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Planning staff propose text amendments to UDO to allow interstate billboards, relaxed window signage rules and EV-charging flexibility
Summary
Mooresville planning staff on April 30 presented three proposed text amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance to allow interstate/billboard signage in a corridor mixed‑use district, expand allowable window signage placement and provide flexibility for electric‑vehicle charging standards.
Mooresville planning staff on April 30 presented three small text amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) that they said are intended to provide more flexibility to the business community and advance the town's economic vitality goals.
"This is a small batch of text amendments," Erica Martin, a planning department staff member, said during the pre‑agenda briefing. The packet listed the amendments as TA 2025-0102 and TA 2025-0103 (batch 4 amendments).
The three proposed changes are: - Interstate signage: an amendment to allow interstate signs or billboards in the Corridor Mixed Use district. Planning staff said the request came from Carolina Media Group, which has proposed a billboard on the Lowe's campus and another site farther north near Lake Walk. If approved, the signs would remain subject to existing sign-location and separation requirements. - Window signage: an amendment to allow window signage above door level (currently guidance is limited to ground‑level door/window areas). Martin said this change would formalize what many businesses already do and would allow up to 50 percent of windows to be covered without limiting the placement to the ground floor — "this amendment would actually bring those businesses into conformance," she said, citing examples such as Walgreens and Southern Notions downtown. - Electric‑vehicle charging: a change to remove EV-charging specifications from the UDO and instead provide developers flexibility within parking standards. Planning staff said the proposal was brought forward by the town of Morrisville.
Martin said the amendments align with the town's strategic planning goals for individual and community economic vitality and that commissioners had time to discuss the items in their briefing earlier in the day. "Overall, they provide more flexibility to our business community," she said.
Councilmembers asked clarifying questions about how the window‑sign rule would apply across multi‑story buildings, and staff said the existing 50 percent coverage rule would remain but would not be limited to ground-floor windows.
Next steps: planning staff said the items will be discussed in commissioner briefings and that public hearings and formal ordinance actions would be scheduled in follow-up meetings; the pre‑agenda transcript does not record a council vote on the text amendments.
