{"id":7028,"date":"2011-05-16T08:14:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T12:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=7028"},"modified":"2011-05-16T08:14:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T12:14:24","slug":"udo-day-23-protective-yards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/udo-2\/2011\/05\/16\/udo-day-23-protective-yards\/","title":{"rendered":"UDO Day 23: Protective Yards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 7 is such a big chapter we could dedicate a couple of weeks to it. But, thankfully, there weren\u2019t too many changes to the current code. We already discussed the changes to the parking code in 7.1, so now we\u2019ll move on to 7.2 \u2014 Landscaping.<\/p>\n<p>While parking lot landscaping generally remains the same, Planning Manager Greg Hallam said, \u201cthere are fewer buffer yards required between different types of commercial uses and between differing residential densities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Remember when we were discussing <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/udo-2\/2011\/04\/25\/udo-day-14-making-the-transition\/\">transitions<\/a> in Chapter 6? Well, they make a comeback in Chapter 7 as protective yards. Street protective yards are also included in Chapter 7, but refer readers back to Chapter 6 for the specific uses for both types.<\/p>\n<p>Some protective yard highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Protective      yards are located around the outer perimeter of the lot and extend to the      property boundary line.<\/li>\n<li>Building      and other structures must be located more than 10 feet away from a      protective yard.<\/li>\n<li>Protective      yards can\u2019t be located on a public right-of-way.<\/li>\n<li>While      vehicle access is allowed in protective yards, cars can\u2019t be parking in      them.<\/li>\n<li>Walls      and fences must not be more than 9 feet high.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><strong><em>Click to view full size.<\/em><\/strong><\/center><br \/>\n<img style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"protective yards\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Protective-Yards__inside.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While parking lot landscaping generally remains the same, Planning Manager Greg Hallam said, \u201cthere are fewer buffer yards required between different types of commercial uses and between differing residential densities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24029,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[134],"tags":[230,186,69,229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24029"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}