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Planning commission recommends parking ordinance changes, flags bicycle standards and shared-parking language for refinement
Summary
The Sandpoint Planning and Zoning Commission on June 17 voted to forward a set of off-street parking and loading code amendments to city council with several changes requested by commissioners, including referencing council bicycle parking standards, adjusting bicycle-space ratios, and adding stronger shared-parking protections.
The Sandpoint Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval to city council on June 17 of wide-ranging amendments to the off-street parking and loading chapter of the Sandpoint City Code, following a staff presentation by City Planner Bill Dean and extended commissioner discussion.
"The three big things that this ordinance really does is that it creates requirements for off street parking and commercial a for residential with an in lieu option," Dean told the commission as he summarized key changes proposed in the red-line draft. Staff materials showed the rewrite would clarify parking location, access, surfacing and landscaping standards; reinstate a residential in-lieu option; expand a downtown parking-exempt area along Superior into roughly 14 acres (about 25–26 parcels); and add clearer rules for alley…
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