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Public Hearing to Consider Introduction of an Ordinance Amending Alameda Municipal Code Chapter XXX to Comprehensively Update Citywide Off-Street Parking and Loading Space Regulations and Make Conforming Changes to Other Zoning Code Sections, as Recommended by the Planning Board. (Planning, Building and Transportation 20962700)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Staff and the Planning Board recommend a comprehensive set of amendments to change the City of Alameda's (City) off-street parking requirements from minimum standards to maximum standards, add new requirements for electric vehicle charging stations, and require transportation demand management programs for all large-scale projects adding new vehicle trips to Alameda's already constrained roadway network. The proposed amendments require changes to Alameda Municipal Code (AMC) Sections 30-2 Definitions, Subsection 30-4.23 Multi-family Residential Combining Zone, Subsection 30-5.18 Accessory Dwelling Units, and Section 30-7 Off-Street Parking and Loading Space Regulations. The amendments are based on the City's policies regarding transit use, climate change, and affordable housing, and are designed to implement specific recommended actions, programs, and strategies in the City's Transportation Choices Plan, Climate Action and Resiliency Plan (CARP), and the 2015-2023 Housing Element.
BACKGROUND
AMC Section 30-7 Off-Street Parking and Loading Space Regulations establishes requirements for minimum off-street parking areas, loading areas, and bicycle parking areas in new developments.
National and regional studies have shown that these types of minimum off-street automobile parking requirements significantly increase the cost of housing, undermine efforts to increase transit use and other environmentally sensitive modes of travel, and undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address the climate emergency. A study by the City of S...
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