Unified Development Ordinance

Article 5: Development Standards Section 5.10. Parking and Loading 5.10.6. Off-Street Parking Arrangement and Design

E. Exterior Lighting

Lighted off-street vehicle parking and loading areas shall comply with the standards of Section 5.15, Exterior Lighting. F. Landscaping Except for driveways serving as off-street vehicle parking areas for bungalow court, pocket neighborhood, single-family detached, duplex, manufactured home, and single-family attached dwellings, all off-street vehicle parking and loading areas shall comply with the standards of Section 5.12.4, Vehicle Use Area Landscaping.

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

G. Maintained In Good Repair

1.

Maintained at All Times All off-street vehicle parking and loading areas shall be maintained in safe condition and good repair at all times so as not to constitute a hazard to public safety or a visual or aesthetic nuisance to surrounding land.

2.

Periodically Restored

All off-street vehicle parking and loading areas shall be periodically painted or otherwise restored to maintain a clear identification of separate parking spaces or loading spaces.

5.10.6. Off-Street Parking Arrangement and Design

A. Consideration of Structured Parking To conserve land and minimize the negative impacts on the natural and human environment, developers are encouraged to consider the feasibility of providing structured vehicle parking rather that surface vehicle parking. B. Off-Street Parking Facility Location a. For all development located in the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) District, all proposed new or additional surface vehicle parking shall be located to the rear or side of the development’s principal building(s) to the maximum extent practicable— and not between the building(s) and abutting street(s). b. A maximum of twenty (20) per cent of a block’s street frontage can be occupied by surface parking as shown in Figure 5.10.6.B.1 On determining that it is impracticable to locate off-street surface vehicle parking in the side or rear yard only, the Planning Director may allow alternative locations and arrangements of the surface parking — provided that in addition to vehicle use area screening required by Section 5.12.4, Vehicle Use Area Landscaping, a Type G, Option 2 streetyard buffer shall be provided between a street and any surface vehicle parking located between it and the development’s principal building(s). (See Section 5.7, Perimeter and Streetyard Buffers.) 1. Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and Gateway Overlay (GO) Districts

Morrisville, NC

October 1, 2021

Unified Development Ordinance

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