[Massplanners] Bicycle Parking Standards

Fri Oct 29 15:49:49 EDT 2021

Related to Phil's sharing of Arlington's guidelines (adopted by TM in
2019), we've also created a bike parking handbook to provide guidance on
the regulations through visuals and diagrams:

https://www.arlingtonma.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/48389/637103796678030000

Kelly Lynema
Assistant Director
Town of Arlington Department of Planning & Community Development
klynema at town.arlington.ma.us

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 3:42 PM Phil Goff via MassPlanners <
massplanners at masscptc.org> wrote:

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> Hi Darlene - a good place to start would be Arlington's excellent Bicycle
> Parking Guidelines. See in particular the required bike parking by land use
> table on p.16-17. Quick summary: the Town requires 3 long-term bike racks
> (6 spaces)for every 4 units in a MF building, and far less for outdoor
> short-term bike parking. For office/Commercial use, roughly 1 bike rack for
> every 6,000 SF.
>
> https://www.arlingtonma.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/48389/637103796678030000#:~:text=The%20Arlington%20Zoning%20Bylaw%20defines,from%20the%20associated%20principal%20use
> .
>
> With the popular Minuteman Path and proximity to Somerville, Cambridge and
> Red Line MBTA stations, Arlington's mode share is likely more multi-modal
> (roughly 5% bike, I believe) than Beverly's but it's probably a good target
> to shoot for.
>
> For contrast, more-suburban Lexington ties bike parking directly to
> required automobile parking and is far more modest than Arlington's. See
> 5.1.8 of their Zoning Bylaw: https://ecode360.com/27629834
> 5.1.8 - Bicycle Parking Facilities.
> 1. Required spaces. In an office, manufacturing, research or laboratory
> use as defined in the parking and loading tables, a minimum of two bicycle
> parking spaces shall be provided, and one additional bicycle parking space
> shall be provided for each increment of 20 motor vehicle parking spaces
> over 40 vehicle spaces.
>
> Good luck
>
> Phil Goff
> Senior Active Transportation Planner
> VHB
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> From: Darlene Wynne <dwynne at beverlyma.gov>
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> Hi all,
> We are looking to amend our Zoning Ordinance to add minimum bicycle
> parking standards in addition to our existing automobile parking standards.
> What other communities have bicycle parking standards and can you please
> share them?. Particularly I'm interested in communities with similar mode
> share as Beverly: e.g. greater than 75% auto/drive alone, less than 5%
> bicycle commuting.
>
> Thank you,
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> Darlene Wynne, AICP
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> *City of Beverly*
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> *Director of Planning & Community Development*
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