Morrisville Unified Development Ordinance – September 2018

Article 5: Development Standards Section 5.10. Parking and Loading 5.10.6. Off-Street Parking Arrangement and Design

For already developed sites, the Planning Director shall also consider the location and orientation of existing buildings, building entrances, parking areas, and access and circulation patterns. b. On determining that it is impracticable to locate all proposed new or additional surface vehicle parking to the rear or side of the development’s principal building(s), the Planning Director may allow alternative locations and arrangements of the surface parking—provided that in addition to vehicle use area screening required by Section 5.12.4, Vehicle Use Area Landscaping, a Type G, Option 2 streetyard buffer shall be provided between a street and any surface vehicle parking located between it and the development’s principal building(s). (See Section 5.7, Perimeter and Streetyard Buffers.) c. Alternative parking configurations may be approved in accordance with Section 2.5.23, Alternative Equivalent Compliance, in the Main Street District. (Ord. No. 2018-302-0, 09/11/2018) Activity Center Districts a. For multifamily, nonresidential and mixed-use developments with off-street surface vehicle parking located in an Activity Center district, no more than one single-loaded bay of off-street surface vehicle parking may be located between the development’s principal buildings(s) and abutting streets. (See Figure 5.10.6.B.2: Single- loaded bay of off-street surface vehicle parking.) b. On determining that it is impracticable to locate only one single-loaded bay of off-street surface vehicle parking between the development’s principal buildings(s) and abutting streets, the Planning Director may allow alternative locations and arrangements of the surface parking— provided that in addition to vehicle use area screening required by Section 5.12.4, Vehicle Use Area Landscaping, a Type G, Option 2 streetyard buffer shall be provided between a street and any surface vehicle parking located between it and the development’s principal building(s). (See Section 5.7, Perimeter and Streetyard Buffers.) (Ord. No. 2014-022, 06/24/2014; Ord. No. 2015-047, 07/28/2015; Ord. No. 2016-001, 05/10/2016, Ord. No. 2018-302- 0, 09/11/2018) Other Districts a. For multifamily, nonresidential and mixed-use developments located outside the Transit- Oriented Development (TOD) District, a Town Center, or Activity Center district, no more than 50 percent of the overall required parking shall be located between the development’s principal building(s) and abutting streets. (See Figure 5.10.6.B.4: Fifty percent of the overall required parking shall be located between the development’s principal building(s) and abutting streets.) Figure 5.10.6.B.3: Single-loaded bay of off- street surface vehicle parking.

Morrisville, NC

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Unified Development Ordinance

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