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Planning commission backs streamlined bicycle‑parking rules, clarifies class substitutions
Summary
The commission advanced amendments to Chapter 55 (section 5.19) simplifying parking tables, tightening Class A requirements downtown, adding oversized spaces and approving a change allowing Class B spaces to substitute for required Class C in some cases; staff will refine wording before council.
The Ann Arbor Planning Commission on April 21 recommended that the mayor and city council adopt amendments to Chapter 55 of the Unified Development Code to simplify vehicle and bicycle parking requirement tables, clarify bike‑parking design and accessibility, and raise some class‑B and oversized bicycle parking requirements.
Planner Melene Cochran described the changes as a reorganization of existing tables with three main…
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