Title:
Title
Regulating Shared Rideable Businesses and Operations
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FileID
File ID: 2018-01552
Location
Location: Citywide
Recommendation:
Recommendation
1) Review an Ordinance amending Chapter 5.18 and Chapter 10.76 of the Sacramento City Code relating to Shared-Rideable Businesses; and 2) pass a Motion forwarding the ordinance to City Council for consideration.
Contact: Jennifer Donlon Wyant, Program Specialist (916) 808-5913; Ryan Moore, City Traffic Engineer (916) 808-6629, Department of Public Works
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Presenter: Jennifer Donlon Wyant, Program Specialist (916) 808-5913, Department of Public Works
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Ordinance (Redline)
3-Ordinance (Clean)
4-Draft Fee Resolution
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: Shared-rideable businesses offer bicycles, e-bicycles, e-scooters and similar rideable devices on a self-service rental basis. Shared-rideable programs can help achieve the City's goals of encouraging active transportation; reducing vehicle miles traveled and single occupancy vehicle trips; providing first and last mile solutions for transit; and providing adequate parking to meet the needs of customers. A desirable shared-rideable business program should also reduce the potential for shared-rideable devices to block or interfere with pedestrian and emergency service use and access to all streets, sidewalks, paths, driveways, doorways, and other avenues of vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
Without regulation, shared-rideable businesses can pose a threat to the public health, safety, and welfare. Some shared-rideable devices may be self-locked anywhere within the city, making it difficult for the city to ensure that these devices are placed safely, upright, and out of the way of pedestrian walkways, bicycle paths, and roadways. Shared-rideable devices will also increase demand for the City's limited bicycle parking.
The shared-rideables landscape continues to evolve and we are learning lessons from the c...
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