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Article 3: Base Zoning Districts Section 3.4: General Commercial Districts Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 3-31 number of individual dwellings that can be developed on a parcel of property). 4. Allowable impervious surface area is based on the Watershed Protection Overlay District in which the property is located. Refer to Sections 4.2.5 and 4.2.6 for a breakdown of the allowable impervious surface area. Additionally, Section 4.2.6 may require a larger lot size for non-residential uses than is contained in the Dimensional and Ratio Standards Table. 5. For lots outside of a Watershed Protection Overlay District (see Section 4.2), the minimum usable lot area for lots that utilize ground absorption wastewater systems shall be 30,000 square feet for parcels between 40,000 square feet and 1.99 acres in size; zoning lots two acres and greater in size shall have a minimum usable lot area of at least 40,000 square feet. 6. Proposed subdivisions are subject to all applicable subdivision standards detailed in Article 7. Note that Article 7 provides for different dimensional requirements than those shown in the Dimensional and Ratio Standards table depending upon the type of subdivision proposed and the percentage of open space provided. 7. Subdivisions proposing private roads are subject to larger setbacks and minimum lot sizes than those listed in the Dimensional and Ratio Standards. Refer to Section 7.8.4 for additional requirements. Refer to Section 7.8.5 for private road standards. 8. Subdivisions in the Economic Development, Commercial and/or Industrial Nodes are subject to the procedure outlined in Section 2.16. 9. The site shall be located near major transportation corridors and have access to adequate public roadway network. 10. When the principal land use of property is from the Manufacturing, Assembly, and Processing land use category, as detailed in Section 5.2 of this Ordinance, additional land uses from the Financial Institutions, Services, and Retail land use categories are permitted to be located on the property in accordance with the following general standards: a. Submitted site plan shall identify the square footage of each structure by type and use. b. The principal use shall have previously been established on the subject parcel. c. Additional land use shall not exceed 25% of the total square footage of all structures on the site.2 2 This is revised language, currently located in Section 5.14.5, of the UDO being relocated. Text is denoted in red underline text denoting it as a ‘change’ due to the wholesale modification of same as part of the amendment process. 94