Tell City Council you support more long-term bike parking in Portland

This Wednesday, the Portland City Council will consider a group of planning amendments that includes the long-discussed increase in the number of bike parking spaces that are required in apartment and condo buildings.

Join the BTA at the City Council hearing on Wednesday, January 6 to speak up in support of this change.

Portland City Council Hearing to “Improve Land Use Regulations” (includes bike parking code change)
Wednesday, January 6th, 2:00 pm
Portland City Hall, 1221 SW 4th Ave.
Official agenda here: http://www.portlandonline.com/auditor/index.cfm?c=26997

Prepare 3 minutes or less of testimony, and sign up outside the hearing room or with the Council Clerk.

With no secure bike parking, and banned from bringing them into their units, building residents get creative.

At present, the city’s code requires only one long term bike parking space per four residential units. The BTA and City staff proposed that 1.5 spaces be required per unit, since that is approximately the number of people who live in each unit. The Planning Commission, at their hearing in the fall, instead recommended just 1.1 spaces per unit, which would theoretically be enough for everyone who currently owns a bike to park one bike in their residential building (but with no room for growth in the bike-ownership rate).

We support this compromise, and we’ll be at the City Council hearing on Wednesday speaking in support. If you support increasing the supply of long-term bike parking in Portland buildings, please join us there.