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Final Passage of 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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CITY OF ALAMEDA ORDINANCE NO. _________
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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
WHEREAS, in 2018, the City Council adopted the City of Alameda Transportation Choices Plan, which identifies changes to parking requirements as a high priority, near-term project; and
WHEREAS, in 2019, the City Council adopted the City of Alameda Climate Action and Resiliency Plan (CARP), which showed that seventy percent of Alameda's greenhouse gas emissions come from the Transportation sector, and calls for eliminating minimum parking requirements and requiring new developments to provide electric vehicle charging stations; and
WHEREAS, national and regional studies have shown that off-street automobile parking requirements can significantly increase the costs of housing, undermine efforts to increase transit use, walking and biking, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change; and
WHEREAS, many of the current off-street parking regulations are inconsistent with regional policies and City policies related to transit use, housing supply, air quality, and climate change contained in the Housing Element of the General Plan, the City's Transportation Choices Plan, and the City's CARP; an...
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