Morrisville Unified Developmemt Ordinance_February 2024

Article 11: Interpretation and Definitions Section 11.5. Terms and Uses Defined 11.4.3. Illuminated Signs

B ED AND B REAKFAST A residence engaged in renting one or more sleeping rooms to persons for periods of less than one week, and providing guess breakfast. B ERM An elongated earthen mound typically designed or constructed on a site to separate, screen, or buffer adjacent uses. B ICYCLE P ARKING S PACE Space designed for the parking of a single bicycle. One bike rack = two bicycle parking spaces and one bike locker = one bicycle parking space. B IKE L ANE A designated area within a street roadway or other vehicular accessway that is reserved for bicycle travel and separated from the rest of the roadway or vehicular accessway by painted lines or other pavement markings.

B IKE L OCKER A locker or box in which a single bicycle is placed and locked in.

B IKE P ATH A designated accessway reserved for bicycle travel that is not within a street roadway or other vehicular accessway. A bike path may be within a greenway or may parallel a street or other vehicular accessway, but are typically separated from them by landscaping.

B IKE R ACK A stand used for mounting and securing two bicycles when not in use.

B IKEWAY Any improved bicycle accessway that is specifically designated as being open to bicycle travel, regardless of whether such facility is designated for the exclusive use of bicycles or is shared with other transportation modes. Bikeways include bike lanes within roadways and off-street bike paths. B IOMANUFACTURING Manufacturing or similar technological processes which may utilize biological or chemical systems to produce, develop, analyze, engineer, or demonstrate functions of proteins, enzymes, high-tech life science outputs, or similar bio-molecules used for life science, bio-agricultural, food, beverage, medical, or pharmaceutical purposes. Accessory uses may include institutional, academic, and hospital uses ancillary to life science uses, research laboratories, temporary indoor storage of produced goods, and warehouse/distribution of produced goods. All manufacturing activities are contained entirely within a building and noise, odor, smoke, pollutants, heat, glare, and vibration resulting from the manufacturing activity are confined entirely within the building. Examples of biomanufacturing include high-tech life science outputs, vaccines, medicines, or similar compounds. Uses similar to those also defined in this section shall not be permitted under this definition. B LOCK A unit of land bounded by streets or by a combination of streets and parks or open space, railroad rights-of-way, waterways or any barrier to the continuity of development.

Morrisville, NC

June 13, 2023

Unified Development Ordinance

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