Wendell City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
CHAPTER 1
PURPOSE AND APPLICABILITY
Sections
- 1.1 - Title
- 1.2 - Intent
- 1.3 - Authority
- 1.4 - Jurisdiction
- 1.5 - Compliance or Required Conformance to UDO Provisions
- 1.6 - Relation to Prior Zoning and Subdivision Ordinances
- 1.7 - Conflict with Other Laws
- 1.8 - Official Zoning Map
- 1.9 - Conformance with Adopted Plans
- 1.10 - Interpretation
- 1.11 - Effective Date
- 1.12 - Violations Continue
- 1.13 - Validity
CHAPTER 2
DISTRICT PROVISIONS
Sections
- 2.1 - General Intent
- 2.3 - Use Categories and Tables of Permitted Uses
- 2.4 - Open Space Conservation (OSC)
- 2.5 - Rural Agricultural (RA) (Old RA)
- 2.6 - Rural Residential (RR)
- 2.7 - Residential Districts (RR, R2, R3, R4, R7)
- 2.8 - Neighborhood Center (NC) (Old O&I and CN)
- 2.9 - Corridor Mixed-Use (CMX) (Old CS and CH)
- 2.10 - Community Center (CC)
- 2.11 - Downtown Mixed-Use (DMX) (Old CD, DROD and DDOD)
- 2.12 - Manufactured Home District (MH) (Old MH)
- 2.13 - Highway Commercial (CH) (Old CH)
- 2.14 - Manufacturing & Industrial (M&I) (Old M&I)
- 2.15 - Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) (Old NT & PUD)
- 2.16 - Manufactured Housing Overlay (MHO) (Old MHOD)
- 2.17 - Gateway Overlay (GO) (Old SHOD)
- 2.18 - Conditional Districts (CD)
- 2.19 - Planned Unit Developments (PUD)
CHAPTER 5
BUILDING TYPES AND DESIGN STANDARDS
Sections
- 5.1 - Purpose and Intent
- 5.2 - Applicability
- 5.3 - General Building Design Requirements
- 5.4 - Exceptions
- 5.5 - Building Heights
- 5.6 - Encroachments
- 5.7 - Building Type Summary Table
- 5.8 - General Design Requirements for Residential Building Types
- 5.9 - Building Type: House
- 5.10 - Townhouse Buildings
- 5.11 - Apartment Buildings
- 5.12 - General Design Requirements for Building Types: Mixed-Use, Commercial, Civic, Institutional
- 5.13 - Mixed-Use Building
- 5.14 - Commercial Building
- 5.15 - Civic
- 5.16 - Institutional
CHAPTER 6
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Sections
- 6.1 - Purpose and Intent
- 6.2 - Land Suitability
- 6.3 - Neuse River Basin Riparian Buffers (NRBs)
- 6.4 - Sedimentation and Erosion Control
- 6.5 - Pre-Development Site Grading
- 6.6 - Stormwater Runoff Provisions: Post-Construction Stormwater Ordinance
- 6.7 - Stream Corridor Buffers (Stream Protection)
- 6.8 - Flood Damage Protection Ordinance
CHAPTER 8
TREE PROTECTION AND LANDSCAPING
Sections
- 8.1 - Purpose and Intent
- 8.2 - Applicability
- 8.3 - General Provisions
- 8.4 - Landscape Plan
- 8.5 - Tree Protection
- 8.6 - Buffers and Screening
- 8.7 - Subdivision Plantings
- 8.8 - Street Tree Plantings
- 8.9 - Street Yards
- 8.10 - Parking Lot Screening
- 8.11 - Parking Lot Landscaping
- 8.12 - General Installation and Maintenance Standards
CHAPTER 9
CIRCULATION AND CONNECTIVITY
Sections
- 9.1 - Purpose and Intent
- 9.2 - General Infrastructure Design Guidelines
- 9.3 - General Provisions for Street Design
- 9.4 - Permitted Street Sections
- 9.5 - Arterial and Collector Street Plan Conformity
- 9.6 - Reserved.
- 9.7 - Street Connectivity
- 9.8 - Intersections
- 9.9 - Access Management
- 9.10 - Transportation Impact Analysis
CHAPTER 11
LIGHTING
Sections
- 11.1 - Purpose and Intent
- 11.2 - General Standards
- 11.3 - Design Procedures and Illumination Levels
- 11.4 - Additional Standards for Lighting in Parking Lots and Outdoor Areas
- 11.5 - Additional Standards for Gas Station/Convenience Store Aprons and Canopies
- 11.6 - Additional Standards for Lighting of Outdoor Display Areas (Car Lots, etc.)
- 11.7 - Lighting of Buildings and Landscaping
- 11.8 - Outdoor Sports Fields
- 11.9 - Sign Lighting
- 11.10 - Street Lighting
- 11.11 - Walkways, Bikeways/Greenways and Parks (Sections to be lighted only)
- 11.12 - Lighting Plan Requirements
- 11.13 - Nonconformities
- 11.14 - Exemptions
CHAPTER 12
SIGNS
Sections
- 12.1 - General Purpose and Intent
- 12.2 - Applicability
- 12.3 - General Provisions
- 12.4 - Computation of Signage Area
- 12.5 - Computation of Sign Height
- 12.6 - Signage Types & Requirements
- 12.7 - Permitted Principal Use Signs
- 12.8 - Signs Not Requiring a Permit
- 12.9 - Prohibited Signs
- 12.10 - Sign Illumination
- 12.11 - Maintenance and Upkeep of Signs
- 12.12 - Non-Conforming Signs
- 12.13 - Penalties for Violations
- 12.14 - Alternative Standards for Master Planned Developments
CHAPTER 13
NONCONFORMITIES
Sections
- 13.1 - Purpose and Applicability
- 13.2 - Summary Applicability Matrix
- 13.3 - Nonconforming Lots
- 13.4 - Nonconforming Uses and Structures
- 13.5 - Nonconforming Manufactured Homes and Mobile Home Parks
- 13.6 - Nonconforming Accessory Uses and Structures
- 13.7 - Nonconforming Signs
- 13.8 - Nonconforming Landscaping, Screening, and Lighting
- 13.9 - Nonconforming Street Frontages
- 13.10 - Nonconforming Plans
- 13.11 - Appeals and Modifications
CHAPTER 15
ADMINISTRATION
Sections
- 15.1 - Purpose and Intent
- 15.2 - General Applicability
- 15.3 - Administrator
- 15.4 - Administrative Permit Procedures—General Provisions
- 15.5 - Floodplain Development Permits
- 15.6 - Site Plans
- 15.7 - Minor Subdivisions
- 15.7A - Family Subdivisions
- 15.8 - Exception Plat Subdivision
- 15.9 - Major Subdivisions
- 15.10 - Additional Procedures for Minor and Major Subdivisions
- 15.11 - Text Amendments
- 15.12 - Map Amendments (Rezonings)
- 15.13 - Conditional Districts
- 15.14 - Vested Rights
- 15.15 - Special Use Permits
- 15.16 - Administrative Appeals
- 15.17 - Variances
- 15.18 - Modification of Dimensional Standards
- 15.19 - Legislative Procedures—General Provisions
- 15.20 - Administrative Design Adjustment
CHAPTER 16
DEVELOPMENT PLAN REQUIREMENTS
Sections
- 16.1 - Purpose and Intent
- 16.2 - Reserved
- 16.3 - Environmental Survey
- 16.4 - Sketch Plan Requirements
- 16.5 - Master Plan/Preliminary Plan Requirements
- 16.6 - Construction Document Requirements
- 16.7 - Final Plat Requirements
- 16.8 - Landscape Plan Requirements
- 16.9 - Lighting Plan Requirements
- 16.10 - Architectural Plans
- 16.11 - Traffic Impact Analysis (TIA)
- 16.12 - Floodplain Development Permit Requirements
- 16.13 - Stormwater Permit Requirements
- 16.14 - Required Notes and Certifications
- 16.15 - Record Plat Requirement
CHAPTER 17
INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT REQUIREMENTS
Sections
- 17.1 - General Infrastructure Improvement Requirements
- 17.2 - Street Improvements
- 17.3 - Street Name Signs
- 17.4 - Traffic Control Signs, Signals, and Markings
- 17.5 - Street Lights
- 17.6 - Sidewalks
- 17.7 - Storm Drainage in Public Streets
- 17.8 - Storm Drainage Not in Public Streets
- 17.9 - Drinking Water and Sanitary Sewer Improvements
- 17.10 - Open Space Dedication
- 17.11 - Placement of Monuments and Markers
- 17.12 - Fire Hydrants
- 17.13 - Other Utilities and Services
- 17.14 - Utility Easements
- 17.15 - Development Entrance Markers and Landscaped Medians
- 17.16 - Construction in Public Right-of-Way and Easements
- 17.17 - Guarantee of Required Improvements and Warranty Against Defects in Stormwater Improvements
APPENDIX D
WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS ORDINANCE3
Sections
- I.- Purpose and Legislative Intent.
- II. - Definitions.
- III. - Approvals Required for Wireless Facilities and Wireless Support Structures.
- IV. - Administrative Review and Approval Process.
- V. - Special Use Permit Process.
- VI. - General Standards and Design Requirements.
- VII. - Miscellaneous Provisions.
- VIII. - Wireless Facilities and Wireless Support Structures in Existence on the Date of Adoption of this Ordinance.