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MEMORANDUM To: Saint Anthony Village Parks and Environmental Commission From: Stephen Grittman, City Planner Date: May 21, 2025 Request: SAV Electric Vehicle Charging – Code Amendment Draft BACKGROUND At a previous City Council work session, the City Council discussed EV charging and whether to regulate for new multi-family and commercial projects. In addition to being an action item in the City’s Climate Plan, exploring the topic was identified as one of the City’s 2024 goals during the annal Goal Setting. The following models were considered: 1. Incentives to encourage – but not require – EV charging installation. 2. Requirements for installing infrastructure (such as power supply and site plan provisions, but forgoing installation of chargers until a future date. That future date sometimes relates to a fixed period, or a time at the owner’s discretion. 3. Requirements for installing EV charging facilities as a component of new or upgraded development. These requirements often create a tiered standard for the number of charging facilities based on size of the project. During the work session, the City Council agreed to focus on option 3 - requirements for installing EV charging facilities as a component of new or upgraded development. Staff agreed to draft ordinance language to this option for Commission and Council review. Commission members are tasked with reviewing the ordinance language and providing feedback. STAFF RESEARCH This memorandum forwards an initial draft of an amendment to the zoning ordinance providing for a requirement to install Electric Vehicle (EV) charging equipment when parking lots are being constructed or reconstructed. The draft follows the models used by Roseville and New Brighton in many details, but proposes some modifications to address aspects of Saint Anthony’s code, and with the goal of simplifying the process where practical. Both Roseville and New Brighton establish a basic threshold of 30 spaces as the lower threshold for requiring EV charging. Below that size, no requirement would be applicable. Additionally, both communities exempt certain levels of parking lot maintenance from triggering the addition of EV charging – essentially, only full reconstruction or major patching project (25% or more of the parking surface) would require a retrofit with EV charging facilities. In practical terms, a new parking lot supporting a residential project of fewer than about 20 units would be exempt. Further, a parking lot supporting a new commercial development of about 8,000 square feet or less would also be exempt. These thresholds would typically require parking lots of fewer than 30 vehicles.