WABA is reviewing the Office of Planning's draft of its proposed Bike Parking amendments to the zoning regulations wiht an eye on formally commenting on them.
You can read the regulations and comment on them here.
A summary of critical parts:
These regulations tie the number of bike parking spaces to the size of the building - instead of to how much car parking the building has. This is good, because I could forsee a building that decides that, due to its proximity to transit, it doesn't need any car parking, but such a building would still need bicycle parking.
It sets a maximum requirement of 100 short term spaces for any building, which sounds reasonable.
No building will be required to just have 1 short term or 1 long term space. If the size of the building is large enough to require 1, it bumps up to 2, but a building could have a requirement of 0. Again this sounds reasonable.
Short term bike parking is required to be within 50 feet of the primary door. Long term parking must be inside the building and no more than one floor from the ground floor.
Buildings larger than 25,000 sq. ft in gross floor area will be required to provide showers, lockers (starting at 2 but maxing out at 6).
These regulations apply to new buildings or buildings that go through a substantial change.
Not sure I like this wording:
Long term parking must be inside the building and no more than one floor from the ground floor.
In that the floor that is picked as the ground froor should matter, as it should be any floor that is directly accessable from the outside. For example a build could have doors leading directly to the sidewalk on foor 2 but also have a ramp down that gives access to floor 1.
Posted by: Eli | October 21, 2010 at 10:02 AM
Eli, that was my wording - I was trying to summarize. You should read the regulations themselves and see if that sounds better.
Posted by: washcycle | October 21, 2010 at 08:32 PM
I forgot to mention that one of the requirements is that "Sexually-based Business Establishments" are required to have 1 LT and one ST parking space for every 10,000. Which is great for those of us who bike to sexually based business establishments.
Posted by: washcycle | October 21, 2010 at 08:34 PM
@wash: SBEs - Does that include prenatal care?
Posted by: Ron Alford | October 21, 2010 at 09:27 PM
I have no idea what that refers to, but I assumed it meant strip clubs.
Posted by: washcycle | October 21, 2010 at 09:41 PM