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Umstead and Town Center Small Area Plan
  • Umstead Town Center Small Area Plan
Imagine Butner 2040 Plan
  • 2040 FLUM Character / Land Use Areas​ (descriptions of land use areas on the future land use map)
  • 2040 Future Land Use Map
  • 2040 Goals and Objectives​
  • 2040 Surveys and Public Engagement  Information from public workshops and surveys distributed to all homes in Butner. 
  • 2040 Data and Analysis  Where development should occur should be the first question asked when planning for the future of a town.  The answer is tied to fiscal resources, existing infrastructure, environmental constraints and the utilization of best features.
  • 2040 Public Meeting Information Posters​​
  • 2020 Butner Comprehensive Plan
​Town Building and Design:  What Works Elsewhere...Trends in Design and Demographics  Knowing what works elsewhere, in other towns of similar size and circumstances as Butner is a great learning tool.  There are terms you will hear and read about in this process.  Learn about Mixed-Use and Traditional Neighborhood Development, the role of Transportation on all aspects of our health, safety, and welfare including how it impact our ability to "age in place".  ​​​

Miscellaneous Plans
NC 56 Corridor Study
Butner Pedestrian Plan

2020 Butner Comprehensive Plan (adopted 2011)

Other Jurisdictional Plans Impacting Butner's Long-Range Planning
Plans from surrounding jurisdictions are especially important to our future.  Links to these are located below.  One, the NCDOT Plans, impact funding for new transportation infrastructure (hint, the future is not bright); while the other, Granville County's long-range plan "Comprehensive Plan" lets us know where the County will be looking to encourage development, investment in open space, etc..  Since we are practically surrounded by Granville County land, what they imagine their future to be is something about which we need to be aware.  Creedmoor's Comprehensive Plan is important for the same reasons, as is Stem's and Durham County.  To learn more, click on the links below:
​NC Department of Transportation 2040 Plans

Granville County Comprehensive Plan

Creedmoor Comprehensive Plan

Durham Comprehensive Plan


​Stem Comprehensive Plan (in progress)

Butner Town Planning Customer and Resident Information

  • Planning And Zoning Applications, Guidelines, Instructions, Etc. (Coming Soon)
  • Stormwater ​Applications, Guidelines, Instructions, Etc. (Coming Soon)
  • Planning Studies including Comprehensive Plan (Coming Soon)
  • Maps and Data (Coming Soon)
“If you don’t know where you are going, you could wind up someplace else.”
Yogi Berra

Butner 2040:  Why Having a Vision Matters

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Peering into the future is a favorite exercise for planners and designers. From the Chicago 1893 Columbian Exhibition to New York City’s two Worlds Fairs (1939 and 1965) and beyond, the future was optimistic and filled with cool technology and architecture.  What do we think the future will look like 20 years or so from now? And what will Butner be like in 2040?  The quality of our Town's future depends on the choices we make today.  The foundation of the Imagine Butner 2040 Comprehensive Plan is the Mapping and Suitability Analysis which is a GIS-based build-out model that estimates potential future growth in the Butner. ​

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Winston Churchill

A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.
James Howard Kunstler

2040 Comprehensive Plan Pages

Planning and Zoning Department Pages

2040 Data and Analysis
2040 Surveys and Public Engagement
Town Building and Design​
Applications, Guidelines, Instructions (Coming Soon)
Zoning Maps and Data (Coming Soon) 
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Butner Planning Department
Attn.:  Michael Ciriello, AICP, Planning Director
415 Central Avenue, PO Box 270
​Butner, North Carolina 27509
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