Planning Board DRAFT Summary Sheet - Maintenance 02-2022
Maintenance Amendment
Code Sections Affected
Section 2.1 Measurements Section 2.3 Definitions Section 3.1.3 Superseding Dimensional Standards Table 4.2.1 Principal Use Table Section 5.2.4 Traffic Impact Analysis Section 5.4.6 Street Yard Standards Section 5.4.7 Foundation Plantings
Key Intent
Perform technical fixes that have been identified in recent months in order to clean up and clarify assorted ordinance provisions
Changes
• The amendment codifies the County’s current practice of rounding, which
applies the general mathematical rule that any calculation or measurement less than 0.5 rounds down to the nearest whole number, and anything 0.5 or greater would round up. (See Section 2.1)
• The amendment adds a definition for Major Subdivision, which is considered any subdivision exceeding the criteria for a minor subdivision. (See Section 2.3)
• The amendment adds provisions allowing for the creation of Special Purpose Utility Lots to reduce the acreage required for necessary public infrastructure.
(See Section 3.1.3)
• The amendment fixes a clerical error by allowing the Senior Living: Assisted
Living Facility use in the B-1 district with a special use permit and subject to use-specific standards. (See Table 4.2.1)
• The amendment modernizes outdated provisions for the submittal, review, approval, and appeals processes for Traffic Impact Analyses and brings them in line with the procedures implemented by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) and Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (WMPO). (See Section 5.2.4)
• The amendment incorporates a current Staff interpretation that multi-family developments in multi-family districts are subject to the same street yard standards as multi-family developments in other districts. (See Section 5.4.6)
• The amendment clarifies how foundation plantings are calculated to better align with the increased building heights recently allowed by the code. The change makes clear that the foundation planting area is based on the area of the first floor of a building face rather than the entire façade with the goal of preventing unintended excessive landscaped areas for taller structures. (See
Section 5.4.7)