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Planning and Building Department recommending the Board approve the Final Passage (Second Reading) of Ordinance 5165 amending County Code Title 110 Buildings and Construction to add Chapter 110.70 entitled Electric Vehicle Charging Station Regulations. (Cont. 8/23/2022, Item 21)
FUNDING: Permit Fees. (General Fund)
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
On August 23, 2022, the Board approved the Introduction (First Reading) of Ordinance 5165 amending County Code Title 110 Buildings and Construction to add Chapter 110.70 entitled Electric Vehicle Charging Station Regulations and Continued the matter to August 30, 2022 for Final Passage (Second Reading).
On October 8, 2015, the Governor signed new legislation AB 1236 (California Government Code Section 65850.7) requiring cities and counties to develop an ordinance to: 1) Streamline permit processing for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, and 2) utilize checklist(s) to expedite processing of qualifying permits consistent with the requirements of state law and County permit processing regulations. This new legislation requires cities and counties with populations less than 200,000 residents to enact such an ordinance by September 30, 2017. To address the above requirements for streamlined EV charging station permits, the Planning and Building Department, Building Division developed two EV charging station eligibility checklists for incorporation into the new ordinance, one for Commercial Building and Facilities and development and the other for residential development (Attachments C and D).
Since October of 2015, the County has been complying with the implementation requirements of AB1236 regarding permit streamlining and utilizing checklists to expedite processing of electric vehicle charging stations. However, the requirement to develop and adopt an ordinance was determined to be lower risk than other long range planning activities and was delayed in order to work on other higher risk/higher priority lon...
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