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Public Hearing on Text Amendments to the Land Use Ordinance to Establish Requirements for EV Charging Stations
PURPOSE: The purpose of this agenda item is for the Town Council to consider proposed amendments to the Land Use Ordinance that would add new requirements for EV charging stations and EV ready infrastructure to the existing parking standards in Article XVIII. A draft ordinance has been prepared. The consideration of an amendment to the Land Use Ordinance is a legislative decision; the Council must receive public input before reaching a decision on the draft ordinance.
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DEPARTMENT: Planning
CONTACT INFORMATION: Christina Moon - 919-918-7325, cmoon@townofcarrboro.org; Marty Roupe - 919-918-7333, mroupe@townofcarrboro.org; Patricia McGuire - 919-918-7327, pmcguire@townofcarrboro.org; Nick Herman - 919-929-3905, gnherman@broughlawfirm.com
INFORMATION: Information provided in the most recent Energy and Climate Protection Plan and Community Climate Action Plan implementation update on January 21, 2020, included a memorandum from the Environmental Advisory Board with a request for new provisions to be added to the Land Use Ordinance to require the installation of EV charging stations and EV ready infrastructure for commercial and residential developments involving a certain number of required parking spaces (Attachment B). At the Town Council meeting on April 20th, there was also a request to include similar standards for parking spaces associated with common areas in residential subdivisions.
A draft ordinance has been prepared that closely follows these requests. If adopted, the Land Use Ordinance would be amended with new provisions in three areas: 1) new definitions relating to 'EV charging stations,' 'EV readiness' and 'Green Vehicles;' 2) new requirements for a percentage of parking spaces to be equipped with EV charging stations or EV readiness infrastructure (conduit and panel capacity) for all types of developments ...
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