Morrisville Unified Development Ordinance - October 2019

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

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.)

b. On determining that it is infeasible to locate 50 fifty percent or less of the overall required parking between the development’s principal building(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 requirements required by Section 5.12.4, Vehicle Use Area Landscaping, a Type I, 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.) Except for driveways serving as off-street vehicle parking areas for bungalow court, pocket neighborhood, single-family detached, duplex, manufactured home, and single-family attached dwellings, the length of a driveway serving as the vehicular entrance to any off-street surface vehicle parking area shall comply with the minimum stacking lane distance established in Table 5.10.6.C: Minimum Stacking Lane Distance for Off-Street Parking Facility Entrance Driveways or any stacking lane distance recommended by a transportation impact analysis prepared for the development in accordance with Section 5.8.6.B, Transportation Impact Analysis. (See Figure 5.10.6.C: Stacking lane for an off-street parking facility entrance driveway.) C. Vehicle Stacking Space for Parking Area Entrance Driveways (Ord. No. 2015-002, 04/29/2015; Ord. No. 2015-047, 07/28/2015)

Figure 5.10.6.B.4: Fifty percent of the overall between the buildings and abutting streets.

(Ord. No. 2015-002, 04/29/2015; Ord. No. 2016-001, 05/10/2016)

Morrisville, NC

October 1, 2019

Unified Development Ordinance

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