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115 Annotated Outline DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS General Commentary: This chapter contains all of the development standards in the newA~D ie 5aYeDeVelOPyment Standards development with the exception of the subdivision standards, which are found in Article 6, Subdivisions. The proposed contents of Article 5, Development Standards, 5.1 Off Street Parking and Loading are listed in the sidebar and are discussed below. Examples of standards to be incorporated into this article include: ' - 5.2 Landscaping Standards Off-street parking and loading standards as described in the diagnosis; Revised landscaping standards that emphasize new standards for vehicle 5.3 Tree Protection accommodation areas, performance-based buffers, and street trees; e New Vee protedion standards for retention of exisfing tree canopy, specimen trees, and tree protection during construction; Open space set-aside standards; earance and limiting fence and walls standards that focus on fence app fence heights; Exterior lightingstandards; Trafficimpadstandards; New community form standards; Commercial design standards that address the design and orientation of retail establishments; Multi-family design standards focusing on multi-family strudure appearance; and Carrying forward the existing signage standards with no substantive revisions. 5.4 Open Space Set-Aside 5.5 Fences and Walls 5.fi Exterior Lighting 5,7 TrafficlmpactAnalysis 5,g Community Form Standards 5.9 Commercial Design Standards 5.10 'Multi-Family Design-Standards OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING This sedion includes quantitative off-street parking requirements for uses 5:11 signage ~ - matching the revised use table for consistency and ease of use. The d'fferentiated bytdi trid and type of development will be set forth and Incentives will be used to allow developers [o provide fewer than the minimum number of required parking spaces to referred development types, such as verucally-integrated exchange for providing public or green space, or developing p mixed nal off sVeetospaces'provided n'excess of therm n mum requtrements (for allruses)Ibe onnperviouslor semir-''pervious add surfaces. Flexibility will be built into the provisions by allowing applicantr to propose alternative strategies, such as off-site par ing, shared parking, valet parking, or (in appropriate settings} credit for on-street parking spaces. Deferrevd~ ~ nldgareavforofuture included that allow a developer to construd 80 percent of the minimum required amount of parking and then monitor parking demand during initial operation of the development (for perhaps a year or 16 months), parking held in reserve until monitoring proves that the built parking is either adequate or is inadequate and needs to e rovisions are added requiring pedesuian amenities and bicycle parking facilities. expanded into the reserved area. Finally, p The parking lot landscaping provisions are relocated to the new landscaping section. LANDSCAPING STANDARDS rester flexibility in The current landscaping requirements will be upgraded and the general planting requirements increased. To improve c arty, graphics will be used, as appropriate, to explain the requirements for fandscapmg. Provisions allowing g ' meeting landscaping standards (such as aggCeg~ a of lanrds p g may bePequir0edl[o be native otrldroughdt tolerant courage creative design. In addition, a minimum p g In additon to the general requirements for all landscaping, we suggest adding more specific standards for site landscaping for nonresidential and multi-family uses. We recommend upgrades to the parking lot landscaping provisions such as the Page 13 Hillsborough, North Carolina Unified Development Ordinance I DraftAnnotated Outline November, 2009