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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 bic...
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