Morisville Unified Development Ordinance_ September 2023-2

Article 5: Development Standards Section 5.7. Perimeter and Streetyard Buffers 5.7.3. Required Buffer Type

f.

Street; or

g. An existing residential dwelling or development.

2. Transit Oriented Development (TOD)

Development internal to the Transit Oriented Development (TOD) district shall only be required to plant shade trees at a minimum of every forty (40) feet within the required sidewalk.

(Ord. No. 2016-001, 05/10/2016)

Required Buffer Type

5.7.3.

Table 5.7.3, Required Buffer Type specifies the type of perimeter or streetyard buffer that a new development shall provide between it and an adjoining property or street, based on the proposed use type on the development site and the existing use type on the adjoining property, the zoning district in which abutting vacant property is located, or the classification of an adjoining street. The type of buffer to be provided is indicated by a letter corresponding to one of the buffer types depicted in Table 5.7.3, Required Buffer Type. Existing healthy trees 12” in c aliper or larger shall be saved and utilized as part of any streetyard buffer if located within the area of proposed streetyard buffer. For both streetyward and perimeter buffers if an existing contiguous line of mature trees the width of required option 1 perimeter or streetyard buffer remains undisturbed then no additional buffer requirements are required. Additional plantings may be required by the Planning Director if the existing trees do not meet the screening standards which the buffer is intended to normally provide. Buffers utilizing existing trees are intended to provide a landscape buffer and thus not listed in the priority order for tree preservation. These trees shall count towards the tree preservation minimum requirement only if the preserved tree canopy meets the requirement(s) of the priority order.

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Morrisville, NC

June 13, 2023

Unified Development Ordinance

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