Morrisville Unified Development Ordinance_Feb 2024.1

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

Figure 5.5.8.6.C.4.: Cross-access between parking areas of adjoining developments.

c. Required vehicular cross access between the adjoining lots shall be provided through the use of a frontage or service street (if the lots front on a major thoroughfare right-of-way), a single two-way driveway or drive aisle, or two one-way driveways or aisles that are sufficiently wide to accommodate traffic by automobiles, service vehicles, loading vehicles, and emergency vehicles. d. The Planning Director, in conjunction with the Town Engineer, may waive or modify the requirement for vehicular cross access on determining that such cross access is impractical or undesirable because it would: (1) Require crossing a significant physical barrier or environmentally sensitive area (e.g., railroad, watercourse, floodplain, wetlands, steep slopes); (2) Require connection to a parcel that, due to lot dimensions, physical site constraints, existing development or infrastructure, is unlikely to complete the proposed cross access; (4) Require the connection to a cemetery or an adjoining property owned by a government or public utility to which vehicular access is restricted; or (5) Require connection through an adjoining property zoned as Park/Greenway/Open Space (PGO) District or an area that is reserved as preserved land (e.g. tree save area or conservation easement). e. Easements allowing cross access to and from properties served by a vehicular cross-access, along with agreements defining maintenance responsibilities of property owners, shall be recorded with the Register of Deeds for the county in which the properties are located before issuance of a Building Permit for the development. f. The Planning Director may approve payment in lieu of construction of private cross access improvements in accordance with Section 8.1.4. Purpose The purpose of the access management standards in this subsection is to control vehicular access to developments from adjacent streets in a way that preserves the safe and efficient flow of the traffic on the streets while providing property owners a right to reasonable access to a general system of streets and highways. Specifically, the standards are intended to limit the number of (3) Create unsafe conditions; (6) Require connection to an adjoining property with a current extraction or land fill use.

D. Vehicular Access Management

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Morrisville, NC

June 13, 2023

Unified Development Ordinance

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