Morrisville Unified Development Ordinance_Feb 2024.1

Article 5: Development Standards Section 5.8. Access and Circulation 5.8.6. Vehicular Access and Circulation

identified improvements shall at a minimum maintain the Future Year Background LOS and delay; (ii) All identified improvements shall be supported by the data provided in the analysis. Any identified improvements beyond turn lanes or other operational improvements shall be consistent with adopted plans.

5. Incorporation of Identified Improvements into Proposed Development or Decision

The applicant is expected to incorporate improvements identified by the transportation impact analysis into the proposed development to the extent they are required by Section 5.8.5, Developer Responsibility for Access and Circulation Improvements. Incorporation of said improvements may be through construction of improvements or payment in lieu of construction pursuant to Section 8.1.3. As part of the review of the application, the Planning Director may incorporate such identified improvements in the decision — e.g., as conditions of approval requiring provision of the identified improvements or requiring modification of the development’s uses or intensity, or as a basis for denial of the application. Purpose The purpose of the following vehicular connectivity standards is to enhance safe and convenient mobility within and between developments that helps integrate and connect neighborhoods, allow people to conveniently access activity centers without compromising the capacity of the Town’s streets to accommodate through traffic, improve opportunities for comprehensive and convenient transit service, enhance efficient provision of public services, improve the speed and effectiveness with which emergency services and police and fire protection can be provided to Town residents and properties, and implement other connectivity objectives and policies in the Comprehensive Plan. Required Vehicular Access and Circulation a. A development shall be served by an internal system of vehicular accessways (including alleys, fire lanes, and drive aisle lanes) that permits safe, convenient, efficient, and orderly movement of vehicles among origin and destination points within the development in accordance with the following standards for the type of vehicle: (1) Firefighting and other emergency vehicles shall be provided access to points within 150 feet of all portions of buildings and facilities, or such smaller distance required in accordance with requirements for fire apparatus access roads in the Fire Prevention Code. (2) Public transit and school buses shall be provided access to designated or planned bus stops and shelters. (3) Garbage trucks shall be provided access to bulk refuse containers and to points within 150 feet of individual refuse receptacle storage/collection sites. (5) Small delivery trucks, service vehicles, and passenger motor vehicles shall be provided access to points within 100 feet of a single-family detached, duplex, or manufactured home dwelling, and to the off-street parking spaces serving any other development. b. The development’s internal system of vehicular accessways shall also permit safe, convenient, efficient, and orderly movement of vehicles between the development’s internal origin and destination points and the external roadway system and adjacent transit stations. (4) Large delivery trucks shall be provided access to off-street loading spaces.

C. Vehicular Connectivity

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(Ord. No. 2015-002, 04/29/2015)

Required Multiple Means of Vehicular Access

Residential and nonresidential development shall provide multiple means of vehicular access in accordance with the Fire Code.

Morrisville, NC

June 13, 2023

Unified Development Ordinance

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