Table 37.080 Multi-Family Parking Requirements Amendment
This received a positive recommendation by the Planning Commission and will go to City Council on August 23r at 7pm for approval.
After receiving several complaints with parking issues on the west side of Lehi, City Staff created a survey on this website to gain feedback from residents. These proposed changes are based on feedback given.
The proposed changes include changes to Table 37.080. These changes include removing “guest” parking from the requirement and just requiring additional parking. This makes it clear that it can be used for residents as well as guests. The amendment also proposes removing the ability for condominiums to count tandem parking (one car parked behind the other) as counting towards the required amount. Condos currently are the only ones that allow tandem parking and from the survey most people do not think that it should count. This change of removing tandem parking for condos will increase the amount of required parking the most. This correlates with observation by Staff that areas around condos have the most parking issues.
The other big change to the parking table includes establishing a proximity requirement. The proposal states that the additional parking must be located within a designated number of feet from the unit. Again, this number was informed by the Engage Lehi survey and comes from the assumption that people want to park close to their front door. If off-street parking is not available within close proximity to the front door, people may decide to park illegally in bike lanes or on private streets too narrow to provide parking and safe driving conditions for cars.
Chapter 16 on PRD’s was included to add a parking requirement for single family homes with less of 50 feet of frontage requiring off-street parking as well. Currently Chapter 17 PUDs includes a parking requirement of one stall per six dwelling units. Staff recommended that it change to one per three dwelling units for both PRDs and PUDs.
Public Comments
This received a positive recommendation by the Planning Commission and will go to City Council on August 23r at 7pm for approval.
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I'm glad to see the requirement for every single family home to have a 2 car garage. So many homes have more than 2 drivers though. (I have 5 drivers/cars at my house and regularly have 2-3 visitors.) Requiring 1 spot for guests for every 3 houses is only close to functional if the residents have enough parking already. With so little frontage for each home when it's less than 50 ft I would bet that the 1 guest spot, as well as several spots on the street, will be full of resident's cars already, leaving guests struggling to even find parking on the street. The roads better be wide because they are going to have cars parked down both sides. The homes in my neighborhood have 2 car garages and 100 ft of frontage and we still have cars parked up and down the street at all times.
It's an even bigger issue for multifamily developments. All spots will be full of residents' cars, including the additional 1 per 3 units. There will consistently be cars parked on any nearby streets, and guests will still have nowhere to safely/legally park.
Changing from 1 stall per 6 units to 1 stall per 3 units is definitely a good move. I think that parking issues will still remain though.
This is a great step towards parking issues that plague the high density area where I live in Holbrook Farms. I hope this also prohibits HOA's from forming and enforcing their own rules that might contradict these new ordinances. Please look at the homes on Bromwell Court as an example of the terrible design these developers get away with for parking. We have 6 houses that circle a "shared driveway" and we're not allowed to park in the "shared driveway or on the private street where our house sits (Bromwell Court). This leaves the only option of where to park (other than our garage that only fits one car because its so small) being Sunnmore way, a city street, that gets crowded with vehicles and leaves a long walk for parents with kids, people with groceries, etc. I hope these new ordinances can help people in condos and townhouses but also single family homes crammed into small spaces with no parking that have strict HOA rules that lead to fines just because we park in front of our house.