ORDINANCE - Site Design Standards - 5-4-15

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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE LEE COUNTY UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners for Lee County, North Carolina that the Unified Development Ordinance be, and it hereby is, amended as follows: Section 1. That Article 10, Site Design Standards, Section 10.7 title be renamed to Design Standards for Commercial Development Along Thoroughfares and Freeways and that Section 10.7 be rewritten as follows: 10.7.1 PURPOSE. The purpose of this Section 10.7 is to provide a regulatory tool that will assist in ensuring that future commercial development and/or redevelopment that may occur along the Town of Broadway, City of Sanford and Lee County's thoroughfares maintains a minimum level of quality in design. The standards as found within this Section require specific design elements that promote a consistent, attractive appearance along our most visible travel corridors. The standards as found within this § 10.7 are supplemental and intended to compliment other design standard as found within this UDO. 10.7.2 APPLICATION. 10.7.2.1 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT. The standards as found within this § 10.7 shall apply to all development or redevelopment (see § 3.2.3.3) that is defined as follows: (a) To be located on a parcel that has direct frontage onto the right-of-way of a "Freeway/Expressway" or "Thoroughfare" as defined by § 10.7.2.2, below. (b) Classified in Table 4.6-1 of this UDO under any of the following land use subheadings: Accommodations and Group Living General Sales and Service (except for Wholesale Trade) Arts, Recreation and Entertainment Education, Public Administration, Health Care, and Institutional Industrial and Manufacturing Uses (except as exempted under § 10.7.2.3) Transportation, Communication, and Utilities 10.7.2.2 The following highways and roadways are classified as a "Freeway/Expressway" or "Thoroughfare" as included in the City of Sanford/Lee County Thoroughfare Plan (adopted April 1992), except segments that parallel U.S. 1 as identified by an (*) below: • US 15-501 • US 1 (including parallel roadway segments as described below*) • US 421 /Homer Blvd. • US 421 Bypass • NC 87 • NC 78/Tramway Rd./Main St./ Broadway Rd. (from US 1-15-501 to the County line, east of Broadway)