Morrisville Unified Development Ordinance - February 2021.2

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

(2) Off-street parking bays (including any parking serving on-site transit stations or facilities); (3) Any designated or planned bus stops and shelters; and (4) Recreation facilities and other common use area and amenities. b. The development internal pedestrian circulation system shall also provide safe, convenient, efficient, and orderly movement of pedestrians between the development’s internal pedestrian origin and destination points and adjoining parts of an existing or planned external, community-wide pedestrian circulation system as well as any adjoining transit stations, bus stops and shelters, public parks, greenways, schools, community centers, and shopping areas. 2. Sidewalks Required a. All new development except an individual single-family detached, duplex, or manufactured home dwelling on an existing lot shall install sidewalks along both sides of roadways proposed within the development site and along the entire frontage of the development site with an existing street (unless an existing sidewalk meeting Town standards is already in place). b. Such sidewalks 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—in which case, the sidewalk may be provided on the development site, within a dedicated widening of the right- of-way or a dedicated public easement and running parallel and adjacent to the street. c. The Planning Director may require additional sidewalks where warranted by the safety and welfare of the general public—including, but not limited to: (1) Along one side of all driveway entrances to residential and nonresidential off-street parking facilities; (2) In group living and nonresidential off-street parking facilities to maximize pedestrian travel to and from each business; and (3) In off-street parking facilities in accordance with Section 5.10.6.D, Pedestrian Walkways through Large Vehicle Parking Areas. d. Additional sidewalks or pedestrian walkways may be required where called for by the Comprehensive Plan. (Ord. No. 2015-002, 04/29/2015) B. Greenway Paths Required 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 incorporate into its required open space any greenway or sidepath called for across the development site by the Comprehensive Plan. Such incorporation shall include installation of the path and recording of an associated pedestrian access easement, if applicable. 1. Walkway Connections to/from Adjoining Development and Developable Land a. Where a public street is extended to or from a development site’s boundary in accordance with Section 5.8.6.D.4, Public Street Connectivity, such extension shall include the extension of any sidewalks 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 walkways 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. (Ord. No. 2014-022, 06/24/2014) C. Pedestrian Connectivity

Morrisville, NC

February 1, 2021

Unified Development Ordinance

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