Morrisville UDO - June 2017 version

Article 5: Development Standards

Section 5.13. Screening

5.13.2. Screening of Off-Street Loading and Service Areas

June 23, 2017

Morrisville, NC

Page 5-132

Unified Development Ordinance

The design of the proposed building and/or mechanical equipment is equally or more effective

in mitigating the negative impacts of the mechanical equipment as the required screening.

The required screening itself creates a greater negative impact that the mechanical equipment

it is intended to screen.

The deviation is necessary to accommodate existing utility connections or utility easements.

5.13.2.

Screening of Off-Street Loading and Service Areas

All exterior off-street loading areas and services areas (e.g. equipment cleaning areas and delivery

truck areas) shall be located, oriented, and designed to reduce the adverse visual and acoustic impacts

of their use on adjacent streets, sidewalks, and properties to the maximum extent practicable.

Exterior off-street loading and service areas shall be screened from view from adjacent streets,

sidewalks, and properties by any combination of adjacent buildings, durable and sight-obscuring walls

or fences, or dense continuous hedges.

Points of vehicular access into or from the loading or service area need not be screened, provided

they are located, oriented, and designed to minimize direct views into the service or loading area

from adjacent streets and properties.

Screening walls, fences, and hedges shall extend at least six feet above ground level.

Screening walls and fences and shall incorporate materials, colors, and design that are visually

consistent with those of the primary structure on the lot.

(Ord. No. 2015-002, 04/29/2015)

5.13.3.

Location and Screening of Commercial Containers

Applicability

General

Except as otherwise provided in subsectio

n 2

below, all exterior commercial containers—including,

but not limited to, garbage dumpsters and compactors, cardboard receptacles and compactors,

large recyclable containers, grease/oil tanks—shall be located and screened from line of view

from adjacent streets and properties in accordance with the standards in this subsection.

Change in Use

Any change in use of an existing development shall be subject to these location and screening for

commercial container standards to the maximum extent practicable.

Exemptions

These standards shall not apply to commercial containers placed by or on authority of the Town on

a temporary basis or placed for the temporary purpose of disposing of waste generated during

construction (e.g., construction waste bins) or demolition activity on the site.

Location

Commercial containers shall not be placed in the following locations:

Any required tree protection area, buffer, or landscaped area;

Any front, corner side, or side yard in the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) District, or any front

yard or corner side yard in other districts, to the maximum extent practicable;

Any fire lane;

Any off-street parking space;