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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 5-61
2.
Pedestrian Cut-Throughs
a.
On determining that such connection is necessary to provide convenient pedestrian access
within a development or to adjacent schools, transit facilities, recreation facilities, or
commercial developments, the Planning Director may require pedestrian walkways to be
provided between the ends of cul-de-sacs and the nearest existing or proposed public
walkway (e.g., sidewalk, pedestrian path, or trail). (See Figure
5.8.8.C.2:Pedestrian cut-
through at end of cul-de-sac.)
b.
On determining that such connection is necessary to provide convenient pedestrian access
within a development or to adjacent schools, transit stations, recreation facilities, or
commercial developments, the Planning Director may require a pedestrian walkway to be
provided through approximately the centers of blocks more than 900 feet long. Within the
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), pedestrian cut-throughs may be required at least every
200 feet of block length.
c.
These pedestrian cut-through walkways shall be located within a right-of-way or a public
access easement within common open space. The right-of-way or easement shall be at least
20 feet wide.
Figur
e 5.8.8.C.2:Pedestrian cut-through at end of cul-de-sac.
3.
Cross Access Between Adjoining Development
To facilitate pedestrian access between adjoining developments, new single-family attached,
multifamily, nonresidential, and mixed-use development shall comply with the following
standards:
a.
The internal pedestrian circulation system shall be designed to allow for pedestrian walkway
cross-access between the development‘s buildings and parking areas and those in an
adjoining single-family attached, multifamily, nonresidential, and mixed-use development, or