Morrisville Unified Development Ordinance - February 2021.2

Article 5: Development Standards Section 5.8. Access and Circulation 5.8.7. Bicycle Access and Circulation

Bicycle Access and Circulation

5.8.7.

A. Required Bicycle Access 1. All new development except individual lot development of a single-family detached, duplex, or manufactured home dwelling on an existing lot (i.e., including subdivisions for such dwellings) shall be served by an internal bicycle circulation system (including shared roadway lanes, widened outside roadway lanes, bike lanes, shoulders, and/or separate bike paths) that permits safe, convenient, efficient, and orderly movement of bicyclists among the following origin and destination points within the development. a. Bicycle parking facilities or areas near the primary entrance(s) of principal buildings (or the buildable area of lots, for subdivisions); b. Any designated or planned bus stops and shelters; and c. Recreation facilities and other common use area and amenities. 2. The development’s internal bicycle circulation system shall also permit safe, convenient, efficient, and orderly movement of vehicles between the development’s internal origin and destination points and adjoining parts of an existing or planned external, community-wide bicycle circulation system as well as any adjoining transit stations, bus stops and shelters, public parks, greenways, schools, community centers, and shopping areas. B. Bike Lanes Required 1. All new development except individual lot development of a single-family detached, duplex, or manufactured home dwelling on an existing lot (i.e., including subdivisions for such dwellings) shall provide bike lanes within the development site and along the entire frontage of the development site with an existing street where bikes lanes are called for by the Comprehensive Plan or other Town-adopted plans addressing transportation (unless an existing bike lane meeting Town standards is already in place). 2. Such bike lane shall be provided within the right-of-way of the street unless the Planning Director determines that location within the right-of-way is not practicable or preferable—in which case, the bike path may be provided on the development site, within a dedicated widening of the right- of-way or a dedicated public easement running parallel and adjacent to the thoroughfare or collector street. C. Bicycle Connectivity 1. Bikeway Connections to/from Adjoining Development and Developable Land a. Where a public street is extended to or from a development’s boundary in accordance with Section 5.8.6.D.4, Public Street Connectivity, such extension shall include the extension of any bike lanes within the right-of-way of the street. b. The pedestrian access and circulation system for a development shall incorporate the continuation and connection of public bike paths and associated rights-of-way or easements that have been extended or connected to the boundary of the development site from existing or approved adjoining developments. c. The pedestrian access and circulation system for a development shall provide for the extension or connection of proposed internal public bike paths and associated rights-of-way or easements to those boundaries of the development site that adjoin potentially developable or redevelopable land. d. The Planning Director may waive or modify the requirements or standards for extension of a public bikeway from or to adjoining property on determining that such extension is impractical or undesirable because it would:

Morrisville, NC

February 1, 2021

Unified Development Ordinance

Page 5-59