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Committee advances ordinance requiring large commercial garages to install EV chargers, accepts waiver process and amendment
Summary
The Land Use Committee advanced an ordinance requiring commercial parking garages with 100+ spaces to install EV charging (10% of spaces or equivalent fast chargers), accepted a director-regulation review amendment, and sent the amended ordinance to the full Board with a recommendation.
The Land Use Committee voted to send an amended ordinance to the full Board that would require commercial parking lots and garages with more than 100 spaces to install electric vehicle charging equipment.
Charles Sheehan of the San Francisco Department of the Environment said the ordinance targets existing commercial parking facilities (about 300 sites citywide) and would require Level 2 charging stations at 10% of parking spaces, or a functionally equivalent number of fast chargers, with a compliance date of 01/01/2023. "It's going to target commercial garages and parking lots with 100 or more parking spaces," Sheehan said, describing the scope and the department's intent to pair municipal initiatives with private-sector requirements.
Sheehan framed the…
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