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Article 5: Development Standards
Section 5.10. Parking and Loading
5.10.3. Off-Street Vehicle and Bicycle Parking Space Requirements
June 23, 2017 Morrisville, NC
Page 5-102 Unified Development Ordinance
Establish the minimum off-street parking space requirement by reference to standard parking
resources published by the National Parking Association or the American Planning Association; or
Establish the minimum off-street parking space requirement based on a parking demand study
prepared by the applicant that estimates parking demand based on the recommendations of the
Institute of Traffic Engineers (ITE) or other acceptable source of parking demand data, and that
includes relevant data collected from uses or combinations of uses that are the same or comparable
to the proposed use in terms of density, scale, bulk, area, type of activity, and location.
C. Requirements for Developments with Multiple Uses
Developments containing more than one principal institutional or commercial use shall provide vehicle
parking spaces in an amount equal to the total of the requirements applied to all individual principal
uses. This provision shall not limit the opportunity to reduce the minimum number of required off-street
vehicle parking spaces through approval of an alternative parking plan that justifies the feasibility of
shared parking (See Section )
D. Maximum Number of Off-Street Vehicle Parking Spaces
For major and neighborhood shopping center use types listed in
the number of off-street vehicle parking spaces shall not
exceed 125 percent of the minimum number of parking spaces required, except within a parking deck
or garage or as may be allowed through approval of an alternative parking plan in accordance with
Sectio
E. Compact Vehicle Parking Spaces
Up to 20 percent of the required number of off-street vehicle parking spaces may be designed to
accommodate compact vehicles.
Compact vehicle parking spaces may only be used where the parking angle is 90 degrees.
Compact vehicle parking spaces shall consist as one or more group(s) of contiguous spaces located
where they can be readily identified by vehicle drivers through signage and/or pavement marking.
F. Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Stations
Up to ten percent of the required number of off-street vehicle parking spaces may be used and
designated as electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, subject to the use-specific standards in Section
4.3.5 and subsectio below. Such spaces may include one required accessible parking space (see
subsectio . The Planning Director shall have authority to approve the use and designation
of additional required parking spaces as electric vehicle charging stations, provided that such
additional spaces shall count as only one-half of a parking space when computing the minimum
number of parking spaces required.
Vehicle parking spaces used as electric vehicle charging stations shall consist as one or more
group(s) of contiguous spaces located where they can be readily identified by electric vehicle
drivers (e.g., through directional signage), but where their use by non-electric vehicles is
discouraged (e.g., not in locations most convenient to the entrances of the buildings served).
G. On-Street Vehicle Parking
Except as authorized in the list below, streets shall not be used to satisfy the off-street vehicle parking
standards of this section.
Off-street parking is part of an alternative parking plan in Section
or
The road is specifically designed to accommodate parallel parking on local residential streets with
landscaped chokers or other similar delineation methods approved by the Planning Director.
(Ord. No. 2015-002, 04/29/2015)