Secondary and Cumulative Impacts Master Management Plan

Article 5: Development Standards

Section 5.8. Access and Circulation

5.8.7. Bicycle Access and Circulation

June 2013

Morrisville, NC

Page 5-58

Unified Development Ordinance - Public Hearing Draft

Bike Lanes Required

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All new development except individual lot development of a single-family detached, duplex, or

manufactured home dwelling (i.e., including subdivisions for such dwellings) shall provide bike

lanes within the development site and along the entire frontage of the development site with an

existing street where bikes lanes are called for by the comprehensive plan or other Town-

adopted plans addressing transportation (unless an existing bike lane meeting Town standards is

already in place).

Such bike lane shall be provided within the right-of-way of the street unless the Planning Director

determines that location within the right-of-way is not practicable or preferable—in which case,

the bike path may be provided on the development site, within a dedicated widening of the

right-of-way or a dedicated public easement running parallel and adjacent to the thoroughfare

or collector street.

Bicycle Connectivity

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Bikeway Connections to/from Adjoining Development and Developable Land

Where a public street is extended to or from a development‘s boundary in accordance with

Section

5.8.6.D.4, Public Street Connectivity,

such extension shall include the extension of any

bike lanes within the right-of-way of the street.

The pedestrian access and circulation system for a development shall incorporate the

continuation and connection of public bike paths and associated rights-of-way or easements

that have been extended or connected to the boundary of the development site from existing

or approved adjoining developments.

The pedestrian access and circulation system for a development shall provide for the

extension or connection of proposed internal public bike paths and associated rights-of-way

or easements to those boundaries of the development site that adjoin potentially

developable or redevelopable land.

The Planning Director may waive or modify the requirements or standards for extension of a

public bikeway from or to adjoining property on determining that such extension is

impractical or undesirable because it would:

(1)

Require crossing a significant physical barrier or environmentally sensitive area (e.g.,

railroads, watercourses, floodplains, wetlands); or

(2)

Require the extension or connection of a proposed public bike path to an adjoining

existing development whose design makes it unlikely that the bike path will ever be part

of a network of pubic bikeways (e.g., the adjoining existing development has no bike

paths or there are no open corridors between the proposed development site and

public bikeways in the adjoining development to accommodate a current or future

extension or connection.

Cross Access Between Adjoining Development

To facilitate vehicular access between adjoining developments, new single-family attached,

multifamily, nonresidential, and mixed-use development or redevelopment shall comply with the

following standards.

Any internal bicycle circulation system shall be designed to allow for bicycle cross access

between it and any internal bicycle circulation system in an adjoining single-family attached,

multifamily, nonresidential, and mixed-use development, or to the boundary of adjoining

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This new provision reflects the Transportation Plan‘s recommendation that bike lanes be provided on both sides of major roads

(p. 32). The second provision is added to recognize situations where there may be insufficient right-of-way for a bike lane.

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This new subsection mirrors the connectivity and cross-access standards for vehicles.