Morrisville Unified Development Ordinance - April 2019

Article 5: Development Standards Section 5.12. Landscaping 5.12.4. Vehicle Use Area Landscaping

Composition Perimeter landscaping shall be comprised of any combination of trees, evergreen shrubs, berms, walls, and fences that form a continuous screen along the perimeter of the vehicle use area that will be at least 75 percent opaque within one year and at least 30 inches above ground level at the time of installation, subject to the following standards:

a. Screening within a perimeter landscaping strip between a vehicle use area and a street shall be designed to screen the headlights of vehicles in the vehicle use area yet allow security surveillance of vehicle use areas from the adjacent street. Ways to achieve this include, but are not limited to, limiting the height of the largely opaque screening to three feet or using landscape features above a height of three feet that are at least 75 percent transparent (e.g., see-through metal railing or a trellis). b. Screening within a perimeter landscaping strip between a vehicle use area and a street shall allow compliance with all applicable sight distance and intersection sight distance area standards in the Engineering and Design and Construction Manual.

c.

The perimeter landscaping strip between a vehicle use area and a street shall not be located within any future street right-of-way whose boundary is delineated or otherwise established by the Comprehensive Plan. Figure 5.12.4.C: Perimeter Landscaping.

d. The perimeter landscaping strip shall be located on the same property as the vehicle use area.

e. Any planted trees or shrubs shall comply with the standards in Section 5.12.3.A, New Planting Standards.

f. Any wall or fence shall comply with the standards in Section 5.14, Fences and Walls.

g. Ground cover or turf shall be planted in all areas not covered by trees, shrubs, or walls.

Width The perimeter landscaping strip shall be the minimum width necessary to adequately accommodate the proposed plantings and other screening materials and avoid damage to such materials by vehicles within the vehicle use area. In no instance shall the strip be less than four feet wide. Credit Towards Other Landscaping Requirements a. Perimeter landscaping associated with a vehicle use area may be credited towards compliance with perimeter and streetyard buffer standards to the extent landscaping within the strips complies with applicable buffer standards (see Section 5.7, Perimeter and Streetyard Buffers).

Morrisville, NC

April 23, 2019

Unified Development Ordinance

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