where a source does not answer a project-specific question, the item is framed as something to ask the county, AHJ, utility company, licensed professional, dealer, setup contractor, or responsible provider.

Where a home is allowed

Four rows for your home, one row for a stick-built house.

Union County's Table 25-1 runs uses down the left and seventeen zoning districts across the top: RA-200, RA-40, RA-20, R-40, R-20, R-15, R-10, R-8, R-6, R-4, O, B-2, B-3, B-4, HC, LI and HI. A P means permitted by right with a zoning permit. An S means a special use permit, which is a hearing. A blank means not allowed. Most counties in this library give a mobile home one row. Union gives it four, and the difference between them is the difference between buying the land and not.

Detached House: P in RA-200, RA-40, RA-20, R-40, R-20, R-15, R-10, R-8, R-6 and R-4. All ten residential districts, and none of the seven office, business or industrial ones.
Manufactured Housing Unit, Class A: P in RA-200, RA-40, RA-20, R-40, R-20, R-15, R-10 and R-8. Blank in R-6 and R-4.
Manufactured Housing Unit, Class B: P in RA-200, RA-40, RA-20 and R-8. S - special use permit - in R-40, R-20 and R-15. Blank in R-10, R-6 and R-4.
Manufactured Housing Unit, Class C: P in RA-40, RA-20 and R-8. Blank everywhere else, including RA-200, the county's largest-lot rural district.
Manufactured Housing Unit, Temporary: P in RA-200 through R-6, under Section 30.120 - this is the row for living on the land while the permanent house is built, not for a home you intend to keep.
Manufactured Housing Park: blank in all seventeen districts.
Every cell above was confirmed by the horizontal position of each mark against the district headings, not by reading a text extraction of the table. The first reading of this table found only sixteen columns and shifted every answer to the right of R-4 by one district, and nothing about that reading looked wrong.

What the class means

Length against width, roof pitch, siding, and the towing gear.

The class is not about age, condition or price. Section 25.020 of the ordinance defines it, and every criterion is something a tape measure or a photograph can settle before you make an offer. A manufactured housing unit in this ordinance is a home built to the federal standard rather than the North Carolina State Building Code, assembled in a plant, brought to the lot on its own chassis, and more than 40 feet long and 8 feet wide.

Class A must meet or exceed the federal construction standards in effect when it was built, and then meet four more things.
First: the home is no more than three times as long as it is wide. A 16-foot-wide single-wide at 60 feet long is 3.75 times its width and is not Class A.
Second: the roof rises at least one foot for every five feet of run - about 2.4 in 12 - and is finished with a shingle of the type used on ordinary houses.
Third: the siding is wood, hardboard or aluminum, vinyl-covered or painted, comparable in composition, appearance and durability to the siding used on a stick-built house.
Fourth: the tongue, the axles, the transporting lights and the removable towing apparatus are taken off after the home is placed and before anyone moves in.
Class B is a home that meets all of that except the length-to-width ratio. In practice that is the common single-wide with a good roof and good siding.
Class C meets the federal standards but does not satisfy all of the Class A or Class B criteria.
Class D is defined in the same section and then never used again - it appears exactly once in the whole ordinance, and the use table has no row for it. As printed, its definition reads as though it covers a home that does meet the Class A, B or C criteria, which cannot be its intent given that those three classes already have their own rows. A buyer whose home is not Class A, B or C should ask the county directly what applies, and this page does not answer it for them.

Adverse finding

A stick-built house can go where your home cannot.

This is stated on its own because it is the finding most likely to cost a buyer money, and because it does not show up when you look at a parcel's district in isolation. The use table treats a manufactured home as a narrower use than a site-built house in every district where the two are compared.

R-6 and R-4: a detached house is permitted by right. No manufactured home of any class appears. Two districts where the land is zoned residential, a house is allowed, and your home is not.
R-10: a detached house and a Class A home are permitted. A Class B or Class C home is not - not even by special use permit.
R-40, R-20 and R-15: a detached house and a Class A home are permitted by right. A Class B home requires a special use permit, which is a public hearing before the land use board, an $800.00 fee under the schedule effective 1 August 2026, and a decision that can go against you.
RA-200: a detached house, a Class A home and a Class B home are permitted by right. A Class C home is not.
The practical consequence is that the class of the specific home you are buying can make a parcel work or not work, and the two are usually decided by different people weeks apart - the land first, the home second.

Adverse finding

A floodway is a flat no, whatever the zoning district says.

Article 65 of the ordinance covers flood damage prevention, and its rule for floodways and non-encroachment areas is not a standard to meet. It is a prohibition, and it sits on top of whatever the use table says about the district.

In a floodway or non-encroachment area: no manufactured homes are permitted, except a replacement home in an existing manufactured home park or subdivision that meets the anchoring, elevation and no-encroachment standards.
That is a different rule from the rest of the floodplain. Outside the floodway, a new or replacement manufactured home is allowed if it is elevated so that its reference level is no lower than the regulatory flood protection elevation.
Anchoring must resist flotation, collapse and lateral movement, either by a certified engineered foundation system or under the current North Carolina Regulations for Manufactured Homes adopted by the Commissioner of Insurance.
If meeting the elevation puts the chassis 36 inches or less above grade, the chassis must sit on reinforced piers or an engineered foundation. Above 36 inches, an engineering certification is required - a cost and a professional a buyer usually has not budgeted for.
Skirting and any enclosure below the lowest floor have to meet the article's own requirements for enclosures.
Whether a parcel is in a floodway, in a flood zone outside the floodway, or in neither, is a map question about that specific parcel. This page does not answer it for any parcel.

The park question

The ordinance describes a manufactured housing park it does not allow anywhere.

Section 30.130 sets out a full set of standards for a manufactured housing park - land area, streets, parking, open space, accessory buildings. Table 25-1 gives the use a blank in all seventeen districts. Both of those are in the same document.

Section 30.130 requires a minimum of 2 acres and sites for at least 5 manufactured housing units, paved streets built to state Department of Transportation standards, two off-street parking spaces per site, and at least 10,000 square feet of open space per 25 sites.
Park sites may not take direct driveway access to a state-maintained road, and the zoning district's own setbacks apply to each site.
No living compartment may be added to a home in a park other than a Florida room or a prefabricated structure designed for it; a roofed porch open on at least three sides is allowed.
But the use row for Manufactured Housing Park carries no P and no S in any district, so nothing in the table establishes a district where a new park may be created.
The only mechanism in the ordinance that sets allowed uses at the time of approval rather than by district is the MPD, Master Planned Development district, where the Board of Commissioners fixes the use regulations when it approves the development plan.
This page does not conclude that a new park is impossible in Union County. It records that the use table shows no district for one, and that the question belongs to the planning department in writing.
For a buyer, the live version of this question is usually different and simpler: an existing park is an existing use, and what matters is the park's own rules and whether the lot is rented or owned.

The lot itself

What each district asks for in size, width and setbacks.

Table 5-2 sets the numbers for conventional development. RA-40 uses the R-40 column and RA-20 uses the R-20 column. The ordinance says plainly that these numbers are not a guarantee - water, sewer, health department requirements and other rules can cut the buildable yield further.

RA-200: 200,000 square feet - about 4.6 acres - minimum lot width 300 feet, front setback 40 feet, side 15, rear 40, corner side 20.
R-40 and RA-40: 40,000 square feet, width 120 feet, front 40, side 15, rear 40, corner side 20.
R-20 and RA-20: 20,000 square feet, width 100 feet, front 40, side 12, rear 40, corner side 20.
R-15: 15,000 square feet, width 80 feet, front 30, side 10, rear 30, corner side 15.
R-10: 10,000 square feet, width 70 feet, front 30, side 10, rear 30, corner side 15.
R-8: 8,000 square feet, width 60 feet, front 30, side 10, rear 30, corner side 15.
Maximum building coverage is 40 percent in every residential district, and maximum height is 35 feet in RA-200 through R-10 and 50 feet in R-8, R-6 and R-4.
Not more than one principal dwelling unit is allowed on a single lot unless it is approved as a townhouse or multi-unit development.
Property used for bona fide farm purposes is outside the zoning regulations entirely under NCGS 160D-903. The ordinance accepts a farm sales tax exemption certificate, a present-use-value property tax listing, the most recent Schedule F federal return, a forest management plan, or a USDA farm identification number as evidence.

Getting the permit

What the county asks for, and what it costs.

Union County runs plan review and permitting through an online portal, and the building permit is the last of three things rather than the first. Zoning approval and a water-and-sewer answer both come before it.

The county's own summary of a residential building permit: a completed application, plus either an accessibility letter from Public Works for sewer or water or a septic permit or waiver from Environmental Health, plus zoning approval, plus lien agent and workers compensation information if the job is over $30,000.
Zoning approval for a parcel in the county's jurisdiction is handled in the building code enforcement office. The cost of a residential permit is based on heated and unheated square footage under the building fee schedule.
Planning fees effective 1 August 2026: zoning permit $60.00, zoning verification letter $50.00, final zoning re-inspection $80.00, special use permit or variance $800.00, straight rezoning $600.00, appeal of an administrative decision $350.00 and refunded if the appeal succeeds.
A zoning verification letter is the $50.00 document to ask for before you buy if you want the district and the allowed use in writing.
From 1 July 2025 the county no longer accepts a megohmmeter test or report from a registered design professional in place of an electrical inspection for concealed wiring, and wiring concealed before an approved inspection has to be uncovered.
Union County Planning is at 500 N. Main St., Suite 70, Monroe, NC 28112, (704) 283-3565.

What this page could not settle

Five open questions, written as questions.

Each of these changes the answer for a parcel, and none of them is settled by the documents read for this page. They are absences in what was read, not findings.

What applies to a Class D home. The class is defined once and never used, and the use table has no row for it. Nothing read establishes where such a home may go, and nothing read rules it out.
Whether a new manufactured housing park can be established at all, given that Section 30.130 sets standards for one and the use table shows no district that allows it.
What a septic permit or a well permit costs in Union County and how long each takes. The Environmental Health fee schedule was not read and no figure is on this page.
What a residential building permit costs for a specific home. The building fee schedule prices it by square footage and that schedule was not read for this page.
Whether the ordinance the county links is its most recent text. Its page footer reads amendments through 1 July 2021 while sections inside it carry notes dated 21 November 2022 and 15 May 2023, and the file was produced 6 December 2024. Anything read from it should be confirmed against the county's current text before money moves.

Local Prerequisites To Verify

Environmental health, utilities, zoning, and access may shape the sequence.

Septic approval or existing-system review

County sources often require septic approval, construction authorization, or existing-system authorization before or alongside manufactured-home permitting.

Septic

Well or water availability

County sources may require well, public water, or water-sewer tap documentation before a permit can move forward.

Well Plumbing

Water/sewer availability

Some county sources ask for sewer approval, tap receipts, or public water documentation when applicable.

Plumbing Septic Well

Utility service availability

Some county sources connect power release or final readiness to completed trade inspections or utility-provider steps.

Electrical HVAC Propane / Gas

Zoning or land-use review

County sources may require zoning, municipal zoning, watershed, floodplain, or land-use review before manufactured-home placement.

Engineering

Driveway or access

Driveway, access, or delivery-route questions belong in the library only where county or source-backed process notes make them relevant.

Driveway Improvement Grading and Site Preparation Transport and Setup

Inspection-Related Scopes

Limited to source-backed manufactured-home scopes.

Grading and Site Preparation

Use only where source-backed county or state guidance ties grading to pad, drainage, foundation readiness, access, footers, or setup readiness.

Several county sources reference site grading, drainage, footings, setup readiness, or documents needed before power or final signoff.

Transport and Setup

Core manufactured-home installation scope for delivery, setup, pier/blocking, anchoring, tie-downs, setup contractor information, and inspection readiness.

The NC Installation Manual is the primary statewide installation source; county manufactured-home process pages may add local setup contractor, permit, and inspection steps.

Electrical

Electrical service, site-installed electrical work, utility handoffs, and inspection readiness when source-backed.

County sources commonly separate electrical permits or inspections for mobile/manufactured-home setup.

Plumbing

Plumbing connections, water and waste lines, pressure or water tests, and final readiness where source-backed.

County sources commonly separate plumbing permits or inspections for mobile/manufactured-home setup.

HVAC

Mechanical systems, heat pump or air-conditioning work, ducting, and final readiness where source-backed.

County sources commonly reference mechanical permits or inspections for mobile/manufactured-home setup.

Propane / Gas

Use only when official guidance mentions gas service, gas appliance connections, LP systems, fuel-gas inspection, pressure testing, shutoffs, or installation-manual requirements.

Onslow County explicitly groups gas fuel work with prescriptive code and NC manufactured-home regulations for manufactured-home permits.

Decks / Stairs / Landings / Handicap Ramps

Egress, steps, landings, handrails, ramps, deck thresholds, and final access readiness where source-backed.

County manufactured-home guides may reference stoops, steps, landings, handrails, and deck-size thresholds.

Masonry / Block / Foundation

Footings, piers, blocking, masonry skirting/foundation presentation, soil bearing, anchorage, and foundation readiness where source-backed.

County sources reference footings, piers, blocking, anchorage, soil bearing, tie-downs, or foundation-related items in inspection processes.

Vinyl Skirting

Skirting or underpinning only where source-backed guidance connects it to inspection timing, access, ventilation, appearance, or placement requirements.

County manufactured-home inspection documents may reference skirting timing, access panels, or underpinning requirements.

Trim-Out / Carpentry

Use only where official guidance touches final trim-out, marriage line completion, close-up, access panels, finish details, weatherproofing, or readiness for final inspection.

Onslow County references marriage wall inspection for multi-wide homes and close-up type items within manufactured-home setup inspections.

Questions To Ask The County

Bring better questions to the right local office.

Which zoning district is this parcel in, and is it inside the county's jurisdiction or inside one of the thirteen towns?

Is the home I am buying a Class A, a Class B or a Class C under the county's definitions - measured, not assumed?

If it is a Class B and the parcel is R-40, R-20 or R-15, what does the special use permit process take in time, and what happens if the board says no?

Is any part of this parcel in a mapped floodway or non-encroachment area, where no manufactured home is permitted?

If the parcel is in a flood zone but not a floodway, how high does the home have to sit, and will the chassis be more than 36 inches above grade?

Is this lot served by county water and sewer, or does it need a septic permit and a well from Environmental Health before the building permit can be issued?

What does the septic review cost and how long is the wait right now?

Is a Class D home - one that does not meet the Class A, B or C criteria - allowed anywhere in the county, given that the use table has no row for it?

Does the county consider this property a bona fide farm, and what does that change?

Related provider types

Transport and Setup Septic Well Electrical Plumbing HVAC Grading and Site Preparation Masonry / Block / Foundation Driveway Improvement

Related project stages

Purchasing or Acquiring Land Permits, Septic, and Utilities Preparing Your Land Setup and Installation After Installation / Move-In

Source notes

Every cell quoted from Table 25-1 was confirmed by the horizontal coordinate of the mark against the coordinates of the district headings, and the reading was refused unless all seventeen district headings were found and every mark fell within 8 points of a column centre. The first attempt found sixteen headings - the O district's heading is a single letter on the second heading line - and assigned every mark to the right of R-4 one column too far left. It printed plausible values and nothing errored. Read 2026-09-12.

The class definitions, including the four Class A criteria and the Class D definition, are from Section 25.020 of the ordinance. The word 'Class D' appears exactly once in the document's text - in that definition. Its printed wording reads as though Class D covers a home that does meet the Class A, B or C criteria; this page records that wording and does not correct it.

The lot areas, widths, setbacks, heights and coverage are from Table 5-2, R District Lot and Building Regulations - Conventional Development, as amended 6 August 2018. The one-principal-dwelling-per-lot rule is from Section 5.020 as amended 18 May 2015.

The jurisdiction statement is from Section 1.040 of the ordinance: the provisions apply within all of Union County outside the corporate or extraterritorial jurisdiction of any municipality. The list of thirteen municipalities is the county's own, on its building code enforcement page, and the statement that the county also zones Hemby Bridge is from its planning page.

The floodway prohibition and the elevation, anchoring and 36-inch chassis rules are from Article 65, Flood Damage Prevention, Sections 65.020-B3 and 65.040. No flood map was read and no parcel's flood status was determined.

The manufactured housing park standards are from Section 30.130. The blank row for that use in Table 25-1 is a fact about the table. Whether a new park can be established in Union County is recorded as UNKNOWN and is not asserted either way.

No minimum heated floor area, no minimum width beyond the 8-foot figure inside the definition of a manufactured housing unit, no skirting standard and no age limit for a manufactured home was found in the ordinance. The words '1976' and 'years of age' do not appear in its text.

The fee figures are from the county's planning fee schedule headed effective 1 August 2026. The building permit fee schedule and the Environmental Health fee schedule were not read, so no septic, well or building permit cost is on this page.

The ordinance's own page footer reads effective 6 October 2014 with amendments through 1 July 2021, while sections inside it carry later amendment notes. That discrepancy is stated on the page rather than resolved.

No written answer from Union County Planning, Building Code Enforcement or Environmental Health is on file for this page.

This page carries the offices, addresses and published phone numbers from the county's own pages, and no staff names.

No project approval, inspection result, or utility-release outcome is implied.

Helpful Next Steps

Move from Union County questions into the right My Manufactured Home Guide path.

Use these pages to organize the next question by stage, responsibility, utility path, setup readiness, or private project summary. They do not replace county, utility, AHJ, or professional confirmation.

Manufactured-home permit order

Separate land-use, environmental health, permit, setup, trade, and utility-release lanes.

How to check zoning for a manufactured home

Ask district, use, and dimensional questions before assuming a parcel allows a home.

Manufactured-home site plan checklist

Prepare parcel, structure, access, septic, well, and setback information for local review.

Source Hierarchy

State installation guidance first, then local process.

The NC Installation Manual sets how a home is installed statewide. Union County's own offices set the permit steps, zoning, septic and inspections.

NC installation guidance

primary statewide installation source

Primary statewide installation source: NC Installation Manual

Primary statewide installation source for North Carolina manufactured-home installation requirements, published as the State of North Carolina Regulations for Manufactured Homes.

state program authority

State program authority: NC OSFM Manufactured Homes

Official state manufactured-homes program landing page and document hub; use the NC Installation Manual for installation-specific requirement details.

state program authority

State program authority: NC OSFM Manufactured Building

Official NC OSFM manufactured building division page for manufactured and modular housing resources.

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Union County local process sources

County and local AHJ sources explain local process layers; they do not replace statewide installation guidance or project-specific authority.

County Links and Source Notes

Official source links reviewed for this page.

We organize Union County's own sources. Rules change — confirm them with the county before you rely on them.

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Local process source: Union County Unified Development Ordinance

The ordinance linked as 'Union County Unified Development Ordinance' from the county's Planning and Development page. Its page footer reads effective 6 October 2014 with amendments through 1 July 2021, and individual sections inside it carry later amendment notes, including 21 November 2022 and 15 May 2023. The file the county serves was produced 6 December 2024. The use answers on this page come from Table 25-1, the Table of Allowed Uses; the class definitions from Section 25.020; the lot and setback numbers from Table 5-2. Read 2026-09-12.

Responsible authority / official host: unioncountync.gov
Purpose and coverage: local process source
Last verified: 2026-09-12
Link health: Verified when reviewed; reconfirm the current page or form before relying on it.
Fallback status: Direct local-process starting point

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Local process source: Union County Planning and Development

The planning department page. It states that Union County has zoning authority for the unincorporated areas of the county and for Hemby Bridge, and that the final decision on a rezoning in the county's jurisdiction lies with the Board of Commissioners. Planning is at 500 N. Main St., Suite 70, Monroe, NC 28112, (704) 283-3565. The page links a municipality search tool for finding out whether a parcel is inside a town. Read 2026-09-12.

Responsible authority / official host: unioncountync.gov
Purpose and coverage: local process source
Last verified: 2026-09-12
Link health: Verified when reviewed; reconfirm the current page or form before relying on it.
Fallback status: Direct local-process starting point

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Local process source: Union County Building Code Enforcement

The building permit page. It names what a residential building permit application must arrive with, and it lists the thirteen municipalities that Union County's zoning jurisdiction does not include. It also carries the county's notice that from 1 July 2025 it no longer accepts a megohmmeter test or report in place of an electrical inspection for concealed wiring, and that concealed wiring inspected after the fact must be uncovered. Read 2026-09-12.

Responsible authority / official host: unioncountync.gov
Purpose and coverage: local process source
Last verified: 2026-09-12
Link health: Verified when reviewed; reconfirm the current page or form before relying on it.
Fallback status: Direct local-process starting point

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Local process source: Union County Planning Fee Schedule

The planning fee schedule the county's planning page links, headed effective 1 August 2026 with public notice 1 July 2026. A zoning permit is $60.00, a zoning verification letter $50.00, a final zoning re-inspection $80.00, a special use permit or variance $800.00, a straight rezoning $600.00 and an appeal of an administrative decision $350.00, refunded if the appeal succeeds. Read 2026-09-12.

Responsible authority / official host: unioncountync.gov
Purpose and coverage: local process source
Last verified: 2026-09-12
Link health: Verified when reviewed; reconfirm the current page or form before relying on it.
Fallback status: Direct local-process starting point

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Local process source: Union County Environmental Health

Environmental Health runs the septic and well programs under Chapters 130A and 87 of the General Statutes. A residential building permit application must carry either a septic permit or a septic waiver from this division, or an accessibility letter from Public Works for county water and sewer. No septic or well fee figure and no review time was read for this page. Read 2026-09-12.

Responsible authority / official host: unioncountync.gov
Purpose and coverage: local process source
Last verified: 2026-09-12
Link health: Verified when reviewed; reconfirm the current page or form before relying on it.
Fallback status: Direct local-process starting point

Manufactured Home Land Check

Will this Union County land take a manufactured home? Find out before you commit to buying the land, or the home.

Buying land, already own it, or selling it — one report on what the county and the land will allow.

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