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File #: 25-2201    Version: 1 Name: 1/20/26 - UDC Amendment - Bicycle and Vehicle Parking
Type: Ordinance Status: Second Reading
File created: 1/20/2026 In control: City Council
On agenda: 2/19/2026 Final action:
Enactment date: 1/20/2026 Enactment #: ORD-26-01
Title: An Ordinance to Amend Section 5.19 of Chapter 55 (Unified Development Code) of Title V (Bicycle and Vehicle Parking) CPC Recommendation: Approval (8 Yes, 0 No) (ORD-26-01)
Attachments: 1. ORD-26-01 Briefed.pdf, 2. Ordinance (Bicycle and Vehicle Parking) Track Changes.pdf, 3. Ordinance (Bicycle and Vehicle Parking) Clean.pdf, 4. Ordinance (Bicycle and Vehicle Parking) Original.pdf, 5. Staff Report CPC 2025-11-05 (Bike Parking).pdf, 6. Staff Report CPC 2025-11-18 (Bike and Vehicle Parking).pdf, 7. 11-5-25 CPC Minutes.pdf, 8. 11-18-25 CPC Minutes.pdf
Related files: 24-1827, 25-0159, 25-1361, 25-1822, 25-2212

Title

An Ordinance to Amend Section 5.19 of Chapter 55 (Unified Development Code) of Title V (Bicycle and Vehicle Parking) CPC Recommendation: Approval (8 Yes, 0 No) (ORD-26-01)

Memorandum

The Planning Commission and staff identified improvements to the City’s bicycle parking requirements and standards given the City’s goals to increase bicycle ridership and to enhance usability, design, and accessibility of bicycle parking. Staff and Commissioners discussed possibilities for updates at the January 28, 2025 meeting of the Ordinance Revisions Committee (ORC). Based on the feedback received, staff held meetings with community groups, conducted site visits, reviewed parking guides, and consulted bicycle parking ordinances in other cities. Staff presented a summary of this further research and draft language at the July 22, 2025 meeting of the ORC.

 

Amendments for the following changes were presented to the Planning Commission on November 5, 2025:

 

                     Simplified formatting for the required bicycle parking table

                     The addition of barrier-free parking requirements

                     Increased bicycle parking requirements for multi-family developments and decreased Class A requirements in downtown districts

                     Language clarifying acceptable locations for all classes of bicycle parking

                     A reformatted design of bicycle parking facilities section to clarify requirements for each parking class, including dimensional standards and other requirements to make racks more user-friendly

                     Language clarifying access requirements and encouraging wayfinding signage

                     Separating the vehicle parking requirements from the bicycle parking requirements and condensing the required vehicle parking table.

 

This list also included changes to the vehicle parking because, while preparing the proposed ordinance language for bicycle parking, the opportunity arose to also simplify the unnecessarily unwieldy vehicle parking requirements tables. Since minimum parking requirements were previously removed, and bicycle parking requirements are proposed to be removed, Table 5.19-1 and Table 5.19-2 only regulate electric vehicle requirements (which are often the same across land uses) and maximum parking limits (which only affect a handful of land uses). Therefore, this table can condense vehicle parking requirements following the simplified structure of the proposed bicycle parking tables while carrying forward requirements that meet the City’s parking goals. This proposed amendment is to make the required parking table more user-friendly; no major substantive changes are proposed to the vehicle parking requirements.

 

Following the public hearing and discussion, Planning Commission postponed action so additional changes could be incorporated, including:

 

                     Added a reference to Section 5.19.8.A, which was inadvertently omitted

                     Updated required bicycle parking for all accessory uses to none

                     Removed the following primary uses from the exceptions to required bicycle parking: adult foster care; emergency shelter; funeral services; parks, recreation, and open space; transportation facilities; agriculture (greenhouse, barn, borrow pit); and outdoor storage.

                     Added clarifying language about rack types and placement

                     Updated language regarding acceptable alternative designs and locations for bicycle parking

                     General language and formatting updates for clarity and consistency

 

The attached ordinance was recommended for approval by the Planning Commission after a continued public hearing and discussion on November 18, 2025. Because the changes in the attached ordinance can be hard to follow in the traditional tracked-changes format used for ordinances that amend code sections, the original content of Section 5.19 and a final “clean” version of Section 5.19 have been attached as well.

 

Attachments:                     Ordinance (Bicycle and Vehicle Parking) Clean

                     Ordinance (Bicycle and Vehicle Parking) Original

                     Ordinance (Bicycle and Vehicle Parking) Track Changes

                     November 5, 2025 Planning Staff Report

                     November 18, 2025 Planning Staff Report

                     November 5, 2025 Planning Commission Minutes

                     November 18, 2025 Planning Commission Minutes
Staff

Prepared by:                     Mariana Melin-Corcoran, City Planner

Reviewed by:                     Brett Lenart, Planning Manager

                     Derek Delacourt, Community Services Area Administrator

Approved by:                     Milton Dohoney Jr., City Administrator

Body

(See Attached Ordinance)