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Article 4: Overlay Zoning Districts Section 4.6: Major Transportation Corridor Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 4-17 Section 4.7:SECTION 4.6: MAJOR TRANSPORTATION CORRIDOR 4.7.14.6.1 Intent (A) It is the intent of Orange County to protect and enhance those natural and environmental features which constitute important physical, aesthetic, recreational, and economic assets through the provision of special controls of public and private development along major transportation corridors. (B) The Board of County Commissioners finds as a fact that: (1) Major transportation corridors serve a key function in the orderly development of Orange County as major traffic movers, as well as serve as entrances to Orange County from outside the area. (2) These corridors and the character of the development which occurs along them establish for visitors and residents alike an indicator of the quality of life in the County, as well as the efficiency and safety of traffic movement through the area. (3) In addition, the ability of different areas of the County to attract and accommodate different types of development depends on the capacity of the thoroughfare system and the character and quality of development along major corridors. (C) The Major Transportation Corridor district is intended to enhance the attractiveness and orderly development of land adjacent to major transportation facilities through the provision of a set of development standards and regulations for application to public and private development of land adjacent to these corridors. The major transportation corridors include the interstate system as designated in the adopted Comprehensive Plan. (D) The district establishes development standards (see Section 6.6.54) and a site plan review process for development within the district. (See Section 2.5). 4.7.24.6.2 Applicability (A) The Major Transportation Corridor (MTC) district is established as a district which overlays other zoning districts established in this Ordinance. The new use of any land or any new structure within the MTC district shall comply with the use regulations applicable to the underlying zoning district as well as the requirements of the MTC district. (B) The provisions, requirements and restrictions of this district shall not apply to the use of land within the district for single family or two-family dwellings or to any building or structure existing prior to the creation of this district unless it is structurally altered to the extent of increasing the floor area by 50% or more or is enlarged to any degree to occupy a vacant lot. (C) This district shall be applied along any interstate highway in the County designated in the adopted Comprehensive Plan as such and to any proposed interstate highway designated in the adopted Comprehensive Plan as such. (D) The minimum length of the district shall be a continuous distance along the thoroughfare within the County’s jurisdiction and outside of the extraterritorial planning jurisdictions of the Towns of Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro and the City of Mebane. (E) The minimum width of the district is 1,250 feet from the edge of the right-of-way measured along a line which is perpendicular to the edge of the right-of-way on each side of the roadway, except at interstate interchanges where the District shall extend 2,500 feet from the right-of-way on each side of the intersecting road. Comment 49