Morrisville Unified Development Ordinance – September 2018

Article 11: Interpretation and Definitions Section 11.5. Terms and Uses Defined 11.4.2. Exceptions and Variations

S HOPPING C ENTER , N EIGHBORHOOD A building or a group of connected or freestanding buildings under single or multiple ownership that contains retail goods and service uses serving the needs of local residential neighborhoods. A neighborhood shopping center is designed, constructed, and operated on an integral and coordinated basis, with common parking, pedestrian movement, and ingress and egress. It has no more than 150,000 square feet of total floor area, and no single tenant greater than 60,000 square feet of floor area. S HORELINE S TABILIZATION The in-place stabilization of an eroding shoreline. Stabilization techniques which include “soft” methods or natural materials (such as root wads, or rock vanes) may be considered as part of a restoration design. However, stabilization techniques that consist primarily of “hard” engineering, such as concrete lined channels, riprap, or gabions, while providing bank stabilization, shall not be considered stream restoration. S HRUB A woody plant, smaller than a tree, consisting of several small stems emerging from the ground, or small branches near the ground. Shrubs may be deciduous or evergreen. S IDEWALK A hard-surfaced, all-weather pedestrian walkway within a street right-of-way or easement. S IGN Any identification, description, animation, illustration, or device (including logos, trademarks, branding, project initials, and the like), whether illuminated or non-illuminated, that is visible from any right-of-way and directs attention to any realty, product, service, place, activity, person, institution, performance, commodity, firm business or solicitation, including any permanently installed or situated merchandise or any emblem, painting, banner, poster, bulletin board, pennant, placard, or temporary sign designed to identify or convey information, with the exception of North Carolina state, municipal, or national flags. S IGN A REA /S URFACE AREA The entire area shall be measured by the square, rectangle, semicircle, or parallelogram thereof, and comprise the entire sign inclusive of any border or trim and all the elements of the matter displayed, but excluding the base or apron, supports and other structural members. In the case of three-dimensional letters or painted letters directly on a building wall surface, the surface area shall be defined as that area encompassing the area of the letters including any trim or border. S IGN P ERMIT A document that is issued by the Planning Director that authorizes the posting, display, repair, change, painting, or erection of a sign or sign structure as being in compliance with signage standards in Section 5.16, Signage. S IGN , A DDRESS A sign identifying the street number and/or name of the occupant of the property on which the sign is located. S IGN , A WNING A sign affixed to or part of an awning supported entirely from the exterior wall of a building and composed on nonrigid materials except for the supporting framework.

S IGN , A WNING -M OUNTED A sign mounted above or under the outside edge of an awning.

September 25, 2018

Morrisville, NC

Page 11-66

Unified Development Ordinance