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Planners weigh parking code changes after Riverside Flats reapproval clashes with updated standards
Summary
City staff used the Riverside Flats project as a case study for potential revisions to Riverdale’s multifamily parking rules after code changes increased the required parking ratio and left an approved site plan short of meeting the new standard.
Riverdale Planning Commission commissioners on March 25 began a multi‑meeting review of the city’s parking regulations for multifamily development after staff identified a mismatch between an earlier site approval and current parking requirements.
Jared Cooper, director of community development, presented the Riverside Flats project (the former Leslie’s Mobile Home Park site) as a case study. Under the original approval the project was required to provide 263 parking stalls (about a 1.73 ratio per unit) and had received approval to provide 279 stalls. Cooper said the current code requires 342 stalls (a 2.25 ratio), and “there’s no way for them to meet the 3 42 stalls without removing units. And so basically what they’d have to do to meet the…
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