[sustran] Re: anyone know anything about regulations allowing bikes
into commercial buildings?
Luc Nadal
Lnadal at itdp.org
Fri Nov 28 07:02:23 JST 2008
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
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