Secondary and Cumulative Impacts Master Management Plan

Article 5: Development Standards

Section 5.8. Access and Circulation

5.8.8. Pedestrian Access and Circulation

Morrisville, NC

June 2013

Unified Development Ordinance - Public Hearing Draft

Page 5-59

vacant land that is zoned to allow such single-family attached, multifamily, nonresidential,

and mixed-use development.

The Planning Director, in conjunction with the Town Engineer, may waive or modify the

requirement for bicycle cross access on determining that such cross access is impractical or

undesirable because it would require crossing a significant physical barrier or

environmentally sensitive area (e.g., railroad, watercourse, floodplain, wetlands), or would

create unsafe conditions..

Easements allowing cross-access to and from properties served by a bicycle cross-access,

along with agreements defining maintenance responsibilities of property owners, shall be

recorded with the Register of Deeds for the county in which the properties are located before

issuance of a Building Permit for the development.

Bikeway Design Standards

All bike lanes and bike paths shall be designed and constructed in accordance with standards in the

Engineering Design and Construction Manual.

5.8.8.

Pedestrian Access and Circulation

Required Pedestrian Access

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General Pedestrian Access

All new development except an individual single-family detached, duplex, or manufactured

home dwelling on an existing lot shall be served by a system of pedestrian walkways

(including sidewalks, pedestrian paths, and/or trails) that permits safe, convenient, efficient,

and orderly movement of pedestrians among the following origin and destination points

within the development:

(1)

The primary entrance(s) of principal buildings (or the buildable area of lots, for

subdivisions);

(2)

Off-street parking bays (including any parking serving on-site transit stations or

facilities);

(3)

Any designated or planned bus stops and shelters; and

(4)

Recreation facilities and other common use area and amenities.

The development internal pedestrian circulation system shall also provide safe, convenient,

efficient, and orderly movement of pedestrians between the development‘s internal

pedestrian origin and destination points and adjoining parts of an existing or planned

external, community-wide pedestrian circulation system as well as any adjoining transit

stations, bus stops and shelters, public parks, greenways, schools, community centers, and

shopping areas.

Sidewalks Required

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All new single-family attached, multifamily, nonresidential, and mixed-use developments shall

install sidewalks along both sides of roadways proposed within the development site and

along the entire frontage of the development site with an existing street (unless an existing

sidewalk meeting Town standards is already in place).

Such sidewalks 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—in which case, the

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This subsection expands the general provision in Part C, Art. XIV, Sec. 3.7.A, 4.9.A, and 5.9.A requiring nonresidential

development to have sidewalks between streets, parking areas, and buildings to provide safe, direct, and convenient access.

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This carries forward the sidewalk requirements in Sec. 5.4.2.4 of the current Design and Construction Ordinance. It adds the

provisions allowing flexibility if the right-of-way is insufficient to provide a sidewalk and referencing adopted pedestrian plans.