2010-032 Planning - Professional Services Related to the Orange County Unified Development Ordinance

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Annotated Outline DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS General Commentary: This chapter contains all of the development standards in the new UDO related to the,physical layout of new development with the exception of the subdivision standards, which are found in Article 6,Subdivisions. The proposed contents of Article 5, Development Standards, Article 5:, Development Standards are listed in the sidebar and are discussed below. Examples of standards to be incorporated into this article include: 5,01 Off-Street Parking and Loading • Off-street parking and loading standards as described in the diagnosis; 5.2 Landscaping Standards • Revised landscaping standards that emphasize new standards for vehicle accommodation areas, performance-based buffers,and street trees; 5.3 Tree Protection • New tree protection standards for retention of existing tree canopy, specimen trees,and tree protection during construction; • Open space set-aside standards; 5.4 Open Space Set-Aside • Fence and walls standards that focus on fence appearance and limiting fence heights; 5.5 Fences a nd Walls.- • Exterior lighting standards, • . Traffic impact standards; 5.6 Exterior Lighting New community form standards; • Commercial design standards that address the design and orientation of 5.7 Traffic Impact Analysis retail establishments; Multi-family design standards focusing on multi-family structure 5.8 Community Form Standards appearance; and • Carrying forward the existing signage standards with no substantive 5.9 Commercial Design Standards revisions. OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING 5.10 Multi-Family Design Standards This section includes quantitative off-street parking requirements for uses 5.11 Signage matching the revised use table for consistency and ease of use. The permissible location of off-street parking areas will be set forth and differentiated by district and type of development Incentives will be used to allow developers to provide fewer than the minimum number of required parking spaces in exchange for providing public or green space, or developing preferred development types, such as vertically-integrated .9 mixed-use. The provisions include maximum numbers of off-street parking spaces for development, as well as requiring any additional off-street spaces provided in excess of the minimum requirements (for all uses) be on pervious or semi-pervious surfaces. Flexibility will be built into the provisions by allowing applicants to propose alternative strategies, such as off-site parking, shared parking, valet parking, or(in appropriate settings) credit for on-street parking spaces. Deferred parking provisions are included that allow a developer to construct 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), with land area for future parking held in reserve until monitoring proves that the built parking is either adequate or is inadequate and needs to be expanded into the reserved area. Finally, provisions are added requiring pedestrian amenities and bicycle parking facilities. The parking lot landscaping provisions are relocated to the new landscaping section. LANDSCAPING STANDARDS 1P The current landscaping requirements will be upgraded and the general planting requirements increased. To improve clarity, graphics will be used, as appropriate, to explain the requirements for landscaping. Provisions allowing greater flexibility in meeting landscaping standards (such as aggregate caliper inch standards per 100 linear feet) will be added to encourage creative design. In addition, a minimum percentage of landscaping may be required to be native or drought tolerant In addition 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 Hillsborough,North Carolina Unified Development Ordinance I Draft An notated Outline Page 13 November,2009