Morrisville UDO - June 2017 version

Article 5: Development Standards

Section 5.9. Building Configuration and Design

5.9.6. Single-Family Attached, Detached, and Duplex Design Standards

June 23, 2017

Morrisville, NC

Page 5-72

Unified Development Ordinance

Utility Equipment and Downspouts on Facades

Electrical meters and conduits, ventilation panels and screens, and other utility equipment affixed

to a building facade shall be painted to match the adjacent surface.

Downspouts affixed to a building

facade shall be:

Painted to match the primary

color palette or the adjacent

surface; or

Constructed of a natural

material that complements the

structure.

Fenestration

Ground-floor building facades

adjacent to an existing or

proposed public or private street

shall include windows and glass

doors in the following amounts:

50 percent of the ground floor facade elevation for eating and drinking establishments and

retail sales and service uses;

35 percent of the ground floor facade elevation for mixed-use and all other nonresidential

uses;

20 percent of all upper floors.

Required fenestration on the ground-level shall comply with the following standards:

Window or glass door shall cover an average of at least 60 percent of the ground floor facade

height, as measured from the finished grade to the top of the first floor facade; and

Each individual glass window or door shall:

(1)

Provide direct views to the building’s interior;

(2)

Provide direct views to lit display areas extending a minimum of three feet behind the

window; or

(3)

Be tinted to provide the appearance of a window.

These fenestration standards shall not apply to building facades that conceal structured parking.

(Ord. No. 2014-022, 06/24/2014; Ord. No. 2016-001, 05/10/2016)

5.9.6.

Single-Family Attached, Detached, and Duplex Design Standards

Applicability

Except where exempted in accordance with Sectio

n 5.9.6.B, Exemptions,

the standards in Sectio

n 5.9.6.C, Standards,

shall apply to all new bungalow court, pocket neighborhood, single-family detached,

attached, and duplex development in the Town.

Exemptions

The following forms of single-family detached, attached, and duplex development are exempted from

these design standards:

Figur

e 5.9.5.F.3:

Example of Parapet Walls.