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Article 5: Development Standards
Section 5.12. Landscaping
5.12.4. Vehicle Use Area Landscaping
Morrisville, NC
June 2013
Unified Development Ordinance - Public Hearing Draft
Page 5-125
crossed by an authorized vehicular or
pedestrian accessway or utility easement.
(See
Figure
5.12.4.C:Perimeter
Landscaping.)
1.
Location and Configuration
Perimeter landscaping shall be
located on the same property as the
vehicle use area and placed to
assure visibility and safety of
pedestrians within the vehicle use
area.
2.
Composition
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Perimeter landscaping shall be
comprised of any combination of
trees, evergreen shrubs, berms,
walls, and fences that form a
continuous screen along the
perimeter of the vehicle use area
that will be at least 75 percent
opaque within one year and at least
30 inches above ground level at the
time of installation, subject to the
following standards:
a.
Screening within a perimeter
landscaping strip between a
vehicle use area and a street
shall be designed to screen the
headlights of vehicles in the
vehicle use area yet allow security surveillance of vehicle use areas from the adjacent street.
Ways to achieve this include, but are not limited to, limiting the height of the largely opaque
screening to three feet or using landscape features above a height of three feet that are at
least 75 percent transparent (e.g., see-through metal railing or a trellis).
b.
Screening within a perimeter landscaping strip between a vehicle use area and a street shall
allow compliance with all applicable sight distance and intersection sight distance area
standards in the Engineering and Design and Construction Manual.
c.
The perimeter landscaping strip between a vehicle use area and a street shall not be located
within any future street right-of-way whose boundary is delineated or otherwise established
by the comprehensive plan.
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d.
The perimeter landscaping strip shall be located on the same property as the vehicle use
area.
e.
Any planted trees or shrubs shall comply with the standards in Section
5.12.3.A, New Planting Standards.f.
Any wall or fence shall comply with the standards in Section 5.14, Fences and Walls.
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The current vehicle use area screening standards do not specify how opaque the screening must be; the general parking lot
screening standards require at least 90% opacity; and the Town Center parking lot screening standards require at least 75%
opacity. We propose using the 75% standard.
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This new standard is intended to ensure perimeter landscaping strips are not destroyed by a planned future road widening.
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This references new fence and wall standards in 0.
Figur
e 5.12.4.C:Perimeter Landscaping.