Article 5: Development Standards
Section 5.10. Parking and Loading
5.10.6. Off-Street Parking Arrangement and Design
June 23, 2017
Morrisville, NC
Page 5-106
Unified Development Ordinance
degrees to a street shall be marked with a traffic separation stripe running the length of the access.
This requirement does not apply to aisles within parking bays.
(Ord. No. 2015-002, 04/29/2015; Ord. No. 2016-001, 05/10/2016)
E.
Exterior Lighting
Lighted off-street vehicle parking and loading areas shall comply with the standards of
Section 5.15, Exterior Lighting.F.
Landscaping
Except for driveways serving as off-street vehicle parking areas for bungalow court, pocket
neighborhood, single-family detached, duplex, manufactured home, and single-family attached
dwellings, all off-street vehicle parking and loading areas shall comply with the standards of Section
5.12.4, Vehicle Use Area Landscaping.(Ord. No. 2016-001, 05/10/2016)
G.
Maintained In Good Repair
Maintained at All Times
All off-street vehicle parking and loading areas shall be maintained in safe condition and good
repair at all times so as not to constitute a hazard to public safety or a visual or aesthetic nuisance
to surrounding land.
Periodically Restored
All off-street vehicle parking and loading areas shall be periodically painted or otherwise restored
to maintain a clear identification of separate parking spaces or loading spaces.
5.10.6.
Off-Street Parking Arrangement and Design
A.
Consideration of Structured Parking
To conserve land and minimize the negative impacts on the natural and human environment, developers
are encouraged to consider the feasibility of providing structured vehicle parking rather that surface
vehicle parking.
B.
Off-Street Parking Facility Location
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) District and Town Center Districts
a.
For all development located in the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) or a Town Center
districts, all proposed new or additional surface vehicle parking with more than three spaces
shall be located to the rear or side of the development’s principal building(s) to the maximum
extent practicable—and not between the building(s) and abutting street(s). The Planning
Director shall determine the practicability of such location based on, but not limited to,
topography, lot configuration, existing utility locations, watercourses, riparian buffers, natural
rock formations, or other site encumbrances. For already developed sites, the Planning Director
shall also consider the location and orientation of existing buildings, building entrances, parking
areas, and access and circulation patterns.
b.
On determining that it is impracticable to locate all proposed new or additional surface vehicle
parking to the rear or side of the development’s principal building(s), the Planning Director
may allow alternative locations and arrangements of the surface parking—provided that in
addition to vehicle use area screening required by Section
5.12.4,Vehicle Use Area Landscaping,
a Type G, Option 2 streetyard buffer shall be provided between a street and
any surface vehicle parking located between it and the development’s principal building(s).
(See
Section 5.7, Perimeter and Streetyard Buffers.)
(Ord. No. 2015-047, 07/28/2015)