Morrisville Unified Development Ordinance - February 2021.2

Article 5: Development Standards Section 5.8. Access and Circulation 5.8.8. Pedestrian Access and Circulation

(1) Require crossing a significant physical barrier or environmentally sensitive area (e.g., railroads, watercourses, floodplains, wetlands); or (2) Require the extension or connection of a proposed public bike path to an adjoining existing development whose design makes it unlikely that the bike path will ever be part of a network of pubic bikeways (e.g., the adjoining existing development has no bike paths or there are no open corridors between the proposed development site and public bikeways in the adjoining development to accommodate a current or future extension or connection. 2. Cross Access Between Adjoining Development To facilitate vehicular access between adjoining developments, new single-family attached, multifamily, group living, nonresidential, and mixed-use development or redevelopment shall comply with the following standards. a. Any internal bicycle circulation system shall be designed to allow for bicycle cross access between it and any internal bicycle circulation system in an adjoining single-family attached, multifamily, group living, nonresidential, and mixed-use development, or to the boundary of adjoining vacant land that is zoned to allow such single-family attached, group living, multifamily, nonresidential, and mixed-use development. b. The Planning Director, in conjunction with the Town Engineer, may waive or modify the requirement for bicycle 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); (2) Create unsafe conditions; (3) Require the connection to a cemetery or an adjoining property owned by a government or public utility to which vehicular access is restricted; or (4) Require connection through an area that is reserved as preserved land (e.g. tree save area or conservation easement). c. Easements allowing cross-access to and from properties served by a bicycle 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. D. Bikeway Design Standards All bike lanes and bike paths shall be designed and constructed in accordance with standards in the Engineering Design and Construction Manual.

Pedestrian Access and Circulation

5.8.8.

A. Required Pedestrian Access

1. General Pedestrian Access a. All new development except an individual single-family detached, duplex, or manufactured home dwelling on an existing lot (i.e., including subdivisions for such dwellings) shall be served by a system of pedestrian walkways (including sidewalks, pedestrian paths, and/or trails) that permits safe, convenient, efficient, and orderly movement of pedestrians among the following origin and destination points within the development: (1) The primary entrance(s) of principal buildings (or the buildable area of lots, for subdivisions);

Morrisville, NC

February 1, 2021

Unified Development Ordinance

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