
{"id":25440,"date":"2012-04-26T10:29:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=25440"},"modified":"2012-04-25T17:25:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T21:25:24","slug":"boa-talks-parking-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/04\/26\/boa-talks-parking-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"BOA talks parking requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Susan Dickson<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CARRBORO \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Considering several measures that could impact future developers, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen on Tuesday looked at parking requirements for both bicycles and cars.<\/p>\n<p>The board postponed a decision on bike-parking requirements for developments, but members indicated they would likely support requirements. The measure stems from a September 2011 recommendation by the town Transportation Advisory Board that Carrboro establish bike-parking guidelines for new developments and existing projects undergoing major modifications. Included in the guidelines are required amounts of parking for different types of developments. For instance, for a school, one bike parking space is required for every 10 students.<br \/>\nBoard members said they would like to include in the ordinance that certain types of bike parking \u00e2\u20ac\u201c wave, comb and toast designs \u00e2\u20ac\u201c be prohibited in new projects.<\/p>\n<p>Town transportation planner Jeff Brubaker said other designs, like the A, inverted U and post-and-loop racks, were preferred.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot of consensus amongst people who work in this field that they provide a little more security,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The older racks are more susceptible to cutters and things like that.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Board members also said they would like to require that bicycle parking be at least 50 percent covered. The board will revisit the ordinance at a later meeting.<br \/>\nAlso on Tuesday, the board approved a measure amending the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ordinance regarding compact car parking such that parking areas with 10 or more spaces can include up to 40 percent compact car spaces. Previously, the ordinance permitted parking areas to include up to 40 percent subcompact car spaces, with the remainder designated exclusively for compact, mid-size and large cars. Under the changes, the remainder of the spaces would be open to any car.<\/p>\n<p>The approved changes also include adjusting the parking space size for compact cars from 7.5 by 16.5 feet to 8 by 15 feet, for an overall reduction of 3.5 square feet.<\/p>\n<p>Board member Sammy Slade questioned why the town wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t require parking lots to include 40 percent compact spaces instead of just providing the option.<br \/>\nHowever, board member Jacquie Gist said she didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe it was fair to require that.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think eventually people will buy smaller cars when they can afford to, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to play this \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcyou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not even welcome here because you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t afford the kind of car that we think you should be driving,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Board members said they would like to revisit the issue and possibly consider requiring a certain amount of compact spaces up to 40 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARRBORO \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Considering several measures that could impact future developers, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen on Tuesday looked at parking requirements for both bicycles and cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25442,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25440\/revisions\/25442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}