33-2021 - EV Charger fee structure

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Placed on 1st reading & Please s ' oT Orienal referred to PWS 10/4/21; 2nd reading 10/18/21 Bullock, Kepple, Lit.ten, Neff, ORDINANCE NO. 3 3 -2021 BY. Rader, Shachner AN ORDINANCE to take effect immediately provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least two thirds of the members of Council to create Chapter 357 Electric Charging Stations within the Lakewood Codified Ordinances. WHEREAS, Lakewood has obtained grant funds used to install electric vehicle charging stations; and WHEREAS, Lakewood should establish regulations for the installation, placement and charging of fees to use; and WHEREAS, as set forth in Section 2.12 of the Third Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood, this Council by a vote of at least two thirds of its members determines that this ordinance is an emergency measure and that it shall take effect immediately and that it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public property, health, and safety and to provide for the usual daily operation of municipal department in that Lakewood should be regulating and recovering fees for electric car charging stations as soon as possible; now, therefore BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO Chapter 357 Electric Vehicle Charging Stations, of the Lakewood Codified Ordinances, is hereby enacted to read as follows 357.01 ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS. The Director of Public Safety is hereby authorized and directed to establish electric vehicle charging stations in public parking lots, streets, or portions thereof as they may deem necessary. As with the general consideration of parking meter zones (3 5 5.01), The Director shall determine the location of such chargers on the basis of an applicable survey and shall consider the following: (a) The existing and potential traffic movement, volume and conditions; (b) The desirability of expediting travel during normal and peak hours of vehicular traffic; (c) The maximum promotion of public safety including the study of the location and frequency of accidents; (d) The convenience and welfare of the general public in parking, standing, loading and unloading, and the use of the public parking lots and streets as affecting business concerns; (e) Economy in the expenditure of money. 357.02 DESIGNATIONANSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CHARGING PARKING SPACES AND STATIONS. The Director of Public Safety is hereby directed and authorized to mark off parking spaces and install charging stations in parking zones designated and described in Section 355.01 as well as in public parking lots or any such other zones as may hereafter be established. Each electric vehicle