UDO_Adopted Version_February 2025-BAC Updated 4.29.25

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

d. The Planning Director, in conjunction with the Town Engineer, may waive or modify the requirement for vehicular cross access on determining that such cross access is impractical or undesirable because it would: (1) Require crossing a significant physical barrier or environmentally sensitive area (e.g., railroad, watercourse, floodplain, wetlands, steep slopes); (3) Require connection through a cemetery or adjoining property owned by a government or public utility to which access is restricted; or (4) Require connection through an adjoining property zoned as a Park/Greenway/Open Space (PGO) District or an area that is reserved as preserved land (e.g. tree save area or conservation easement). (2) Create unsafe conditions;

Figure 5.8.8.C.1: Pedestrian cut-through at end of cul-de-sac.

2. Cross Access Between Adjoining Development

To facilitate pedestrian access between adjoining developments, new multifamily, group living, nonresidential, and mixed-use development or redevelopment shall comply with the following standards: a. The internal pedestrian circulation system shall be designed to allow for pedestrian walkway cross- access between the development’s buildings and parking areas and those in an adjoining, multifamily, group living, nonresidential, and mixed-use development, or to the boundary of adjoining vacant land zoned to allow multifamily, group living, nonresidential, and mixed-use development.

Morrisville, NC

July 9, 2024 Page 5-56

Unified Development Ordinance