Unified Development Ordinance, 34th Supplement, October 2024

Article 8.4. New and Existing Streets| CHAPTER 8. ​SUBDIVISION & SITE PLAN STANDARDS

Article 8.4. New and Existing Streets Sec. 8.4.1. General Provisions

c. For a site in district other than a Residential (R-) district that is smaller than a half acre or where the primary use is in the Industrial use category. d. If the connection would require crossing a USGS blueline stream. Sec. 8.3.6. Design Alternates Relating to Blocks, Lots and Access ( Article 8.3 ) A. The Planning Commission or Design Review Commission performing the quasi judicial duties of the Planning Commission (as designated by the City Council) shall conduct a duly noticed, evidentiary hearing, in accordance with Sec. 10.2.18, and approve a design alternate from the provisions of Sec. 8.3.2, 8.3.4 and 8.3.5 relating to blocks, lots and access, upon a showing of all of the findings set forth below: 1. The approved design alternate is consistent with the intent of Sections 8.3.2, 8.3.4 and 8.3.5; 2. The approved design alternate does not increase congestion or compromise safety; 3. The approved design alternate does not conflict with an approved or built roadway construction project adjacent to or in the vicinity of the site (no design alternate shall be approved when the City Council has authorized a roadway project in the vicinity, where the roadway design has not yet been finalized); and 4. The design alternate is deemed reasonable due to one or more of the following: a. Given the existing physical environment, compliance is not physically feasible; b. Compliance would not meaningfully improve connectivity; c. Compliance is not compatible with adjacent use[s]; or d. The burden of compliance is not reasonable given the size of the site or intensity of the development.

This Article describes regulations for the construction and acceptance of streets and streetscapes throughout the City. It is intended to address when street and streetscape improvements are appropriate through the application of the identified street types in Article 8.5. The City has adopted a separate Street Design Manual which provides further details. A. Intent 1. The intent of these regulations is to provide the method of application and installation of new streets and streetscapes or expansion of existing streets and streetscapes. 2. Design adjustments approved by the Planning Commission pursuant to Sec. 10.2.18 may be appropriate when the applicant can prove the showings identified in Sec. 10.2.18 in a quasi-judicial public hearing. B. Applicability 1. Any new development activity and any addition or repair subject to the requirements of Sec. 10.2.5.and Sec. 10.2.8. must meet street type and streetscape standards of this Article 8.4 and 8.5, or adopted Streetscape Plan, as applicable, for streets abutting the subject property. When a development plan proposes the construction of anew street or expansion of an existing street the requirements of this Article apply. In the event there is an adopted Streetscape Plan that applies to the subject property, the standards of the Streetscape Plan shall apply in lieu of the standards of Articles 8.4 and 8.5. 2. Sidewalks, streets, and street trees must be installed and constructed in accordance with this Article and the Raleigh Street Plan Map. The streetscape types identified in Article 8.5 shall be applied based on the zoning and frontage type applied to the property. 3. In the downtown area bounded at the northern edge by a line beginning at the northwest corner of the intersection of W. North Street and N. West Street; running east to the northeast corner of the intersection of E. North Street and N. Person Street; running north to the northeast corner of the intersection of N. Person Street and Oakwood Avenue; running

Supp. No. 34

8 – 16 Published October 2024

Part 10: Unified Development Ordinance City of Raleigh, North Carolina