Morrisville Unified Development Ordinance - February 2021.2

Article 11: Interpretation and Definitions Section 11.5. Terms and Uses Defined 11.4.3. Illuminated Signs

P ERSON For purposes of enforcing this Ordinance in accordance with Article 10: Enforcement, “person’ includes any individual, corporation, government agency, government official, business trust, partnership, two or more persons having a joint interest, or any other legal entity. Persons subject the remedies and penalties established in Article 10: Enforcement, for violating this Ordinance shall include: an architect, engineer, builder, contractor, developer, agency, or any other person who participates in, assists, directs, creates, causes, or maintains a condition resulting in or constituting a violation of this Ordinance; or an owner, any tenant or occupant, or any other person who has control over, or responsibility for, the use or development of the land on which the violation occurs. For all other purposes, “person” means any individual, corporation, government agency, government official, business trust, partnership, two or more persons having a joint interest, or any other legal entity. P ILASTER A rectangular column with a capital and base that is attached or affixed to a wall as an ornamental design feature. P LACE OF W ORSHIP , C OMMUNITY OR N EIGHBORHOOD A structure, together with its accessory buildings and uses, where people regularly assemble to conduct religious worship, ceremonies, rituals, and related education. The structure and its accessory buildings and uses are maintained and controlled by a religious body. Places of worship include chapels, churches, mosques, shrines, synagogues, tabernacles, temples, and other similar religious places of assembly. Accessory uses may include administrative offices, classrooms, meeting rooms, cooking and eating facilities and dwelling units housing up to two faith leaders. A place of worship may be combined with other uses that generally exist as principal uses—e.g., day care center, school, cemetery, or private recreational/entertainment facility. Such uses are treated as principal uses and subject to the standards and limitations applicable to such uses, and are included in the total gross floor area if located on the same lot.. A community place of worship is a place of worship where the total gross floor area exceeds 8,000 square feet. A neighborhood place of worship is a place of worship where the total gross floor area is no more than 8,000 square feet.

P LACE S IGN See Sign, Place.

P LANNED U NIT D EVELOPMENT A tract of land under individual, corporate, firm, partnership, or association ownership, or under common control evidenced by duly recorded contracts or agreements, planned and developed as an integral unit in a single development operation or in a definitely programmed series of development operations in accordance with a master land use plan and detailed engineering and architectural plans.

P LANNING AND Z ONING B OARD See Section 2.2.2.

P LANNING D IRECTOR The Director of the Morrisville, North Carolina Planning Department. See Section 2.2.1.A. P LAT A map or plan of a parcel of land which is to be, or which has been, subdivided.

Morrisville, NC

February 1, 2021

Unified Development Ordinance

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