The Davidson Town Board on Tuesday adopted rules requiring new developments to provide bicycle parking and to have designs that control storm-water runoff.

The new bicycle parking rules will require developers to provide bicycle racks or storage facilities in proportion to the number of parking spaces required. They would apply to multi-family residential projects as well as to commerical, retail and industrial buildings.

Under the rules, for example, the new Harris-Teeter supermarket under construction near Exit 30 off I-77 would need about 250 automobile parking spaces, according to planning director Kris Krider. It would need racks for about two dozen bicycles, he said, or about 10% of the total for cars, he said.

With the board’s approval Davidson joins Charlotte and Salisbury as the only local governments in this area with bicycle parking rules. Work on the ordinance was done by the town’s Greenway, Trail and Bikeway Advisory Board.

“We wanted to provide more specificity to developers,” town planner Lauren Blackburn told the town board before the vote.

The rules, including specific requirements for bike parking spaces, are available on the town Website, CLICK HERE>

RUNOFF CONTROLS

The board also approved without discussion a new set of rules on stormwater runoff. The town was required to adopt the rules under federal and state environmental regulations.

The new ordinance requires developers to incorporate “proper design and well-planned controls to manage storm water runoff from development sites,” according to the draft regulations.

Read the new rules on the town Website, CLICK HERE>