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Article 5. Uses 24 <br /> Section 5 5 Standards for Residential Uses <br /> deliveries must be made by vehicles of a size normally <br /> used for household deliveries 6 <br /> b Parking generated by the home occupation shall be met <br /> off the street and ether-than not in a required yard area <br /> c There shall be no use of a vehicle with a <br /> excess of one ton a gross vehicle weight in excess of <br /> 14,000 pounds used in connection with the home <br /> occupation' - __ -• - _ -_ _ _- .- _ _ <br /> up Vehicles with the permitted load capacity generally <br /> vans such as those used by UPS, but would not include <br /> vehicles such as tractor trailers or dump trucks 8 <br /> (iii) Use of Accessory Structures <br /> a An accessory building containing up to.1-9801,500 <br /> square feet may be utilized in the RB, AR and R 1 <br /> residential zoning districts, detailed in Section 3 3,9 <br /> provided that the b-61ild+ng structure is built with suitable <br /> residential construction materials to resemble has the <br /> appearance of a residential accessory structure 10 <br /> b The accessory structure must be screened from view of <br /> the road and adjacent property by a densely planted <br /> evergreen hedge of shrubs or trees In lieu of an <br /> evergreen hedge, a six foot stockade fence and <br /> deciduous plant materials vegetation planted along the <br /> outside of the fence may be used for screening <br /> purposes Screening will not be required when. <br /> The accessory structure is located 40 feet or <br /> more from all property lines, or <br /> 6 Existing standards regulating the number of hourly and daily trips were found to be inconsistent with <br /> proposed language regulating the number of students, customers, and/or clients permitted onsite per day. <br /> As a result. revisions will allow for an increase in the number of daily trips resulting from the operation of <br /> the home occupation. Proposed standards are to regulate the number of daily trips generated from <br /> employees and visitors associated with the home occupation and not the number of daily trips generated <br /> from the residential use of the property. Please note that a "trip count" is one direction only(a round trip, <br /> in and out, is counted as two trips in traffic engineerinq calculations).Additional revisions shall allow for <br /> an increase in deliveries while limiting the type of vehicle to a size normally used for household deliveries <br /> 'Weight standards have been modified replacing load capacity with the more common and familiar <br /> vehicle gross weight standard The proposed weight of 14,000 pounds will allow for the use of standard <br /> and larger sized pick-up trucks in connection with all home occupations <br /> 6 Staff recommends the existing language to be revised in order to a avoid a potential inconsistency with <br /> standards contained within item a <br /> 9 Revised standards are proposed to allow the use of accessory structures up to 1,500 feet in all <br /> residential districts contained within Section 3 3, Residential Districts, instead of limiting this use to only <br /> the RB,AR, and R-1 districts. <br /> 10 Revisions will clarify concerns raised at the Quarterly Public Hearing regarding existing language <br /> addressing the appearance of accessory structures. Standards require accessory structures to be <br /> constructed with suitable residential construction materials in order to avoid commercially designed <br /> structures to be located in a residential zoning district. Existing and proposed standards do not require <br /> accessory structures to take on the exact appearance of the residential structure. <br /> Orange County, North Carolina—Unified Development Ordinance Page 5-36 <br />