Morrisville Unified Development Ordinance - September 2020
Article 4: Use Standards Section 4.2. Principal Uses 4.2.5. Principal Use-Specific Standards
Figure 4.2.5.D.3.a: Parking Deck Screening.
(2) Residential uses, retail sales and service uses, and office uses may be located on the ground floor of a parking deck. No other business shall be conducted in the parking deck or lot, including, but not limited to, repair, servicing, washing, display, or storage of vehicles or other goods. (3) To provide visual interest and create pedestrian activity at the street level, parking decks within the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) District shall contain retail sales and service uses and office uses along a minimum of 50 percent of their ground-floor frontage along streets other than alleys. The Planning Director may approve alternative requirements if the site lacks sufficient depth to accommodate both a parking deck and usable retail and office space at the ground-floor level. c. Solar Energy Collection System (as a principal use) (1) The maximum lot coverage of the system and any associated equipment shall not exceed 65 percent.
(2) Adequate access for maintenance of the system shall be provided.
(3) The system shall not exceed a height of 20 feet.
(4) The property owner shall be responsible for negotiating with other property owners in the vicinity to establish any solar easement designed to protect solar access for the solar energy collection system, and for recording any such solar easement with the Register of Deeds for the county in which the easement is located.
(Ord. No. 2014-051, 11/10/2014)
4.
Telecommunication Uses
a. Antenna Collocation or Combination on Existing Telecommunication Facilities
Collocations and combinations are subject to the following requirements:
(1) A collocated or combined antenna or antenna array shall not increase the height of an existing tower by more than 20 feet and shall not affect any tower lighting. (2) The compound area shall be subject to the setback requirements of the underlying zoning district. (3) When a collocated or combined antenna is to be located on a nonconforming tower or support structure, the existing permitted nonconforming setback(s) shall prevail.
Morrisville, NC
September 1, 2020
Unified Development Ordinance
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