Use usually by residents or employees. Class 2 targeted shortterm use, usually for visitors and can be located indoor or outdoor. Requirements would require calibrating parking requirements based on the characteristic of use. For example, office uses will have more employees than visitors, than the requirement for class 1 will be higher. For personal services such as a gym, there would be more visitors and employees and class 2 requirements would be higher. Our proposal would overall increase bicycle parking requirements. Forresidential uses, existing requirements are one per two units. Which is really low, compared to comparable cities and contemporary green standards. Small projects of four units are less would not be required to provide racks. They just need to provide sufficient space for bicycles. For larger buildings over 100, the second box, the requirements will be sliding scale. So for any units over 100, the requirements would be 1 4 units. So for example, a 200unit residenti
Incentivize bicycle parking as an active use. Bicycle parking on the ground floor is considered active year so long as the space as direct access from the sidewalk and visible also from the sidewalk. And it would also limit the combined lobby and bicycle space to no more than 40 or 25 of the lot frontage. Our proposal will also include a no Zoning Administrator bulletin, to provide further specifications for the design and layout of bicycle parking. This is again an example that the department worked closely with sfmta to create really simple diagrams that depict these requirements. An example here is showing the required distance between racks and also the distance to a curb or wall. Another incentive offered is a line conversion of auto parking to bike parking. Existing bike parking requirements also allow such conversion, for class 1 parking is required. However, this provision in the code does not specify any details and therefore remains unclear and really hard to implement. Our p
Space. And i also questioned medical offices. Many medical offices are very small and they are within buildings that have a lot of offices there. How would you handle that . Would you make the whole building do it or each individual owner of a medical office have to provide their own parking space . The requirements are for new projects. So for example, when there is a new restaurant, the class 1 requirement is for every 7500squarefeet of restaurant, there will be class 1 bicycle parking. If its less than 7500, then class 1 wont be required. But class 2 will be in the public rightofway, so they dont have to use their own space for that. The same with other uses. If the space that is provided does not reach of the minimum amount ofsquarefootage that will trigger bicycle parking, they wont have to provide class 1. And existing facilities would not have to comply with this . Existing facilities do not have to do that unless they are doing any update. The 20 increase . Yes. And finally, yo
And as you heard there are approximately only 3,000 sidewalk racks currently in existence. These people obviously need a safe and convenient place to park their bikes. So i look forward to the discussion. Thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners. Tim colin on behalf of the Housing Action coalition. We are very pleased to support this. You should know a senior staff person on the Bicycle Coalition joined our board, and the Bicycle Coalition is regularly attendance when review and analyze and discuss projects. The view of increasing bicycles is a strong part of what we look at when we see projects. When i have noticed over the years that i have been there, is how many more people in our community are using bikes as they preferred way to get around . And how much more support has developed in our Community Around this . This is a sensible, logical advance in urban policy and deserves your support. We strongly endorse where this is going. Thank you. Any additional Public Comment on this it
Spaces. For a restaurant of 2500squarefeet, existing requirements doesnt require any bicycle parking. And our proposal will require 2 class 1 and 3 class 2. And the same with medical clinics and Office Buildings there will be increases. And also a separation of class 1 and class 2. Our proposal guides the location of bicycle parking for indoor spaces and we would incentivize bicycle parking as an active use. Bicycle parking on the ground floor is considered active year so long as the space as direct access from the sidewalk and visible also from the sidewalk. And it would also limit the combined lobby and bicycle space to no more than 40 or 25 of the lot frontage. Our proposal will also include a no Zoning Administrator bulletin, to provide further specifications for the design and layout of bicycle parking. This is again an example that the department worked closely with sfmta to create really simple diagrams that depict these requirements. An example here is showing the required dist