Morrisville Unified Development Ordinance - April 2019

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

Such bike lane shall be provided within the right-of-way of the street unless the Planning Director determines that location within the right-of-way is not practicable or preferable—in which case, the bike path may be provided on the development site, within a dedicated widening of the right- of-way or a dedicated public easement running parallel and adjacent to the thoroughfare or collector street. Bikeway Connections to/from Adjoining Development and Developable Land a. Where a public street is extended to or from a development’s boundary in accordance with Section 5.8.6.D.4, Public Street Connectivity, such extension shall include the extension of any bike lanes within the right-of-way of the street. b. The pedestrian access and circulation system for a development shall incorporate the continuation and connection of public bike paths and associated rights-of-way or easements that have been extended or connected to the boundary of the development site from existing or approved adjoining developments. c. The pedestrian access and circulation system for a development shall provide for the extension or connection of proposed internal public bike paths and associated rights-of-way or easements to those boundaries of the development site that adjoin potentially developable or redevelopable land. d. The Planning Director may waive or modify the requirements or standards for extension of a public bikeway from or to adjoining property on determining that such extension is impractical or undesirable because it would: (1) Require crossing a significant physical barrier or environmentally sensitive area (e.g., railroads, watercourses, floodplains, wetlands); or (2) Require the extension or connection of a proposed public bike path to an adjoining existing development whose design makes it unlikely that the bike path will ever be part of a network of pubic bikeways (e.g., the adjoining existing development has no bike paths or there are no open corridors between the proposed development site and public bikeways in the adjoining development to accommodate a current or future extension or connection. Cross Access Between Adjoining Development To facilitate vehicular access between adjoining developments, new single-family attached, multifamily, nonresidential, and mixed-use development or redevelopment shall comply with the following standards. a. Any internal bicycle circulation system shall be designed to allow for bicycle cross access between it and any internal bicycle circulation system in an adjoining single-family attached, multifamily, nonresidential, and mixed-use development, or to the boundary of adjoining vacant land that is zoned to allow such single-family attached, multifamily, nonresidential, and mixed-use development. b. The Planning Director, in conjunction with the Town Engineer, may waive or modify the requirement for bicycle cross access on determining that such cross access is impractical or undesirable because it would require crossing a significant physical barrier or environmentally sensitive area (e.g., railroad, watercourse, floodplain, wetlands), or would create unsafe conditions. c. Easements allowing cross-access to and from properties served by a bicycle cross-access, along with agreements defining maintenance responsibilities of property owners, shall be recorded with the Register of Deeds for the county in which the properties are located before issuance of a Building Permit for the development.

C. Bicycle Connectivity

Morrisville, NC

April 23, 2019

Unified Development Ordinance

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