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The purpose of this Ordinance is to promote the public health, safety, morals, and general welfare of the community, and to ensure that all development within the Town's planning jurisdiction is generally consistent with the Town's adopted policy guidance pertaining to growth and development. More specifically, this Ordinance is intended to pursue the following:
(Ord. 2020-36, passed 12-2-2019)
A. The UDO is intended to protect the health and safety of all Town residents and visitors by ensuring the provision of adequate open space between uses for light, air, and fire safety.
B. The UDO seeks to require appropriate setbacks for buildings and other structures to facilitate the safe movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, ensure the provision of adequate fire lanes, and maintenance of an adequate distance between residential uses and the dust, noise, and fumes created by vehicular traffic.
C. The UDO also seeks to secure the safety of landowners and residents from flooding, fire, seismic activity, and dangers presented from extreme weather events, to the extent possible.
(Ord. 2020-36, passed 12-2-2019)
A. The UDO is intended to establish a compact and convenient arrangement of land uses across the landscape in ways that promote orderly growth and compatibility between different kinds of land uses like residential, commercial, mixed-use, and agriculture.
B. The UDO strives to produce a sustainable balance of land uses (residential, commercial, industrial, etc.) in order to assist with the fiscal wellbeing of the Town and to ensure a diverse tax base.
C. The UDO seeks to promote redevelopment of underutilized sites served by public infrastructure while at the same time protecting existing established development and neighborhoods from incompatible infill and redevelopment.
(Ord. 2020-36, passed 12-2-2019)
A. The UDO intends to protect air and water quality, preserve open space, protect natural resource areas (like wetlands and riparian areas), and preserve a sufficient amount of wildlife habitat.
B. The UDO promotes sustainable development practices, like energy conservation, low-impact development, and alternative modes of transportation that do not contribute to the formation of greenhouse gases.
(Ord. 2020-36, passed 12-2-2019)
A. The UDO seeks to ensure sufficient and adequately functioning infrastructure, including transportation, potable water, wastewater, recreation, stormwater management, and communications through standards requiring dedication of sufficient land for such facilities, and requirements to construct or make payment in-lieu of constructing required infrastructure.
B. The UDO seeks to improve Town-wide and regional connectivity for vehicles, pedestrians, and bicyclists through new extension and connection provisions for greenways, trails, bicycle lanes, sidewalks, and streets.
C. The UDO seeks to coordinate the development of streets with other public facilities so as to better manage and lessen congestion in the streets as well as provisions that ensure the construction of necessary community service facilities.
(Ord. 2020-36, passed 12-2-2019)
The UDO promotes the Town's unique "sense of place" in eastern Wake County by promoting revitalization of the downtown and surrounding areas, encouraging the establishment of new greenways, and establishing new requirements for open space set-asides.
(Ord. 2020-36, passed 12-2-2019)
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