One of the steps taken to implement the City of Los Angeles 2010 Bicycle Plan was to overhaul the City’s bicycle ordinance.
On March 13th of 2013, the new Bicycle Ordinance became effective for the City of Los Angeles, which heavily expanded the requirement for all types of development to provide bicycle parking and shower facilities for bicyclists. Architects, developers and owners have to seriously re-think their traditional design as the new bicycle parking requirements consume a sizeable portion of their project. There are short term bicycle parking requirements (e.g. retail consumers and guests of residents), as well as long-term bicycle parking requirements (e.g. employees and residents).
Additionally, the bicycle ordinance has included a clause to allow the reduction or “swapping” of automobile stalls for bicycle stalls. Since the bicycle stalls take up less square footage than the automobile stalls, previous design challenges to permit, for example, the change of use from a retail tenant to a more intensive use like a restaurant, or creating additional units inside a multi-family building, are now possible without the need for costly and lengthy entitlements. It even allows for some bicycle parking to be located right on the sidewalk!
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Bicycle Plan: Read PDF >
Public bike lockers outside the Metro Expo Line, Culver City
Bicycle corrals on the public sidewalk for business guests