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Article 11: Interpretation and Definitions
Section 11.5. Terms and Uses Defined
11.4.2. Exceptions and Variations
June 23, 2017
Morrisville, NC
Page 11-58
Unified Development Ordinance
P
LACE OF
W
ORSHIP
, C
OMMUNITY OR
N
EIGHBORHOOD
A structure, together with its accessory buildings and uses, where people regularly assemble to conduct
religious worship, ceremonies, rituals, and related education. The structure and its accessory buildings
and uses are maintained and controlled by a religious body. Places of worship include chapels, churches,
mosques, shrines, synagogues, tabernacles, temples, and other similar religious places of assembly.
Accessory uses may include administrative offices, classrooms, meeting rooms, and cooking and eating
facilities. A place of worship may be combined with other uses that generally exist as principal uses—
e.g., day care center, school, cemetery, or private recreational/entertainment facility. Such uses are
treated as principal uses and subject to the standards and limitations applicable to such uses, and are
included in the total gross floor area if located on the same lot..
A community place of worship is a place of worship where the total gross floor area exceeds 8,000
square feet. A neighborhood place of worship is a place of worship where the total gross floor area is
no more than 8,000 square feet.
P
LACE
S
IGN
See Sign, Place.
P
LANNED
U
NIT
D
EVELOPMENT
A tract of land under individual, corporate, firm, partnership, or association ownership, or under common
control evidenced by duly recorded contracts or agreements, planned and developed as an integral
unit in a single development operation or in a definitely programmed series of development operations
in accordance with a master land use plan and detailed engineering and architectural plans.
P
LANNING AND
Z
ONING
B
OARD
See Sectio
n 2.2.3.P
LANNING
D
IRECTOR
The Director of the Morrisville, North Carolina Planning Department. See Section
2.2.1.A.P
LAT
A map or plan of a parcel of land which is to be, or which has been, subdivided.
P
OCKET
N
EIGHBORHOOD
A cohesive development of at least four single-family detached dwellings located around a common
open space and served by either on-street, on-site, or shared off-street parking. Each home fronts the
common open space, and is configured with a front porch and windows on the front facade.
P
ODIUM
P
ARKING
Parking garage that is completely enclosed at the ground level of a building, beneath the building’s
occupied levels. Podium parking is generally designed with an open floor plan and a single access point
to serve multiple users.
P
OLITICAL
S
IGN
See Sign, Political.
P
OLLUTION
Man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological, thermal, and/or radiological
integrity of water.