Morrisville UDO - June 2017 version

Article 5: Development Standards

Section 5.8. Access and Circulation

5.8.7. Bicycle Access and Circulation

Morrisville, NC

June 23, 2017

Unified Development Ordinance

Page 5-59

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.

Bicycle Connectivity

Bikeway Connections to/from Adjoining Development and Developable Land

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.