Secondary and Cumulative Impacts Master Management Plan

Article 5: Development Standards

Section 5.8. Access and Circulation

5.8.8. Pedestrian Access and Circulation

June 2013

Morrisville, NC

Page 5-60

Unified Development Ordinance - Public Hearing Draft

sidewalk may be provided on the development site, within a dedicated widening of the right-

of-way or a dedicated public easement and running parallel and adjacent to the street.

The Planning Director may require additional sidewalks where warranted by the safety and

welfare of the general public—including, but not limited to:

(1)

Along one side of all driveway entrances to residential and nonresidential parking lots;

(2)

In nonresidential parking lots to maximize pedestrian travel to and from each business;

and

(3)

In parking lots in accordance with Section 5.10.6.E, Pedestrian Walkways through Large

Vehicle Parking Areas.

Additional sidewalks or pedestrian walkways may be required where called for by the

comprehensive plan.

Greenway Paths Required

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

manufactured home dwelling shall incorporate into its required open space any greenway path or

multi-use path called for across the development site by the Parks and Recreation Master Plan. Such

incorporation shall include installation of the path and recording of an associated pedestrian access

easement, if applicable.

Pedestrian Connectivity

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Walkway Connections to/from Adjoining Development and Developable Land

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

with Section

5.8.6.D.4, Public Street Connectivity,

such extension shall include the extension of

any sidewalks 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 walkways 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 also shall provide for the

extension or connection of proposed internal public walkways 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 walkway 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 walkway to an adjoining

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

of a network of public walkways (e.g., the adjoining existing development has no public

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

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

extension or connection.

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This carries forward the requirement in Sec. 5.4.2.5.a of the current Design and Construction Ordinance.

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This new subsection mirrors the connectivity and cross-access standards for vehicles and bicycles. It carries forward the mid-

block pedestrian crosswalk requirement in Art. VII, Sec. 3.4 of the current Subdivision Ordinance, adding the cut-through standard.