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5. CORRIDOR COMMERCIAL

A. Function

i. Provide commercial areas located along transportation corridors to meet local and

regional needs for sale of goods and services.

ii. Ensure that streets, buildings, structures and sites located along the primary transporta-

tion corridors and gateways to Morrisville present a positive visual image of the com-

munity and support Morrisville’s small town character.

B. Preferred Uses

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residential (if located outside the Airport Overlay district).

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C. General Policies + Development Character

i. Design standards and signage requirements for this district should be consistent with

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image of the community as expressed through architectural guidelines and appear-

ance standards for development and redevelopment.

iii. Retail development within this designation should establish and maintain a pedestrian

scale, walkable shopping experience offering such features as entrances immediately

adjacent to sidewalks, pedestrian amenities, outdoor eating areas, screened parking,

on street parking (where feasible), plazas and open spaces, and a variety of small retail

shops and services.

iv. New development should avoid large expanses of blank walls, should provide frequent

street level entries, and should provide sidewalk amenities such as street furniture, seat-

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articulated façades, appropriately scaled signs and lighting, and awnings or other

weather protection to encourage pedestrian activity.

vi. Parking and vehicle drives should be located away from building entrances, and not

located between a building entrance and the street. Surface parking should be ori-

ented behind or to the side of a building, accessed from an alley when possible, and

not on street corners.

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plains and ponds to minimize the environmental impacts of new development and

provide green space.

viii.Parking lots should be screened from adjacent street frontages and residential uses.

ix. Vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian links should extend into the surrounding develop-

ment.

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buildings, and contribute to the sense

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mounted and street level signage is

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for the pedestrian and improve security through

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doors help create an inviting environment for

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street wall and welcoming pedestrians along

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scaled to the pedestrian (not the automobile,)

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attractive streetscape and should be consistent

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of the policies and development character

featured in the proposed district, but could

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buildings and additional landscaping to

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encouraged

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