TAB recommends Boulder council adopt broad parking-code changes, asks staff to study bike parking details

The Transportation Advisory Board voted 3–0 on May 12 to recommend that City Council adopt two draft ordinances implementing the city’s Access Management and Parking Strategy (AMPS), including the elimination of minimum off‑street parking and new on‑street permit and bike‑parking standards.

The recommendation covers two draft ordinances described in staff materials as: an on‑street/neighborhood permit parking ordinance (referred to in TAB papers as ordinance 8700) and an off‑street parking ordinance updating Title 9 (referred to as ordinance 8696). TAB’s motion asked staff to “consider incorporation of comments from Community Cycles and TAB member Michael Ledesma” and to pursue follow‑up work on items raised by board members and the public.

Why it matters: staff told TAB the timing is tied to a recent Colorado law (referred to in the presentation as House Bill 241304) that prohibits local minimum parking requirements for some multifamily and adaptive‑reuse projects inside transit service areas beginning June 30. City staff said adopting city code updates now will give Boulder a regulatory framework as the state changes take effect.

What staff told TAB - Lisa Hood, principal planner in Planning & Development Services, told TAB the off‑street ordinance would remove minimum parking requirements citywide rather than only inside the state’s transit service area; the change is limited to new development and redevelopment and would not be applied retroactively. Hood said the code updates also include shared‑parking rules, revised EV‑charging references in the energy code so EV counts depend on spaces…