Morrisville Unified Development Ordinance - October 2019

Article 3: Zoning Districts Section 3.1. General Provisions 3.1.3. Relationships Between Standards for Overlay Districts and Other Districts

Except as otherwise provided in Section 3.1.4, Development Incentives for Provision of Public Benefits development in a conditional zoning district is subject to the same standards applicable to the parallel base zoning district, as modified by the approved district-specific plans and conditions.

(Ord. No. 2016-001, 05/10/2016)

C. Planned Development Zoning Districts Planned development zoning districts are established by the Town Council’s approval of a Planned Development Rezoning (see Section 2.5.3), which includes district-specific plans and standards set out in a Planned Development (PD) Plan/Agreement. Development in a planned development zoning district is subject to the plans and standards set out or referenced in the approved PD Plan/Agreement. Section 3.7, Planned Development Districts, describes the base purpose of planned development zoning districts and sets out base requirements applicable to all planned development zoning districts. For each type of planned development zoning district, it sets out the district’s purpose, the intensity and dimensional standards to apply in the district or be addressed in the district’s PD Plan/Agreement, and the development and environmental standards to be addressed in the district’s PD Plan/Agreement and the means of modifying them (e.g., through an alternative landscaping plan). D. Overlay Zoning Districts Overlay zoning districts are established initially by the Town Council’s adoption of the Official Zoning Map and subsequently by approval of a General Rezoning (see Section 2.5.3). They are superimposed over one or more underlying base, conditional, or planned development zoning districts. Development in an overlay zoning district is subject to predetermined standards set out or referenced for the district in Section 3.8, Overlay Districts. Such standards supplement, modify, or supersede standards applicable by the underlying base, conditional, or planned development district. Regulations for each overlay zoning district set out the district’s purpose and the supplemental, modified, or superseding standards applicable in the district.

Relationships Between Standards for Overlay Districts and Other Districts

3.1.3.

If the standards for an overlay district expressly conflict with those for an underlying base zoning district, conditional zoning district, planned development district, or another applicable overlay district, the more restrictive standards shall apply.

Development Incentives for Provision of Public Benefits

3.1.4.

A. Purpose The purpose of this section is to provide development incentives for the provision of public benefits in conjunction with development. It does so by authorizing additional allowable uses and less restrictive intensity and dimensional standards for certain conditional zoning districts that provide one or more public benefit not otherwise required by this Ordinance. Such incentives include allowance of certain uses in addition to those allowed in the parallel base zoning district, and an increase in the maximum net density, maximum floor area ratio, maximum lot coverage, and maximum structure height. Such public benefits include: dedication of land or facilities to be used for public parks or greenways; off-site or regional stormwater management; off-site transportation improvements; and/or cultural centers, public plazas, public art, and other community amenities. The extent of public benefits provided is intended to be that necessary to balance and justify the extent of the proposed development incentives.

October 1, 2019

Morrisville, NC

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Unified Development Ordinance