18.50.010 Purpose.
The purpose of this chapter is to provide adequate parking for all uses allowed in this title; to reduce demand for parking by encouraging alternative means of transportation including public transit, rideshare and bicycles; and to increase pedestrian mobility in urban areas by:
(1) Setting minimum off-street parking standards for different land uses that assure safe, convenient and adequately sized parking facilities within activity centers;
(2) Providing incentives to rideshare through preferred parking arrangements;
(3) Providing for parking and storage of bicycles;
(4) Providing safe direct pedestrian access from public rights-of-way to structures and between developments; and
(5) Requiring uses which attract large numbers of employees or customers to provide transit stops. (Ord. 08-21 § 4 (Exh. C); Ord. 42-02 § 2 (21A.18.010))