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Article 4: Use Standards
Section 4.2. Principal Uses
4.2.4. Principal Use Table
June 23, 2017 Morrisville, NC
Page 4-2 Unified Development Ordinance
Use Types
Use Types identify specific principal land uses whose characteristics are considered to fall within
the various use categories. For example, bars, lounges, brewpubs, and restaurants are use types
within the Eating and Drinking Use Category. Each use type is defined in
While the Residential and Institutional use classifications tend to include relatively
specific and well–defined use types, the Commercial and Industrial use classifications tend to include
broader uses types, reflecting the wider range and ever-growing variety of commercial and
industrial uses existing in the community.
B. Classifying principal uses in this manner provides a systematic basis for determining whether a particular
land use not expressly listed should be considered a form or example of a listed principal use, and for
addressing future additions to the Principal Use Tables. See
for a description of the use classification system and procedures for using it to interpret
unlisted uses.
4.2.4. Principal Use Table
A. Structure of Principal Use Table
Designation of Uses
The Principal Use Table uses the following abbreviations to designate whether and how a principal
use is allowed in a particular zoning district:
P
A “P” under a base zoning district column indicates that the use is allowable as a principal use in the district
without a permit or with Minor Site Plan Approval in accordance with Sectio subject
to any referenced use-specific standards and all other applicable regulations of this Ordinance.
P*
A “P*” under a base zoning district column indicates that the use is allowable as a principal use in the district
with Major Site Plan Approval in accordance with Section unless the development
qualifies for Minor Site Approval in accordance with Sectio because of its lower intensity or prior
approval, subject to any referenced use-specific standards and all other applicable regulations of this
Ordinance.
S
An “S” under a base zoning district column indicates that the use is allowable as a principal use in the district
only on approval of a Special Use Permit in accordance with Section and subject to
any referenced use-specific standards and all other applicable regulations of this Ordinance.
C
A “C” under a base zoning district indicates that the use is allowable as a principal use in the parallel
conditional zoning district in addition to those uses also allowed in the base zoning district, subject to any
referenced use-specific standards and all other applicable regulations of this Ordinance, and any limiting plans
and conditions proposed and approved as part of the Conditional Rezoning establishing the conditional zoning
district.
A
An “A” under a planned development (PD) district column indicates that the use is allowable as a principal use in
the district only if the PD Plan/Agreement approved for the district expressly identifies the use type as allowed,
and subject to any referenced use-specific standards and all other applicable regulations of this Ordinance.
A blank cell under a base or planned development zoning district column indicates that the use is prohibited as
a principal use in the district.
X
An “X” under an overlay district column indicates that the use is prohibited as a principal use in the overlay
district, irrespective of whether it is allowed by the underlying base district. This designation applies only to
overlay zoning districts.
Reference to Use-Specific Standards
A particular use category or use type allowable as a principal use in a zoning district may be
subject to additional standards that are specific to the particular use. The applicability of such use-
specific standards is noted in the last column of the Principal Use Table (“Use-Specific Standards”)
through a reference to standards in Sectio
B. Multiple Principal Uses
A development may include a single principal use with one or more accessory uses that are customarily
incidental and subordinate to the principal use (e.g., home occupation as accessory to a dwelling, or
administrative offices as accessory to a school, retail sales, or manufacturing use). A development may