Article 5: Development Standards
Section 5.12. Landscaping
5.12.4. Vehicle Use Area Landscaping
June 23, 2017
Morrisville, NC
Page 5-126
Unified Development Ordinance
C.
Perimeter Landscaping
Where a vehicle use area is within 50 feet of and visible from a street, other development (except
another vehicle use area), or vacant property, perimeter landscaping shall be provided and maintained
within the strip of land between the vehicle use area and the adjacent street right-of-way or easement
or property line in accordance with the following standards, except where such strip is crossed by an
authorized vehicular or pedestrian accessway or utility easement. (See Figure
5.12.4.C:Perimeter
Landscaping.)
Location and Configuration
Perimeter landscaping shall be located on the same property as the vehicle use area and placed
to assure visibility and safety of pedestrians within the vehicle use area.
Composition
Perimeter landscaping shall be comprised of any combination of trees, evergreen shrubs, berms,
walls, and fences that form a continuous screen along the perimeter of the vehicle use area that
will be at least 75 percent opaque within one year and at least 30 inches above ground level at
the time of installation, subject to the following standards:
a.
Screening within a perimeter
landscaping strip between a
vehicle use area and a street
shall be designed to screen the
headlights of vehicles in the
vehicle use area yet allow
security surveillance of vehicle
use areas from the adjacent
street. Ways to achieve this
include, but are not limited to,
limiting the height of the largely
opaque screening to three feet
or using landscape features
above a height of three feet
that are at least 75 percent
transparent (e.g., see-through
metal railing or a trellis).
b.
Screening within a perimeter
landscaping strip between a
vehicle use area and a street
shall allow compliance with all
applicable sight distance and
intersection sight distance area
standards in the Engineering
and Design and Construction
Manual.
c.
The perimeter landscaping strip
between a vehicle use area and
a street shall not be located
within any future street right-of-
way whose boundary is delineated or otherwise established by the Comprehensive Plan.
d.
The perimeter landscaping strip shall be located on the same property as the vehicle use area.
e.
Any planted trees or shrubs shall comply with the standards in Sectio
n 5.12.3.A, New Planting Standards.Figur
e 5.12.4.C:Perimeter Landscaping.