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

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

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Public Street Connectivity a. The vehicular access and circulation for a development shall incorporate the continuation and connection of public street roadways and associated rights-of-way that have been extended or connected to the boundary of the development site from existing or approved adjoining developments. (See Figure 5.8.6.C.3.: Public Street Connections to and from Adjoining Development.) b. The vehicular access and circulation for a development shall provide for the extension or connection of proposed internal public street roadways and associated rights-of-way to those boundaries of the development site that adjoin potentially developable or redevelopable property whenever such extensions or connections are or may be necessary to ensure that the development site or the adjoining property will have:

(1) At least two vehicular access points to and from an external through street system;

(2) Convenient and efficient access by vehicles needed to provide police, fire, and emergency services; and

(3) Convenient and efficient access by vehicles needed to provide other public services.

c. Roadway extensions and connections to adjoining properties shall be spaced at intervals along each principal boundary direction (north, south, east, west) that do not exceed the maximum block length established in Section 5.3.1, Blocks. d. An extension or connection of a public street roadway and right-of-way to an adjoining property shall also include the extension or connection of associated bikeways or sidewalks. e. The Planning Director may require the provision of a temporary turnaround at the end of a roadway extension on determining that the turnaround is needed to facilitate traffic flow or accommodate emergency vehicles pending the roadway’s connection to other roadways. f. The Planning Director may waive or modify the requirements or standards for extension or connection of a public roadway from or to adjoining property on determining that such extension is impractical or undesirable because it would: (1) Require crossing a significant physical barrier or environmentally sensitive area (e.g., railroads, watercourses, floodplains, wetlands, steep slopes); (2) Require the extension or connection of a proposed internal public street to an adjoining property with existing development whose design makes it unlikely that the street will ever be part of a network of public streets (e.g., the adjoining existing development has no public streets, or there are no ‘stubbed - out” street rights of way or open corridors between the proposed development site and public streets in the adjoining development to accommodate a current or future extension or connection); (3) Require the extension or connection of a proposed internal public street to an adjoining property owned by a government or public utility to which vehicular access is restricted, or other property to which vehicular access is restricted by a conservation easement; or (4) Require the extension or connection of a proposed internal public street to an adjoining property that is developed or zoned for a use whose level and type of generated traffic would be incompatible with the proposed development — provided, however, that residential, institutional, and commercial uses shall generally be deemed compatible. g. Where a roadway is extended to, but not yet onto, adjoining land, a sign shall be installed at the terminus of the roadway that informs neighboring property owners that the roadway is intended to be extended in the future (e.g., “STREET MAY BE EXTENDED BY AUTHORITY OF THE TOWN OF MORRISVILLE”). N otation of that intent shall also be included on the Final Plat

Morrisville, NC

June 13, 2023

Unified Development Ordinance

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