Morrisville Unified Development Ordinance - April 2019

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

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)

Table 5.10.6.C: Minimum Stacking Lane Distance for Off-Street Parking Facility Entrance Driveways

Number of Off-Street Parking Spaces [1]

Minimum Stacking Lane Distance (feet) [2,3]

1 – 49

25

50 – 249

50

250 – 499

100

500 or more

100 + 15 ft for every additional 50 spaces beyond 500

Notes: [1] Entrances into parking structures may be credited towards the stacking lane distance requirement provided the parking structure entrance is accessed from a development driveway and not a primary drive aisle. [2] Stacking lane distance is measured from the intersection of the driveway with the street right-of-way, along the centerline of the stacking lane, to its intersection with the centerline of the first entrance into a parking area or other internal intersecting driveway. [3] If the parking area is served by more than one entrance driveway, the Planning Director can approve a reduction or increase in the stacking distance for any one entrance driveway in order to allow the minimum requirement to be allocated to other driveway(s). The sum of all driveways must meet or exceed the minimum stacking lane distance requirement in this table. (Ord. No. 2016-001, 05/10/2016)

April 23, 2019

Morrisville, NC

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Unified Development Ordinance