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Article 6: Development Standards <br /> Section 6.6: Additional Standards for Overlay Districts <br /> <br /> <br />Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 6-32 <br /> <br />(a) site configuration; <br />(b) trip generation; <br />(c) traffic conditions, including the need for separate service and <br />visitor/employee vehicular access, and/or one-way traffic movement; or <br />(d) other factors. <br />(4) Intra-site accessibility shall be provided. Vehicles shall not be required to enter <br />the public street in order to move from one area to another on the same site. <br />(5) On all corner lots, no vehicular openings shall be located closer than 60 feet from <br />the point of intersection of the street right-of-way lines. <br />(6) Driveway entrances/exits shall not exceed 36 feet in width measured at the <br />property line; however, in instances where parking lots serve tractor/trailer traffic, <br />the driveway entrance/exit may be increased to 40 feet in width. <br />(7) Exits for parking facilities containing more than 36 parking spaces shall contain <br />holding lanes for left-turning and right-turning traffic unless the Planning Director <br />determines that due to the physical features of a site, holding lanes would be <br />unsafe and should not be required. <br />(8) Shared Driveways/Access <br />(a) In order to minimize the number of driveway curb cuts on Mount Willing <br />Road, thereby improving traffic flow and safety, developments subject to <br />this Section, fronting on Mount Willing Road, and located contiguous to <br />one another shall provide shared driveways/access whenever feasible, <br />as determined during site plan review. <br />(i) Methods to achieve shared driveways/access may include <br />reciprocal easement agreements among property owners, <br />reservation of future access easements on property being <br />developed, or other methods determined during site plan review. <br />(ii) The location of shared driveways shall be determined during site <br />plan review. Shared driveways do not necessarily need to be <br />located at the front of lots if rear or side access is proposed and <br />feasible. <br />(9) All driveway entrances must have an approved NCDOT driveway permit and <br />must be paved to NCDOT standards from the edge of the existing roadway <br />pavement to the existing right-of-way limit on the interior of the property. <br />(10) Pedestrian Circulation <br />(a) Unless deemed unnecessary by the Planning Director during site plan <br />review, large projects, defined in (b), may be encouraged to provide an <br />internal pedestrian circulation system, owned and maintained by the <br />property owner. The system may be encouraged to provide pedestrian <br />walkways to outparcels and also within any large parking areas. <br />(b) For the purposes of this subsection, a large project is defined as one <br />located on 5 or more acres or proposing more than 50,000 square feet of <br />building area. A large parking area is one containing parking for 100 or <br />more vehicles. <br />(B) Landscaping and Buffering <br />In lieu of the requirements outlined in Section 6.8 of this Ordinance, the following <br />standards shall apply: <br />(1) There shall be a minimum ten feet wide vegetative buffer along all rights-of-ways <br />comprised of vegetation that complements surrounding plantings and which <br />includes trees planted in accordance with Section 6.8 where possible. <br /> 62