Morrisville UDO - June 2017 version

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

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:

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).

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.

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.

The perimeter landscaping strip shall be located on the same property as the vehicle use area.

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.