Secondary and Cumulative Impacts Master Management Plan - 2014

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

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 parking lots;

(2) In nonresidential parking lots to maximize pedestrian travel to and from each business; and (3) In parking lots in accordance with Section 5.10.6.E, Pedestrian Walkways through Large Vehicle Parking Areas. d. Additional sidewalks or pedestrian walkways may be required where called for by the comprehensive plan. B. Greenway Paths Required 347 All new development except individual lot development of a single-family detached, duplex, or manufactured home dwelling shall incorporate into its required open space any greenway path or multi-use path called for across the development site by the Parks and Recreation Master Plan. Such incorporation shall include installation of the path and recording of an associated pedestrian access easement, if applicable. C. Pedestrian Connectivity 348 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. c. The pedestrian access and circulation system for a development also shall provide for the extension or connection of proposed internal public walkways and associated rights-of-way or easements to those boundaries of the development site that adjoin potentially developable or redevelopable land. d. The Planning Director may waive or modify the requirements or standards for extension of a public walkway from or to adjoining property on determining that such extension is impractical or undesirable because it would: (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 walkway to an adjoining existing development whose design makes it unlikely that the walkway will ever be part of a network of public walkways (e.g., the adjoining existing development has no public walkways or there are no open corridors between the proposed development site and public walkways in the adjoining development to accommodate a current or future extension or connection. 1. Walkway Connections to/from Adjoining Development and Developable Land

347 This carries forward the requirement in Sec. 5.4.2.5.a of the current Design and Construction Ordinance. 348 This new subsection mirrors the connectivity and cross-access standards for vehicles and bicycles. It carries forward the mid- block pedestrian crosswalk requirement in Art. VII, Sec. 3.4 of the current Subdivision Ordinance, adding the cut-through standard.

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Morrisville, NC

Unified Development Ordinance - Public Hearing Draft