[sustran] Re: anyone know anything about regulations allowing bikes into commercial buildings?

[Luc Nadal]

Requirements for bicycle storage (+ baby strollers) in private  
buildings are becoming standard in France though they are the  
prerogative of municipalities and vary from one to the other. Legal  
requirements can only apply to new building construction and building  
rehabilitations subjected to building permit.  Municipal governements  
set the requirements (or non-requirements) for motorized and non  
motorized parking as part of their binding Local Urban Planning Plan  
(Plan local d"urbanisme, or PLU), voted by city councils.


Recommendations to local legislators nation-wide were issued in 2003  
by the Ministère de l'Écologie, de l'Energie, du Développement durable  
et de l'Aménagement du territoire (coordinated by its Centre d’Etudes  
sur les Réseaux, les Transports, l’Urbanisme - CERTU). They are as  
follow:

Housing: 0.5 to 2 spaces per housing units according to a scale from  
studio appartments (0.5-1 space/unit), to 5-room apartments and more  
(2 spaces/unit)
Schools: 1 space per 3-5 middle to high school students, 1 space per  
8-12 elementary school students, 1 space per 5 college/university  
students.
Business & administrations: 1 space for every 5  employees

sources (in French):
http://www.transports.equipement.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/Fiche_velo_sur_emplacements_prives_cle51ce6c.pdf
http://www.transports.equipement.gouv.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=2207




The Paris PLU, voted by the Council of Paris in 2006, requires ground- 
floor, enclosed and protected storage facilities for bicycles and  
strollers of a minimum area of 10m2 per building or over 2,25% of the  
building's floor area, -- whichever is larger.
Building construction/rehabilitation of less than 250 m2 is exempt.   
The minima apply to housing and office buildings only; the text  
remains vague when it comes to commerce, industry and other facilities  
where "the area devoted to bicycle and stroller storage will take into  
account the nature and destination of the premises, as well as their  
location and users."  (Paris PLU article UG 12.3).

sources (in French):
http://www.paris.fr/portail/viewmultimediadocument?multimediadocument-id=21576
http://www.paris.fr/portail/Urbanisme/Portal.lut?page_id=7042&document_type_id=4&document_id=21439&portlet_id=16186

Note: 10m2 = 5-7 bicycle parking spaces, according to CERTU standards  
above, including access but not accounting for baby stroller space.


Luc Nadal, ITDP