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Article 5: Development Standards
Section 5.8. Access and Circulation
5.8.6. Vehicular Access and Circulation
Morrisville, NC
June 23, 2017
Unified Development Ordinance
Page 5-51
(4)
Large delivery trucks shall be provided access to off-street loading spaces.
(5)
Small delivery trucks, service vehicles, and passenger motor vehicles shall be provided
access to points within 100 feet of a single-family detached, duplex, or manufactured
home dwelling, and to the off-street parking spaces serving any other development.
b.
The development’s internal system of vehicular accessways shall also permit safe, convenient,
efficient, and orderly movement of vehicles between the development’s internal origin and
destination points and the external roadway system and adjacent transit stations.
(Ord. No. 2015-002, 04/29/2015)
Required Multiple Means of Vehicular Access
a.
A residential development shall provide each building or facility at least two separate means
of vehicular access, which provide an outlet to two different public streets, meeting Fire Code
requirements for fire apparatus access roads if the development includes:
(1)
More than 30 single-family detached (including bungalow court and pocket
neighborhood), duplex, or manufactured home dwellings, or subdivision lots designed to
contain more than 30 such dwellings; or
(2)
More than 60 single-family attached or multifamily dwelling units.
b.
A nonresidential or mixed-use development shall provide:
(1)
At least two separate means of vehicular access to each building or facility that has a
height exceeding 30 feet or three stories; or
(2)
At least two separate means of vehicular access, which provide an outlet to two different
public streets, to each building or facility that has a gross floor area exceeding 62,000
square feet.
c.
Where two means of vehicular access are required, the distance between the points where such
access enters the development site shall be at least ½ the maximum overall diagonal dimension
of the development site.
d.
The required two means of vehicular access shall be provided before issuance of a Building
Permit authorizing the 31st single-family detached (including bungalow court and pocket
neighborhood), duplex, or manufactured home dwelling, or the 61st single-family attached or
multifamily dwelling unit.
e.
The Planning Director, after consulting with the Fire Chief, may waive these requirements on
determining provision of a second access is impractical due to topography, natural features,
cultural resources, or the configuration of adjacent developments and/or the dwellings,
buildings, or facilities are equipped with an approved automatic sprinkler system.
Ord. No. 2016-001, 05/10/2016)
Public Street Connectivity
a.
The vehicular access and circulation for a development shall incorporate the continuation and
connection of public street roadways and associated rights-of-way that have been extended
or connected to the boundary of the development site from existing or approved adjoining
developments. (See Figure
5.8.6.D.4:Public Street Connections to and from Adjoining
Development.)
b.
The vehicular access and circulation for a development shall provide for the extension or
connection of proposed internal public street roadways and associated rights-of-way to those
boundaries of the development site that adjoin potentially developable or redevelopable
property whenever such extensions or connections are or may be necessary to ensure that the
development site or the adjoining property will have: