Unified Development Ordinance_ Jul 2022

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

B IKE L ANE A designated area within a street roadway or other vehicular accessway that is reserved for bicycle travel and separated from the rest of the roadway or vehicular accessway by painted lines or other pavement markings.

B IKE L OCKER A locker or box in which a single bicycle is placed and locked in.

B IKE P ATH A designated accessway reserved for bicycle travel that is not within a street roadway or other vehicular accessway. A bike path may be within a greenway or may parallel a street or other vehicular accessway, but are typically separated from them by landscaping.

B IKE R ACK A stand used for mounting and securing two bicycles when not in use.

B IKEWAY Any improved bicycle accessway that is specifically designated as being open to bicycle travel, regardless of whether such facility is designated for the exclusive use of bicycles or is shared with other transportation modes. Bikeways include bike lanes within roadways and off-street bike paths. B IOMANUFACTURING Manufacturing or similar technological processes which may utilize biological or chemical systems to produce, develop, analyze, engineer, or demonstrate functions of proteins, enzymes, high-tech life science outputs, or similar bio-molecules used for life science, bio-agricultural, food, beverage, medical, or pharmaceutical purposes. Accessory uses may include institutional, academic, and hospital uses ancillary to life science uses, research laboratories, temporary indoor storage of produced goods, and warehouse/distribution of produced goods. All manufacturing activities are contained entirely within a building and noise, odor, smoke, pollutants, heat, glare, and vibration resulting from the manufacturing activity are confined entirely within the building. Examples of biomanufacturing include high-tech life science outputs, vaccines, medicines, or similar compounds. Uses similar to those also defined in this section shall not be permitted under this definition. B LOCK A unit of land bounded by streets or by a combination of streets and parks or open space, railroad rights-of-way, waterways or any barrier to the continuity of development. B LOCK F ACE Properties abutting one side of a street or public right-of-way and lying between the two nearest intersecting streets or rights-of-way, or intersecting right-of-way and railroad right-of-way, unsubdivided land, water course or Town boundary. B REWERY /D ISTILLERY An establishment primarily engaged in the brewing or manufacturing of ale, beer, malt liquors, nonalcoholic beer, and/or fortified spirits that are permitted to do so in accordance with the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission. Breweries shall have a capacity of 15,000 barrels or more per year. Accessory uses include a restaurant, a public tasting room, and retails sales of ale, beer, spirits, or related products.

Morrisville, NC

October 1, 2021

Unified Development Ordinance

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