City of Santa Clara - File #: 18-500

• File #: 18-500
• Version: 1
• Type: Consent Calendar
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 4/13/2018
• In control: Council and Authorities Concurrent Meeting
• On agenda: 7/10/2018
• Final action: 7/10/2018
• Title: Action on an Ordinance amending Title 18 of "The Code of the City of Santa Clara, California" to add parking ratios for data centers and self-storage facilities to Chapter 18.74, Parking Regulations
• Indexes: CC

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/10/2018	1	Council and Authorities Concurrent Meeting	Approved Staff Recommendation

REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Action on an Ordinance amending Title 18 of "The Code of the City of Santa Clara, California" to add parking ratios for data centers and self-storage facilities to Chapter 18.74, Parking Regulations

Report
BACKGROUND
The City allows privately initiated and funded Zoning Code Amendment requests. The applicant, Extra Space Storage, submitted a request to amend the City's Zoning Code to create a new codified parking ratio for self-storage facilities to recognize that such facilities may generate parking demand levels different than that of other industrial/commercial uses. City staff expanded the proposed amendment to include a City-initiated Zoning Code Amendment to create a codified parking ratio for data centers. Neither land use currently has a parking ratio specifically identified in the parking standards chapter of the Zoning Code (Chapter 18.74). The existing Zoning Code does not identify specific parking standards for these uses and the City's practice has been to apply the parking standard for general warehousing use. However, analysis shows that both self-storage and data center uses generate lower parking demand than that what is required for general warehousing.

DISCUSSION
At the May 9, 2018 Planning Commission meeting, staff provided a presentation of the proposed zoning code amendment and explained the staff recommendation to create parking standards for both self-storage facilities and data center uses.

The Planning Commission had a short discussion around the idea of adding bicycle parking and Electric Vehicle (EV) charging standards for those two uses. Ray Hashimoto, the applicant for the self-storage portion of the amendment requested that the Planning Commission not delay the proposed Code Amendment, but rather take an action that evening. There were no other public speakers. Staff recommended addressing EV charging and bicycle parking standards holistically for all enumerated uses in the Zoning Code thro...