Plenty of other cities, including Portland (OR), Denver, Los Angeles, Houston, Santa Cruz, and Sacramento have bike parking ordinances which require businesses to provide bike parking. And yes, it is pretty inexpensive; many business owners just don't even think to consider it.
Fiona Lockhart
Bryn Mawr
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>Subject: Re: [Mpls] Re: Bike Racks and Paths
>Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:14:58 -0600
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>Seems to me the Mpls Planning Commission could look at incorporating the
>request for bike racks when projects come before us. After all the hours we
>spent on Target and/or Block E or on the new Guthrie - seems the least we can
>do is say, " and how many bike racks do you plan to install?" Seems pretty
>basic to me. Guess I will just start asking and see where it goes. If we ask
>it over and over on each project maybe these developers will get to realize it
>is a normal addition to a project.
>For the moment,
>Annie Young
>(today from Trempealeau, Wisconsin)
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> > Bike racks.
> >
> > The unfortunate reality is that the installation of bicycle racks is at the
> > discretion of the owner and the designer of new projects. I worked on the
> > Uptown Transit Station, and we installed bicycle racks because the client,
> > Metro Transit, specifically requested them. The city code does not require
> > them. It seems to me that if we are required to allot a set number of
> > parking spaces for a business, the city could also put a requirement for a
> > minimum number of bicycle rack spaces into code as well. Perhaps this is
> > something we could bring up with city planning?
> >
> > Construction budgets are most often tight. Bike racks, particularly some of
> > the nicer stylized types, can be pricy (we're talking somewhere around $1000
> > or more for about 8 or 9 bike slots properly installed on a concrete pad).
> > If the racks are not required or requested by the intended users, it won't
> > happen.
> >
> > Melissa Wyatt
> > Uptown
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