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Article 5: Development Standards
Section 5.8. Access and Circulation
5.8.6. Vehicular Access and Circulation
Morrisville, NC
June 2013
Unified Development Ordinance - Public Hearing Draft
Page 5-51
Figure
5.8.6.D.2:Public Street Connections to and from Adjoining Development.
5.
Cross Access Between Adjoining Development
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To facilitate vehicular access between adjoining developments, encourage shared parking, and
minimize access points along streets, new single-family attached, multifamily, nonresidential, and
mixed-use development or redevelopment shall comply with the following standards:
a.
The internal vehicular circulation system shall be designed to allow for vehicular cross-access
between the development‘s common vehicle use areas and common vehicle use areas in an
adjoining single-family attached, multifamily, nonresidential, or mixed-use development, or to
the boundary of adjoining vacant land zoned to allow single-family attached, multifamily,
nonresidential or mixed-use development. (See Figure
5.8.6.D.5:Cross-access between
parking areas of adjoining developments.)
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Sec. 5.2.6 of the current Design and Construction Ordinance requires that efforts be made to provide cross-access between
adjacent nonresidential developments. We propose strengthening this cross access requirement and applying it to multifamily,
single-family attached, and mixed-use development as well as nonresidential development. This subsection adds authorization for
a waiver of the cross access requirement where a cross access would be physically impracticable, undesirable, or unsafe.