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Article 5: Development Standards
Section 5.8. Access and Circulation
5.8.8. Pedestrian Access and Circulation
Morrisville, NC June 23, 2017
Unified Development Ordinance Page 5-61
B. Greenway Paths Required
All new development except individual lot development of a single-family detached, duplex, or
manufactured home dwelling on an existing lot (i.e., including subdivisions for such dwellings) shall
incorporate into its required open space any greenway path or multi-use path called for across the
development site by the Comprehensive Plan. Such incorporation shall include installation of the path
and recording of an associated pedestrian access easement, if applicable.
(Ord. No. 2014-022, 06/24/2014)
C. Pedestrian Connectivity
Walkway Connections to/from Adjoining Development and Developable Land
a. Where a public street is extended to or from a development site’s boundary in accordance
with Section such extension shall include the extension of
any sidewalks 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 walkways 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 also shall provide for the
extension or connection of proposed internal public walkways 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 walkway 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 walkway to an adjoining existing
development whose design makes it unlikely that the walkway will ever be part of a
network of public walkways (e.g., the adjoining existing development has no public
walkways or there are no open corridors between the proposed development site and
public walkways in the adjoining development to accommodate a current or future
extension or connection.
Pedestrian Cut-Throughs
a. On determining that such connection is necessary to provide convenient pedestrian access within
a development or to adjacent schools, transit facilities, recreation facilities, or commercial
developments, the Planning Director may require pedestrian walkways to be provided
between the ends of cul-de-sacs and the nearest existing or proposed public walkway (e.g.,
sidewalk, pedestrian path, or trail). (See Figur Pedestrian cut-through at end of cul-
de-sac.)
b. On determining that such connection is necessary to provide convenient pedestrian access within
a development or to adjacent schools, transit stations, recreation facilities, or commercial
developments, the Planning Director may require a pedestrian walkway to be provided
through approximately the centers of blocks more than 900 feet long. Within the Transit-
Oriented Development (TOD), pedestrian cut-throughs may be required at least every 200
feet of block length.
c. These pedestrian cut-through walkways shall be located within a right-of-way or a public
access easement within common open space. The easement shall be at least 20 feet wide.