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Article 2: Administration
Section 2.5. Application-Specific Review Procedures
2.5.7. Site Plan Approval
Morrisville, NC June 23, 2017
Unified Development Ordinance Page 2-45
2.5.7. Site Plan Approval
A. Applicability
The procedure and standards in this subsection apply to the review of applications for Major Site
Plan Approval and Minor Site Plan Approval. Site Plan Approval shall be required for all
development, unless exempted in accordance with subsection below, before submittal of an
application for Construction Plan Approval, unless the applicant elects to submit applications for
both Site Plan Approval and Construction Plan Approval for concurrent review in accordance with
subsectio below.
For developments requiring both Site Plan Approval and Construction Plan Approval, the applicant
may submit an application for Construction Plan Approval concurrently with an application for Site
Plan Approval. In such a case, Town staff shall review the more detailed Construction Plan Approval
application concurrently with the Site Plan Approval application, but the Town Engineer shall not
decide the Construction Plan Approval application until after the Site Plan Approval application is
decided by either the Planning Director or the Town Council, as appropriate.
The following development is exempt from the requirements of this section:
a. Internal construction that does not increase gross floor area or structure height, increase the
density or intensity of use, or affect parking or landscaping requirements;
b. Accessory apartments;
c. Nonhabitable detached accessory structures associated with and located on the same lot as
single-family detached, attached, duplex, or manufactured home dwellings;
d. New manufactured home dwellings; and
e. Additions to single-family detached, attached, and duplex dwellings.
Unless exempted in accordance with subsection 3 above, Major Site Plan Approval shall be
required for development of any principal use designated in Table as
permitted with Major Site Plan Approval by Town Council (unless qualifying for Minor Site Plan
Approval in accordance with Section .
Minor Site Plan Approval shall be required for any of the following developments unless exempted
in accordance with subsection above:
a. Development in accordance with a valid PD Plan/Agreement;
b. Development in accordance with a valid Conceptual Master Plan Approval;
c. Development in accordance with a valid Special Use Permit approval;
d. Development of any principal use designated in Tabl as permitted
with Minor Site Plan Approval by Town staff;
e. Accessory uses and structures;
f. Temporary uses and structures; and
g. Single-family detached, attached, or duplex dwellings where the landowner has executed a
in accordance with Sectio
An application for Major Site Plan Approval or Minor Site Plan Approval, as appropriate, may be
submitted and reviewed concurrently with an application for Construction Plan Approval in
accordance with subsection above, or with applications for a Special Use Permit, Floodplain
Management Permit, Stormwater Permit, Administrative Adjustment, Alternative Equivalent
Compliance, or Site-Specific Development Plan Designation.