[Durham INC] parking changes in the proposed update to the UDO

[Pat Carstensen]

In the UDO, there is a long list of minimum and maximum parking required for various uses, such as day care requiring 1 space per employee plus 1 per 10 students.  The revised UDO would:
Set the minimum parking in the urban tier at 90% of the values given in the table. (the urban tier is more or less where the old city school system was)Allow by-right 20% reductions in the minimum amount of parking for shared parking.Allow by-right 5% reductions for additional bike parking.Allow by-right 5% reductions for being close to transit.  (How these 3 add up isn't completely clear).Gives a long list of forms of alternative compliance (listed below)Allows a request through a special use permit for further reductions.
I personally think these rules are much too "blunt" -- for example, what would you do differently in a neighborhood that already has permits for residents.  What other restrictions on what can be done by right do folks think we need?
Thanks, pat
-------C. Alternate Forms of Compliance 1. Off-site parking, including publicly-controlled parking: Proposed development can satisfy motor vehicle parking requirements through existing off-site parking not proposed as part of the development site or change of use pursuant to the following criteria: a. All required handicapped accessible parking spacesshall be provided on-site; b. The spaces are not on-street parking spaces; c. The spaces at the donor site are located no further than 1,000 linear feet walking distance to the main entrance of the proposed facility along an existing or proposed public or private (with pedestrian access agreement) paved, handicapped accessible route; d. The walking route to and from the off-site parking does not cross a major thoroughfare or freeway, unless controls are existing or proposed to allow for pedestrian crossing; e. Crossings of right-of-way shall be at-grade at appropriate intersections, and not midblock; f. The spaces provided by the donor site are in excess of the minimum parking requirements for that site, or the shared parking requirements pursuant toparagraph 10.3.1B.8.a, can be satisfied; g. A lease agreement between the record owners shall be required. The owner of the off-site parking area shall enter into a written agreement in a form acceptable to the City or County Attorney, as appropriate, providing that the land comprising the parking area shall never be disposed of except in conjunction with the sale of the building which the parking area serves so long as the facilities are required; and that such agreement shall bind his heirs, successors, and assigns; and h. Residential parking areas cannot serve as off-site parking for non-residential uses. 2. Urban and Compact Neighborhood Tiers, and the CI District: For every twenty-three contiguous feet of street frontage for which there is adjacent permitted on-street parking, the minimum required motor vehicle off-street parking shall be reduced by one space. a. Credit for on-street parking shall only be counted towards one of the uses in any multi-use development. b. Credit shall not be given for a partial space. c. Credit shall not be given for designated handicapped accessible spaces, loading zones, ortaxi stands. d. Credit cannot be used for single-family or duplex residential development. e. On-street parking used to reduce off-street parking is within the public right-of-way and shall remain available for general use subject to public parking standards.  		 	   		  
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