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Town of Morrisville · Planning and Zoning Board
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Regular meeting Public facilitiesSchools and educationStormwater and floodingZoning text amendment

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What's on this agenda

The Planning and Zoning Board returns to a UDO text amendment package first raised March 14, covering masonry painting, tobacco and hemp sales, a government building exemption, and stormwater rules. The amendments would let owners paint brick and concrete block on buildings outside the Historic Crossroads Village district, while barring painted signs on any building. They would also add tobacco and hemp shops as a retail use in seven business districts, with distance rules from schools and daycares modeled on Wake County's, after the board asked staff to also map buffers around places of worship, parks and greenways.

A separate change would exempt a planned Public Works facility from the UDO's usual design and material standards; staff say full compliance would add $2.7 million to the project. The package also rewrites the stormwater maintenance section to follow a 2023 state law that caps how much the town can collect in stormwater escrow payments. Staff recommend dropping a fourth proposal, a greenhouse and nursery research use, after board members raised light-pollution concerns in March, and recommend approval of the rest. The board can recommend approval, approval with changes, or denial before the amendments go to the town council.

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Agenda items (11)

Procedural · 8Minutes approval · 1Discussion item · 1Staff or committee report · 1
  1. 1 Call to Order
    Procedural
  2. 2 Pledge of Allegiance
    Procedural
  3. 3 Adoption of Agenda
    Procedural
  4. 4.a Approval of March 14, 2024 Meeting Minutes
    Minutes approval
    The board is asked to approve its draft minutes from the March 14, 2024 meeting.
  5. 5 Presentations
    Procedural
    No presentations are listed under this heading.
  6. 6 Public Comment
    Procedural
  7. 7.a Proposed UDO Text Amendments for Masonry Painting, Greenhouses/Nursery (Research), Tobacco & Hemp Sales, Government Accessory Buildings Exemptions, and Stormwater Management
    Discussion item Public facilitiesSchools and educationStormwater and floodingZoning text amendment
    The amendments would allow painted brick and block outside the Historic Crossroads Village district, add tobacco and hemp retail to seven business districts with school and daycare buffers, exempt a planned Public Works facility from standard design rules, and update stormwater escrow rules under a 2023 state law. Staff recommend dropping a proposed greenhouse and nursery research use over light-pollution concerns and recommend approval of the remaining changes.
  8. 8 New Business
    Procedural
    No new business items are listed under this heading.
  9. 9.a March 2024 Planning Newsletter
    Staff or committee report
    Staff share the March 2024 planning newsletter with the board.
  10. 10 Board Comments
    Procedural
  11. 11 Adjournment
    Procedural

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