Overlapping of Parking Minimums Gets City OK
An ordinance designed to reduce the number of parking spaces required at commercial developments by allowing businesses to share spaces received preliminary City Council approval Monday.
Because parking demands vary at different times of the day, the ordinance could conserve space by allowing multiple-use developments--such as for a restaurant and a dry cleaner--to overlap on parking requirements, according to Doug Clark, the city’s development services director.
In addition, office buildings with more than 100,000 square feet of floor space, currently required to have four parking spaces for every 1,000 square feet, would have that requirement reduced to three spaces.
The ordinance will be up for final council approval July 1, and, if passed, will be effective 30 days later.
![Los Angeles, CA - May 19: Carlos Vargas, left, and Paulina Rubio, members of the harm reduction team from Homeless Outreach Program Integrated Care Systems [HOPICS], a leading homeless services and housing agency, look for drug addicts to help and pass out supplies at a homeless RV encampment along 77th St. in South Los Angeles Friday, May 19, 2023. The team hands out syringes, fentanyl test strips, overdose reversal nose spray and medication to prevent overdoses, infection and disease transmission, including the HIV virus. Fenanyl is particularly insidious because it can be found in all other drugs, especially meth and heroin. The handouts are also meant to reduce infection through broken pipes, which can cut users mouths and open them to infection. . (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/bc99ba0/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3900x2608+0+34/resize/1024x685!/format/webp/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fe9%2F77%2F4b8bd35d4881a3edec6b945b143b%2F1298639-me-soaring-fentanyl-deaths-24-1-ajs.jpg)
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