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Cabarrus County Zoning Ordinance <br />Chapter 4- Overlay Districts and Zones <br />Section 4 -17 Additions to existing properties <br />If additions are planned for the properties located along the above mentioned <br />roadways, then these additions shall meet the designated right -of -way and setback <br />as listed in the KANLAGON and Gabarrus GeHnty ThereHghfare Plans Cabarrus Rowan <br />Metropolitan Planning Organization (CRMPO) Comprehensive Transportation Plan, the <br />Comprehensive Transportation Plan Index, and the County's Zoning Ordinance. Any <br />additions, five (5 %) percent or less of the original square footage at the time of <br />adoption of the TOZ, shall be exempt from the TOZ requirements. <br />Section 4 -18 Access points <br />The term access point(s) shall mean a point of ingress and /or egress, which may be <br />either public or private. <br />1. New Lots. All new lots, parcels or divisions of land shall be provided access to the <br />thoroughfare by means of a subdivision street or an entrance either maintained or <br />approved by the State of North Carolina or approved by the Cabarrus County Zoning <br />Ordinance or Subdivision Regulations. Subdivision streets accessing the <br />thoroughfare shall be located at least four (400) hundred feet apart. Where no more <br />than two lots are created within the internal lot in a single block lying within the TOZ, <br />a single vehicular access provision shall be made from the thoroughfare. <br />2. Lots of Record. Any lots of record at the time of the adoption of this Ordinance <br />shall be allowed one access point. However, if lots of records are corner lots then <br />the access point shall be located on the road of minor classification no closer than <br />one hundred twenty -five (125) feet or the greatest possible distance from the <br />intersection with the thoroughfare. <br />3. Corner Lots. Corner lots fronting on two (2) thoroughfares may have one access <br />point from each thoroughfare. However, the access shall meet the one hundred <br />twenty -five (125) foot distance requirement, or the greatest possible distance. <br />4. Additional Access Points An additional access point may be approved, at the <br />discretion of the Zoning Administrator, for access to Commercial or Industrial <br />property. The approval of this additional access point shall require the construction <br />of both a left turn and deceleration lane to serve that entrance. The area of these <br />lanes used for vehicular storage shall be of standard lane width (12 feet) and <br />adequate in length to store a standard tractor - trailer and two automobiles. In no <br />event shall adjacent access points be closer than 100 feet to each other, as <br />measured from the nearest curbs or edges of pavement, excluding any area of the <br />access flared to improve vehicle ingress or egress. This requirement may be waived <br />if no other access to the property would be possible. <br />The additional access point shall be no more than 32 feet in width, and shall be <br />defined by a curb on both ends of the access point. A standard sight triangle (10' by <br />70') shall be maintained on the portion of curb adjoining the access point. No <br />structure, sign, planting, etc. shall be placed in the sight triangle that would interfere <br />Chapter 4 Page 11 of 34 <br />G -1 <br />Revised a ttachment number 3 <br />Page 327 <br />