OVERLAY DISTRICTS An overlay district is a zoning tool that applies an additional set of regulations on top of an underlying zoning district(s) to establish stricter standards for development. The following overlay districts aim to manage certain environmentally sensitive or visually important areas, establishing design, use, or other standards in addition to the requirements of the underlying base district(s).
Historic District & Landmarks Overlay (HL-O) This district is intended to provide additional protections and controls to preserve the special character of properties and structures located within locally designated Historic Districts as well as to individual Historic Landmarks. Historic Districts include: | Wake Forest Local Historic District and Local Historic Landmarks | Wake Forest National Register Historic District | Glen Royall Mill Village | Downtown Wake Forest National Register Historic District For more information on National Register Historic Districts, see page 71 . Glen Royall Mill Village Character Preservation Overlay (MVCP-O) This district is intended to preserve and protect the specific historic and unique neighborhood character found within the Glen Royall Mill Village National Register Historic District.
Special Highway Overlay (SH1-O and SH2-O)
Watershed Protection Overlays These districts are intended to preserve water quality in the Town’s water supply watersheds to provide safe drinking water. They establish regulations that ensure the availability of public water supplies at an acceptable level of water quality for present and future residents, and include the following overlays: | Falls Lake Watershed Protection Overlay (Falls Lake-Critical Area & Falls Lake- Watershed Management Area) | Richland Creek Watershed Protection Overlay (Richland Creek-Critical Area & Richland Creek-Watershed Management Area) | Smith Creek Watershed Protection Overlay (Smith Creek-Critical Area & Smith Creek Watershed Management Area) | Little River Watershed Protection Overlay (Little River-Watershed Management Area)
This district is intended to protect and preserve the natural scenic beauty along major access corridors located in the Town’s zoning jurisdiction. It is also intended to protect the carrying capacity of these major thoroughfares by reducing the hazards arising from unnecessary points of ingress and egress and cluttered roadside development. The overlay district is also designed to reduce the costs of future highway expansions by protecting the associated highway corridors at the time of development. Required Shopfront (SF) This district is intended to implement vibrant, pedestrian-friendly areas in Form-Based Districts, or districts in which development is regulated primarily based on physical form rather than land use. It ensures that the ground floors of buildings in designated blocks are designed using either shopfront and awning, gallery, or arcade private frontage. Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) This district is intended to allow the development of fully integrated, mixed use, pedestrian-oriented neighborhoods to minimize traffic congestion, suburban sprawl, infrastructure costs and environmental degradation. This district is a planned development district as it is created through the combination of other form-based districts as subdistricts under the umbrella of the TND.
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