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Columbus Updates Parking Code for Bikes

5 May 2010 6 Comments

The city of Columbus has overhauled legislation on parking at new developments, seeking to limit parking spaces and expand amenities for cyclists, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

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Here’s a rundown of the new requirements:

- Every type of building — bowling alleys, churches, shopping centers, restaurants, office buildings, etc. — must provide a minimum of two bike-parking spaces.

- Bigger places must provide an extra bike parking spot for every 20 car-parking spaces, up to a maximum of 20 bike spaces.

- Bike racks must be anchored to the ground and support a bicycle upright in two places.

- The rules apply for new developments or when a building’s use changes (if a restaurant becomes a retail store, for example).

Columbus: Midwestern trendsetter?

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  • erok

    hate to break it to you, but Pittsburgh beat Columbus to the punch, by like 2 months. Way back in March 2010, the city adopted a bike parking ordinance of their own: http://bike-pgh.org/2010/03/city-council-unanimously-passes-bike-parking-requirement-ordinance/

    But i guess there’d be debate on whether PGH is midwest or not ;)

  • schmange

    Should have known. Pittsburgh shouldn’t even be considered the Midwest/Rust Belt anymore. It’s more like a European outpost in the middle of the Appalachians.

  • Kevin

    Oh yeah? Well, Cleveland passed a bicycle parking ordinance two years ago. Nyaa. :)

  • http://rustwire.com Schmange

    Now I don’t even know what to think. Black is white. Night is day. Anyway, definitely a trend.

  • http://diggingpitt.blogspot.com/ John Morris

    Pittsburgh is neither all East Coast or all Appalachian or all Midwestern–It’s the gateway to the midwest.

    Baltimore & Ohio Railway. Pitt Ohio Trucking.

  • Keith

    Um, no. Residents were able to request bike racks where needed. The city has since banned that. Nice trend.