Morrisville Unified Development Ordinance - April 2019

Article 5: Development Standards Section 5.8. Access and Circulation 5.8.7. Bicycle Access and Circulation

Design and Layout Required stacking spaces are subject to the following design and layout standards: a. Stacking spaces shall be a minimum of ten feet wide and 20 feet long. b. Stacking spaces shall not impede on-site or off-site vehicular traffic movements or movements into or out of off-street parking spaces. Stacking spaces shall not impede on-site or off-site bicycle or pedestrian traffic movements. c.

d. Stacking spaces shall be separated from other internal driveways by raised medians that are at least four feet wide if deemed necessary for traffic movement and safety by the Planning Director. Figure 5.8.6.I.1: Stacking spaces for a drive-through restaurant.

Bicycle Access and Circulation

5.8.7.

A. Required Bicycle Access All new development except individual lot development of a single-family detached, duplex, or manufactured home dwelling on an existing lot (i.e., including subdivisions for such dwellings) shall be served by an internal bicycle circulation system (including shared roadway lanes, widened outside roadway lanes, bike lanes, shoulders, and/or separate bike paths) that permits safe, convenient, efficient, and orderly movement of bicyclists among the following origin and destination points within the development. a. Bicycle parking facilities or areas near the primary entrance(s) of principal buildings (or the buildable area of lots, for subdivisions); The development’s internal bicycle circulation system shall also permit safe, convenient, efficient, and orderly movement of vehicles between the development’s internal origin and destination points and adjoining parts of an existing or planned external, community-wide bicycle circulation system as well as any adjoining transit stations, bus stops and shelters, public parks, greenways, schools, community centers, and shopping areas. B. Bike Lanes Required All new development except individual lot development of a single-family detached, duplex, or manufactured home dwelling on an existing lot (i.e., including subdivisions for such dwellings) shall provide bike lanes within the development site and along the entire frontage of the development site with an existing street where bikes lanes are called for by the Comprehensive Plan or other Town-adopted plans addressing transportation (unless an existing bike lane meeting Town standards is already in place). b. Any designated or planned bus stops and shelters; and c. Recreation facilities and other common use area and amenities.

April 23, 2019

Morrisville, NC

Page 5-58

Unified Development Ordinance