Omnibus List 2024 (TC-2-24)
Omnibus List 2024 (TC-2-24)
Omnibus List 2024 (TC-2-24): Through the ongoing administration of the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO), staff routinely identifies issues in the code that warrant further review and correction. These issues arise due to a variety of reasons including recent text changes, application of the code to unique situations, and unclear/imprecise language. To ensure continuous improvement of the city’s land development regulations, staff utilizes the omnibus text change program to bundle these corrections and improvements into a single ordinance. Read the draft ordinance.
Items included in the omnibus are modest in their impact and address minor, rather than major, policy areas. The 2024 list contains the following items:
1. Multiple street frontage lots
- Clarifies primary street determinations for Cottage Court developments.
2. Legacy cluster subdivisions
- Clarifies which setbacks apply therein
3. Side wall length
- Clarifies when building articulation requirements apply.
4. Accessory dwelling units
- Revises language regarding building separation for ADUs vs. their integration into the principal building.
5. Accessory dwelling units
- For properties allowed multiple ADUs, the text change notes that the maximum square footages allowed are for each ADU and are not calculated collectively.
6. General Buildings
- Clarifies that minimum ground floor story heights only apply to properties zoned for 7 or more stories that also have an urban frontage.
7. Mixed Use Buildings
- Clarifies that minimum ground floor story heights only apply to properties zoned for 7 or more stories that also have an urban frontage.
8. Green frontage – Open Lots
- Notes that build-to requirements do not apply to open-lots.
9. Urban limited frontage – Open Lots
- Notes that build-to requirements do not apply to open-lots.
10. Urban general frontage – Open Lots
- Notes that build-to requirements do not apply to open lots.
11. Shopfront frontage – Open Lots
- Notes that build-to requirements do not apply to open lots.
12. Shopfront frontage
- Corrects an incorrect cross-reference.
13. Green Plus – Open Lots
- Notes that build-to requirements do not apply to open lots.
14. Green Plus
- Notes which building types are allowed within this frontage.
15. Accessory Dwelling Units
- Corrects an incorrect cross-reference.
16. Accessory Dwelling Units
- Revises language regarding building separation for ADUs vs. their integration into the principal building.
17. Accessory Dwelling Unit – Description
- Corrects an incorrect cross-reference.
18. Accessory Dwelling Unit
- Revises language regarding building separation for ADUs vs. their integration into the principal building.
19. Frequent Transit Development Option
- Corrects lettering sequence.
20. Campus zoning district
- Removes the requirement for Campus zoned property to be rezoned if a portion of Campus zoned property is sold to another party.
21. Metro-Park Overlay District – Existing Structures, Uses and Impervious Surfaces
- Corrects an incorrect cross-reference.
22. Uses specifically not listed
- Remove language which would otherwise consider those as prohibited uses. The current language does not conform to state law and how uses not listed shall be treated.
23. Event Space – Table of Allowed Uses
- Specifically adds “Event Space” as a specifically listed type of “Indoor Recreation” and notes it as a “Limited Use” in certain districts.
24. Prohibited Uses
- Deletes this section in its entirety as it conflicts with state law on this matter. The prohibitions on storage 2 or more unlicensed, uninspected, wrecked, crushed, dismantled, or partially dismantled automotive vehicles except as temporarily allowed in towing yards for vehicles will be added to the City Code so that it remains enforceable but will no longer be housed within the UDO.
25. Indoor Recreation – Adult Establishment
- Corrects the acronym used for the Manufactured Housing zoning district referenced therein.
26. Indoor Recreation – Event Space
- Adds “Event Space” under this list of various other indoor recreation uses specifically noted within the UDO, defines it and lists use standards for the use.
27. Copy Centers in RX zoning
- Sets a maximum gross floor area for this use in this zoning district.
28. Residential Development Sales Office or Model Home
- Modifies and improves language for the use standards associated with these uses.
29. Encroachments
- Clarifies that transit infrastructure are allowed encroachments within Protective Yards.
30. Plant Material – General Provisions
- Notes that invasive species cannot be used to satisfy the City’s planting requirements.
31. Fences and Walls adjacent to Thoroughfares
- Reorders the existing language to make it clearer.
32. Signs Allowed by District – R-MP
- Deletes a non-existent zoning district reference from this table.
33. Signs Allowed by District – Green Plus
- Adds the Green Plus (-GP) frontage to this table and mirrors the Green (-GR) frontage signage allowances.
34. Special Sign Types – Parking Structure Signage
- Adds “Parking Structure Sign” as a type of special signage and adds specific regulations for these signs.
35. Signs required by the City of Raleigh
- Notes that any such sign required to be installed by the City’s code of ordinances is thereby allowed under the UDO.
36. Construction Surety
- Removes an inapplicable cross-reference.
37. Block Measurement
- Corrects incorrect cross-references.
38. Streetscape Tree Plantings – Understory Tree Allowances
- Notes that special understory tree allowances may only be used beneath overhead Electric utilities, and not for just any type of overhead utility such as cable TV/Internet.
39. Impervious Surface Coverage
- Corrects an incorrect cross-reference.
40. Impervious Surface Coverage
- Corrects an incorrect cross-reference.
41. Impervious Surface Coverage
- Corrects an incorrect cross-reference.
42. Impervious Surface Coverage
- Corrects an incorrect cross-reference.
43. Nitrogen and Phosporous Loading - Applicability
- Corrects an incorrect cross-reference.
44. Board of Adjustment – Composition/Term length
- Increases length of member terms from 2 years to 3 years.
- Notes that the County Commission can appoint County residents, outside of Raleigh’s Extra-territorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) to serve as a County appointee if unable to appoint qualified County residents from within Raleigh’s ETJ.
45. Planning Commission Action - Zoning Conditions
- Amends the timelines around zoning condition submittals.
46. Legislative Hearings by City Council – Zoning Conditions
- Amends the timelines around zoning condition submittals.
47. City Council Action – Zoning Conditions
- Amends the timelines around zoning condition submittals.
48. Tier Two Site Plans
- Clarifies that 1 and 2-family dwellings are not considered a Tier Two type of site plan.
49. Special Use Permits – Expiration
- Amends the UDO language to be consistent with state law and also increases the expiration period for these types of permits from 1 year to 2 years."
50. Variances – Expiration
- Amends the UDO language to be consistent with state law and also increases the expiration period for variances from 1 year to 2 years.
51. Design Alternates – Amenity Area requirements
- Clarifies that Design Alternates may be granted to amenity area requirements.
52. Civil Penalties for Continuing Violations
- Modifies UDO language to be consistent with state law.
53. Administrative Fee
- Removes extraneous information added through a previous codification error.
54. Definitions
- Adds a few definitions to the UDO and clarifies the language therein for a few existing definitions.
Public Meeting Schedule:
This text change is scheduled for a Text Change Committee meeting on September 18. We will be collecting comments here through September 12. Comments after this date should be
submitted directly to Eric Hodge via email."