17.117.010 - Title, purpose, and applicability.

The provisions of this chapter shall be known as the bicycle parking requirements. The purpose of these regulations is to require secure and adequate long term and short term parking for bicycles, thereby promoting alternative transportation, providing additional, more sustainable transportation choices for residents and commuters, and reducing traffic congestion and air pollution. These requirements shall apply to the indicated activities as specified hereinafter.

(Ord. 12884 § 2 (part), 2008)

17.117.020 - Bicycle parking required for new and existing uses.

A.

Bicycle Parking Shall be Provided for New Facilities and Additions to Existing Facilities. Bicycle parking as prescribed hereafter shall be provided for activities occupying facilities, or portions thereof, which are constructed, established, wholly reconstructed, or moved onto a new lot after the effective date of the bicycle parking requirements, or of a subsequent rezoning or other amendment thereto establishing or increasing bicycle parking for such activities, except to the extent that existing bicycle parking exceeds such requirements for any existing facilities. The required amount of new bicycle parking shall be based on the cumulative increase in floor area, or other applicable unit of measurement prescribed hereafter, after said effective date.

B.

Bicycle Parking Shall be Provided for Remodels. "Remodel" means any proposed physical improvement of an existing structure which requires a building permit but does not include New Facilities or Additions to Existing Facilities.

1.

Remodel projects that are over 10,000 square feet and have an estimated construction cost, excluding seismic retrofit costs, greater than $250,000.00 shall provide the number of short-term bicycle parking spaces prescribed in Sections 17.117.090 to 17.117.120. This amount shall be adjusted to account for changes in the Building Cost Index for the San Francisco Bay Region, as reported in the Engineering News Record. The adjustment shall be made annually, starting in 2009, no sooner than one year from adoption.

2.

Remodel projects that are over 50,000 square feet and have an estimated construction cost, excluding seismic retrofit costs, over $1,000,000.00 shall provide, in addition to short-term bicycle parking, the number of long-term bicycle parking spaces and shower and locker facilities prescribed in Sections 17.117.090 to 17.117.130. This amount shall be adjusted to account for changes in the Building Cost Index for the San Francisco Bay Region, as reported in the Engineering News Record. The adjustment shall be made annually, starting in 2009, no sooner than one year from adoption.

C.

Bicycle Parking Shall be Provided for New Living Units in Existing Facilities. If any facility, or portion thereof, which is in existence on the effective date of the bicycle parking requirements, or of a subsequent rezoning or other amendment thereto establishing or increasing bicycle parking requirements for an activity therein, is altered or changed in occupancy so as to result in an increase on the number of residential living units therein, bicycle parking as prescribed hereafter shall be provided for the new units. However, such bicycle parking need be provided only in the amount by which the requirement prescribed hereafter for the facility after said alteration or change exceeds the requirement prescribed hereafter for the facility as it existed prior to such alteration or change; and such new bicycle parking need not be provided to the extent that existing bicycle parking exceeds the latter requirement.

(Ord. No. 13064, § 2(Exh. A), 3-15-2011; Ord. No. 12939, § 4(Exh. A), 6-16-2009; Ord. 12884 § 2 (part), 2008)

17.117.030 - More than one activity on a lot.

Whenever a single lot contains different activities with the same bicycle requirement, the overall requirement shall be based on the sum of all such activities, and the minimum size prescribed hereafter for which any bicycle parking is required shall be deemed to be exceeded for all such activities if it is exceeded by their sum. Whenever a single lot contains activities with different bicycle parking requirements, the overall requirement shall be the sum of the requirements for each activity calculated separately; provided, however, that the minimum size prescribed hereafter for which any bicycle parking is required shall be deemed to be exceeded on said lot for all activities for which the same or a smaller minimum size, expressed in the same unit of measurement, is prescribed, if said minimum size is exceeded by the sum of all such activities on the lot

(Ord. 12884 § 2 (part), 2008)

17.117.040 - Determination by Director of City Planning.

In the case of activities for which the Director of City Planning is required to prescribe a number of bicycle parking spaces or for which this chapter is not clear or does not prescribe a number of spaces, the Director of City Planning shall base his or her written determination on the number of employees, residents or customers and the nature of operations conducted on the site. Any such written determination shall he subject to appeal pursuant to the administrative appeal procedure in Chapter 17.132.

(Ord. 12884 § 2 (part), 2008)