Fiscal Note
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2nd SUBSTITUTE - Amending Sections 28.211, 28.061, 28.072, 28.082 and 28.091 and Creating Section 28.141(8)(e) of the Madison General Ordinances to create a new use, Electric Vehicle Charging Facility, and to require that certain parking facilities are constructed or reconstructed to include a specified amount of Electric Vehicle Ready Spaces and Electric Vehicle Installed Spaces.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance addresses charging stations and charging facilities for electric cars. Because of the different needs associated with them, this ordinance does not address electric bicycles, which will have to be addressed in a separate ordinance. That is consistent with recent state law changes that exclude electric bicycles from the definition of “motor vehicle”.
This ordinance would create a new use in the Zoning Code, Electric Vehicle Charging Facility. This would be a stand-alone facility existing for the purpose of providing electric vehicle charging on a retail basis-like a gas station. These facilities may not also sell other types of vehicle fuel, such as gasoline. Under this ordinance, these facilities would be permitted uses in the Neighborhood Mixed-Use (NMX), the Traditional Shopping Street (TSS), Mixed-Use Center (MXC), Commercial Center Transitional (CC-T), Commercial Center (CC), Downtown Core (DC), Urban Office Residential (UOR), Urban Mixed Use (UMX), Traditional Employment (TE), Suburban Employment (SE), Suburban Employment Center (SEC), Employment Campus (EC), Parks and Recreation (PR), and Airport (AP) districts.
This ordinance also creates a requirement that certain commercial and residential parking facilities of a certain size and constructed after the effective date of this ordinance be constructed so that up to 50% of all spaces are electric vehicle ready (served with conduit/raceways and panel capacity to allow for the future installation of an EV changing station) and up to 1...
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