Item 5: Action - Ord. on Land Use Code Amend - Infill Standards

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HANSEN Alissa H From:Shane MacRhodes <shanerh@mac.com> Sent:Thursday, April 19, 2012 4:05 PM To:HANSEN Alissa H Cc:SHOEMAKER Lee; INERFELD Rob; DUNBAR Reed C; SELSER Lindsay R; Holly McRae; Rex Fox; Richard Hughes Subject:Bike Parking Code Changes for Multi-Family Housing I serve on the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee for the City of Eugene. We made several recommendations for improving the multi-family housing bike parking code changes. One of the major recommendations that was not taken was to increase the quantity of bike parking in that code. Currently the code is not up to the standard it should be, especially for student housing around campus. This area of our city has the highest bike ridership and yet there is more parking space requirement for car spaces than bike spaces. Just riding around the area you see the issue- bikes locked up to railings, fences, decks, and other facilities for We need to change this code now to require more lack of good bike parking for everyone in a building! parking at multi-family housing! The Bicycle and Pedestrian Strategic Plan (2008) was the formation document for the BPAC and it calls out bike parking as a major issue to be analyzed and revamped. I recently found a 2005 study done by the City and the UO looking at the bike parking code and making recommendations. At our current rate that report will be 10 years old by the time we make changes. These code changes don't come up that often- we need to make them We can't wait for a "big picture bike parking code change" when possible.. I also worked on the Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plan (2010-2011) and during that process it was decided we would not address the bike parking code changes as part of that plan (which the advisory committee was told when we started would be part of that process). How much longer will we wait? Infrastructure dictates use. With new housing going in all the time we need these code changes to dictate better bike parking NOW. Thanks for your time and attention to this matter, Shane MacRhodes BPAC Member League of American Bicyclists Instructor GEARs member & volunteer Safe Routes to School Program Manager cc: City Transportation Planning Staff, BPAC Co-Chairs, & GEARs President 1