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Planning commissioners debate parking caps, on-street credits, bike parking and EV charging
Summary
At a Feb. planning commission continuation, commissioners and consultants debated draft parking rules (Division 3, section 9.7): proposed maximums, whether on-street spaces should count toward requirements, mixed-use/shared parking, bicycle-parking ratios and adding EV-charging infrastructure to large lots.
Chair Lee and the Cathedral City Planning Commission spent a large portion of their Feb. meeting reviewing draft parking provisions in Division 3 of the proposed development code update.
Consultant Brent Gibbons opened the discussion by describing the section's goals: reduce oversupply, reflect the city's transit environment and provide flexibility for commercial development. Gibbons said the draft asks whether to adopt maximum on-site parking caps and whether on-street spaces should be eligible to count toward a development's required parking.
"The city has a lot of parking as it is right now," Gibbons said, noting walking tours that showed many underused commercial lots and a planning objective to push development closer to the street.
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