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<br />I:\COMMDEV\Grants and Program Reports\Ramsey County Corridor Revitalization Apps 2022\Parking Standards\05_PROJECT FILES\09-19-23 PC Review\EXT_Parking code prelim <br />updates_covermemo_09142023.docx <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />Date: September 14, 2023 <br />To: New Brighton Planning Commission <br />From: Jenni Faulkner, Senior Planner <br />Harry Davis, Planner II <br />Cody Flannery, Planner <br />Subject: Updating Parking and Access Standards <br />City of New Brighton <br />Project No.: T6.130130 <br />I. Goals of the Update <br />The City of New Brighton wants to modernize its outdated parking and access standards to better reflect <br />the community’s needs and to enhance land use, all with equity and climate considerations in mind. <br />Specifically, updates to the parking ordinance(s) will help the City realize the following goals: <br />• Goal 1: Ensuring the city’s parking standards maximize the creation of housing, jobs, and <br />destinations by ensuring that only a necessary amount of parking is required as the city develops <br />and redevelops land <br />• Goal 2: Eliminating unnecessary hard surfaces through parking standard modernization <br />• Goal 3: Creating effective mechanisms for providing deviations from parking standards (when <br />warranted) that may take the form of parking deferrals, parking reductions, shared parking <br />agreements, and/or other mechanisms to create efficient parking outcomes <br />• Goal 4: Establishing appropriate electric vehicle (EV) requirements for new developments <br />• Goal 5: Addressing how rideshare, on-demand ride services, and other modern transportation <br />options can and/or should be reflected in modern parking regulations <br />• Goal 6: Updating interrelated access management standards and driveway requirements <br />• Goal 7: Adding supplemental requirements for pedestrian and bike trail connections to ensure <br />bikes and pedestrians can safely navigate car dominated landscapes <br />• Goal 8: Properly analyzing new parking standards through an equity lens and a climate change <br />perspective <br />• Goal 9: Creating a short “best practices” handout or guide outlining the concepts which steered <br />finalization of New Brighton’s updated ordinance