Item #E

This suggested amendment proposes to remove conflicting language regarding the buffer strips required along the controlled access highways and interchange ramps and provides consistent formatting.

4.4.4     Thoroughfare Overlay

(B)        Location of District

The Thoroughfare Overlay is established along both sides of existing and planned controlled/limited access highways within the Town's jurisdiction and Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Area, as indicated on the Zoning Map and/or Comprehensive Transportation Plan Thoroughfare Maps. Such highways include, but are not limited to, US 1, US 64, I-40, Cary Town Boulevard (between I-40 and NE Maynard Road), and the Western Wake Expressway. The Thoroughfare Overlay covers all lands within one hundred (100) feet of the right-of-way along both sides of each controlled-access highway, except at interchanges, where the overlay district shall extend back to the established point of the intersecting roadway where the controlled access ends or begins (see Section 4.4.4(D) below).

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(D)        Buffer Requirement

(1)        General Requirement

A buffer strip, with a width extending one hundred (100) feet from and parallel to the right-of-way boundary of the controlled access highway, shall be maintained on all property within the Thoroughfare Overlay.

(2)        Interchange Requirements

A buffer strip width extending fifty (50) feet from and parallel to the right of way for interchange ramps shall be maintained on all property within the Thoroughfare Overlay.

(3)        Reductions

The Town Council may reduce the required width of this buffer strip as part of its approval of the site and/or subdivision plan, taking into consideration: the topography of the area; surrounding land uses, particularly residential uses; the actual location of the corridor; the size and shape of land parcels affected by the buffer; and whether the buffer requirement would render the entire property unusable. In reducing the width of the buffer strip, the Town Council shall ensure that the applicant will provide appropriate landscaping meeting the requirements of Section 4.4.4(D)(4) below. In no event, however, shall the Town Council reduce the required width of the buffer strip to less than thirty (30) feet. See Section 3.19, Minor Modifications.

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