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Article 3: Zoning Districts
Section 3.1. General Provisions
3.1.3. Relationships Between Standards for Overlay Districts and Other Districts
June 2013
Morrisville, NC
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Unified Development Ordinance - Public Hearing Draft
C.
Planned Development Zoning Districts
1.
Planned development zoning districts are established by the Town Council’s approval of a Planned
Development Rezoning (see Section 2.5.3), which includes district-specific plans and standards set out
in a Planned Development (PD) Plan/Agreement.
2.
Development in a planned development zoning district is subject to the plans and standards set out or
referenced in the approved PD Plan/Agreement.
3.
Section 3.7, Planned Development Districts, describes the base purpose of planned development
zoning districts and sets out base requirements applicable to all planned development zoning districts.
For each type of planned development zoning district, it sets out the district’s purpose, the intensity
and dimensional standards to apply in the district or be addressed in the district’s PD
Plan/Agreement, and the development and environmental standards to be addressed in the district’s
PD Plan/Agreement and the means of modifying them (e.g., through an alternative landscaping plan).
D.
Overlay Zoning Districts
1.
Overlay zoning districts are established initially by the Town Council’s adoption of the Official Zoning
Map and subsequently by approval of a General Rezoning (see Section 2.5.3). They are
superimposed over one or more underlying base, conditional, or planned development zoning
districts.
2.
Development in an overlay zoning district is subject to predetermined standards set out or referenced
for the district in Section 3.8, Overlay Districts. Such standards supplement, modify, or supersede
standards applicable by the underlying base, conditional, or planned development district.
3.
Regulations for each overlay zoning district set out the district’s purpose and the supplemental,
modified, or superseding standards applicable in the district.
3.1.3.
Relationships Between Standards for Overlay Districts and Other Districts
If the standards for an overlay district expressly conflict with those for an underlying base zoning district,
conditional zoning district, planned development district, or another applicable overlay district, the more
restrictive standards shall apply.
3.1.4.
Development Incentives Option
A.
Purpose
The purpose of this section is to provide development incentives for the provision of public benefits in
conjunction with development. It does so by authorizing additional allowable uses and less restrictive
intensity and dimensional standards for certain conditional zoning districts that provide one or more public
benefit not otherwise required by this Ordinance. Such incentives include allowance of certain uses in
addition to those allowed in the parallel base zoning district, and an increase in the maximum net density,
maximum floor area ratio, maximum lot coverage, and maximum structure height. Such public benefits
include: dedication of land or facilities to be used for public parks or greenways; off-site or regional
stormwater management; off-site transportation improvements; and/or cultural centers, public plazas,
public art, and other community amenities. The extent of public benefits provided is intended to be that
necessary to balance and justify the extent of the proposed development incentives.
B.
Conditional Rezoning Application and Review
1.
If the applicant for a Conditional Rezoning proposes use of the development incentives authorized by
this section, the Conditional Rezoning application shall specify the additional allowable uses and the
less restrictive intensity and dimensional standards proposed to be applicable to district development
(see subsection C below) and the compensating public benefits proposed to be provided (see
subsection D below).