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Article 6: Development Standards Section 6.6: Additional Standards for Overlay Districts Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 6-34 (3) Intra-site accessibility should be provided. Vehicles should not be required to enter the public street in order to move from one area to another on the same site. (a) This standard applies to new construction or additions that increase the square footage of a building by more than 50% of the existing square footage. (4) On all corner lots, no vehicular openings shall be located closer than 60 feet from the point of intersection of the street right-of-way lines. (5) Driveway entrances/exits shall not exceed 36 feet in width measured at the property line; however, in instances where parking lots serve tractor/trailer traffic, the driveway entrance/exit may be increased to 40 feet in width. (6) Exits for parking facilities containing more than 36 parking spaces shall contain holding lanes for left-turning and right-turning traffic unless the Planning Director determines that due to the physical features of a site, holding lanes would be unsafe and should not be required. (7) All driveway entrances must have an approved NCDOT driveway permit and must be paved to NCDOT standards from the edge of the existing roadway pavement to the existing right-of-way limit on the interior of the property. (8) Pedestrian Circulation (a) Unless deemed unnecessary by the Planning Director during site plan review, large projects, defined in (b), may be encouraged to provide an internal pedestrian circulation system, owned and maintained by the property owner. The system may be encouraged to provide pedestrian walkways to outparcels and also within any large parking areas. (b) For the purposes of this subsection, a large project is defined as one located on 2 or more acres or proposing more than 15,000 square feet of building area. A large parking area is one containing parking for 50 or more vehicles. (B) Outside Storage of Materials Prohibited (1) All outside storage of materials on lots other than those used for single-family detached residential purposes is prohibited. (2) This prohibition includes the storage of goods or materials which are not an integral part of the use of the property and which are not obviously for sale. (3) This prohibition does not include the storage of materials where the primary use of the property includes the outside display of goods for sale such as automobiles, boats, mobile homes, etc., and the materials stored outside are for sale. (C) Landscaping and Buffering In lieu of the requirements outlined in Section 6.8 of this Ordinance, the following standards shall apply: (1) There shall be a minimum ten feet wide vegetative buffer along all rights-of-ways comprised of vegetation that complements surrounding plantings and which includes trees planted in accordance with Section 6.8 where possible. (a) Parcels fronting on U.S. Highway 70 shall provide buffer plantings in accordance with those required for Buffer Yards Type A outlined within Section 6.8 of this Ordinance. 64