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Royal Oak planning staff presents history and data showing many properties fall short of current parking rules
Summary
Planning staff reviewed decades of ordinance changes and a seven-corridor compliance study that found a majority of commercial properties do not meet today's off-street parking requirements; commissioners agreed further study and targeted occupancy counts are needed before any code changes.
Planning staff told the Royal Oak Planning Commission on Tuesday that a historical review and a recent corridor analysis show widespread noncompliance with the city's current off-street parking standards and recommended further study before any ordinance changes.
"We broke it out in two portions," Joseph Murphy, director of planning, said as he described a staff analysis of every multifamily and commercial site in the city. "The analysis concluded that 78% of all the multifamily housing built in Royal Oak prior to 2002 couldn't meet the parking standards that we have today... Of the 222 sites that are multifamily built prior to 2002, 61% had fewer than 1.5 parking spaces per unit." Murphy emphasized staff does not intend to propose ordinance amendments before the…
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