Morrisville Unified Development Ordinance

Article 3: Zoning Districts

SECTION 3.1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Establishment of Zoning Districts

3.1.1.

This Ordinance establishes the base, planned development, and overlay zoning districts listed in Table 3.1.1, Zoning Districts Established, as well as conditional zoning districts paralleling each of the base zoning districts identified in Table 3.1.1.

Table 3.1.1: Zoning Districts Established B ASE D ISTRICTS Conservation Districts Park/Greenway/Open Space (PGO) (Sec. 3.2.2) Residential Districts Very Low Density Residential (VLDR) (Sec. 3.3.2) Low Density Residential (LDR) Sec. 3.3.3) Medium Density Residential (MDR) (Sec. 3.3.4) High Density Residential (HDR) (Sec. 3.3.5) Activity Center Districts Neighborhood Activity Center (NAC) (Sec. 3.4.2) Business Activity Center (BAC) (Sec. 3.4.3) Community Activity Center (CAC) (Sec. 3.4.4) Regional Activity Center (RAC) (Sec. 3.4.5) Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) (Sec. 3.4.6) Town Center Districts Historic Crossroads Village (HCV) (Sec. 3.5.2) Main Street (MS) Sec. 3.5.3) Town Center Commercial (TCC) (Sec. 3.5.4) Town Center Residential (TCR) (Sec. 3.5.5) Residential Transition (RT) (Sec. 3.5.6) Residential Neighborhood Preservation (RNP) (Sec. 3.5.7) Commercial and Industrial Districts Corridor Commercial (CC) (Sec. 3.6.2) Office/Institutional (OI) (Sec. 3.6.3) Industrial Management (IM) (Sec. 3.6.4) C ONDITIONAL D ISTRICTS One parallel to each Base District above (e.g., C-NAC) P LANNED D EVELOPMENT D ISTRICTS Mixed-Use Planned Development (MUPD) (Sec. 3.7.2) Main Street Planned Development (MSPD) District (Sec. 3.7.3.) O VERLAY D ISTRICTS

Types of Zoning Districts

3.1.2.

A. Base Zoning Districts

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Base zoning districts are established initially by the Town Council ’s adoption of the Official Zoning Map and subsequently by approval of a General Rezoning (see Section 2.5.3). Such approval authorizes the full range of development allowed by the standards applicable to the base zoning district. Development in a base zoning district is subject to predetermined standards set out or referenced for the district in Section Section 3.2 through Section Section 3.6. For each base zoning district, regulations set out the district’s purpose and the intensity and dimensional standards applicable in the district, and reference other Ordinance standards generally applicable to development in the district. Each base zoning district also includes a photo depicting a building form typical in the district and an illustration depicting how the district’s dimensional standards apply to lots and typical building forms. The illustration is intended to illustrate the general character of the district; if a standard shown in the illustration is inconsistent with the table of intensity or dimensional standards, the standards in the table shall govern.

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Airport Overlay-A (AO-A) (Sec. 3.8.2) Airport Overlay-B (AO-B) (Sec. 3.8.2) Floodplain Overlay (FO) (Sec. 3.8.3) Gateway Overlay (GO) (Sec. 3.8.4

(Ord. No. 2014-022, 06/24/2014)

(Ord. No. 2016-001, 05/10/2016)

B. Conditional Zoning Districts

1. Conditional zoning districts (e.g., C-NAC) parallel each of the base zoning districts and are established through the Town Council’s approval of a Conditional Rezoning (see Section 2.5.3), which incorporates district-specific plans and conditions agreed to by the owner(s) of the rezoned land.

Morrisville, NC

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Unified Development Ordinance - Public Review Draft

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