Secondary and Cumulative Impacts Master Management Plan

Article 5: Development Standards

Section 5.12. Landscaping

5.11.3. Utility Easements

Morrisville, NC

June 2013

Unified Development Ordinance - Public Hearing Draft

Page 5-119

annexation of an area that includes the development site before submitting any further applications

for development of the site.

5.11.3.

Utility Easements

Developments shall provide utility easements to the appropriate utility service provider as necessary to

accommodate the installation and maintenance of utility lines and facilities that are not proposed

within street rights-of-way or access easements. The width and location of easements shall be as

required by the utility service provider, but generally shall be at least 20 feet wide and centered

along or adjacent to lot lines to the greatest extent practicable.

Development within utility easements shall comply with the standards and restrictions of the

appropriate utility service provider(s).

5.11.4.

Solid Waste Removal

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Purpose

The purpose of this section is to minimize the impact that noise associated with the removal of solid

waste may have on adjacent residential development.

Hours of Collection

Solid waste shall not be collected from exterior commercial containers located within a residential

development or within 500 feet of a residential dwelling between the hours of 9:00 PM and 7:00 AM.

Notice of this limitation shall be posted on the gate screening the container.

SECTION 5.12.

LANDSCAPING

5.12.1.

Purpose

It is the purpose of this section to establish minimum standards

for the development, installation, and maintenance of

landscaping that protects and enhances property values, the

environment, and aesthetic qualities in the Town, and otherwise

promotes the public health, safety and general welfare. The

standards are specifically intended to ensure and promote the

planting and maintenance of trees, shrubs, ground cover, and

other landscaping that will:

Mitigate against erosion and sedimentation by stabilizing the soils through root systems that hold and

consolidate soil and other loose earthen materials;

Reduce stormwater runoff and associated costs by intercepting, dispersing, and absorbing rainfall and

slowing down surface flow;

Reduce water pollution by filtering pollutants from stormwater runoff;

Conserve water supplies by allowing more rainfall to stay in the water table and minimizing water use

for landscaping maintenance;

Moderate urban heat island effects by shading buildings and paved surfaces and lowering ambient

temperatures through transpiration;

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This carries forward provisions in Part E (Town Center Code), Art. III (General Development Standards), Sec. 5.4 of the current

Zoning Ordinance.

COMMENTARY

This section consolidates, modifies, and

expands the various landscaping standards

located in Part C, Art. IX (Landscape

Ordinance) of the current Zoning Ordinance as

well as the landscaping standards for parking

lots in Part C, Art. XII (Off-Street Parking and

Loading), and landscaping standards for Town

Center parking lots in Part E, Art. III (General

Development Standards).