(A) The normal minimum requirements for lot size, setbacks, and frontage may be waived for lots or building sites within an approved planned unit development, provided the spirit and intent of this chapter is not altered based on the interpretations and decisions of the Planning Board.
(B) All streets providing access to a planned unit development and the streets located in the planned unit development shall meet or exceed the minimum requirement for streets as defined in the design standards for roads in § 156.46, excluding § 156.46(B)(3)(b). However, the right-of-way requirements may be waived, but the roadbed shall remain 25 feet and the road surface shall remain 18 feet and the road surface shall be paved 18 feet with asphalt according to NCDOT standards. The street(s) that serve as access from state maintained roads to the PUD, provided they are owned by the developing entity, shall have curb and guttering for a minimum of 85 feet on each side of the entrance access. All streets that do not meet NCDOT standards for maintenance and are not dedicated to the state shall have a legal, recorded maintenance agreement available to every landowner that acquires property in the approved PUD. This agreement shall contain the following information: who will maintain the streets, when will the streets be maintained, how the streets will be maintained, and the associated cost to each landowner for street maintenance. This maintenance agreement may be contained in a declaration recorded pursuant to § 156.45(K). The Planning Board and the planning staff discourages the use of cul-de-sacs in PUD’s, however, if their use cannot be avoided then a minimum requirement of 70 feet in diameter shall be required.
(C) Common open spaces are an important element in a planned unit development. Common open space is defined as a group of parcels or tracts of land designated and intended for use by all residents of the PUD. A minimum of 15% of the total project acreage shall be designated as common open space. Suggested uses may include fitness, recreation, educational, religious or cultural. The common open spaces may include swimming pools, tennis courts, equestrian trails, fitness trails and others, and may contain accessory buildings which cannot be seen from the right-of-way. A pond, lake, large stream or other body of water may be used in conjunction with parcels of land to constitute common open space. Conveyance and maintenance of common open space, recreational areas, and commonly owned facilities shall be in accordance with the North Carolina Planned Community-Act (G.S. Chapter 47F) or other appropriate mechanism acceptable to the planning staff or the Planning Board. The designated common areas shall be shown on the plats recorded with the county's Register of Deeds to restrict the use and future development of the common open spaces.
(D) A planned unit development application shall not be approved unless the developer's plans include either a community water and sewer system, that has the capacity to serve the entire planned unit development, or designs that include connecting to a municipal water and sewer system. The community water and sewer systems shall need approval from the appropriate health agencies (state and local as applicable). Whenever reasonably possible, all proposed planned unit developments shall include installation of underground utilities to include water and sewer lines, electric lines, telephone lines and cable television lines.
(E) Each development shall provide reasonable visual and acoustical privacy for all dwelling units. Fences, insulation, walkways, barriers, and landscaping shall be used, as appropriate, for the protection and aesthetic enhancement of property and the privacy of its occupants. If topographical or other existing barriers within 200 feet of the planned unit development do not provide reasonable privacy for existing uses adjacent to the development, the Planning Board may require the structures on the perimeter of the planned unit development be well screened in a manner which is approved by the Planning Board.
(F) Every planned unit development shall provide at least two off-street parking spaces per dwelling unit and commercial/office parking and loading space according to the following schedule:
(1) Parking space for commercial/office shall consist of one off-street parking space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area.
(2) Loading and unloading space for commercial/office uses shall consist of one space at least 300 square feet in size for each 5,000 square feet of gross floor area.
(Ord. passed 2-3-97; Am. Ord. passed 12-19-22; Am. Ord. passed 8-21-23)