Arapahoe County, CO Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)

Arapahoe County's Land Development Code treats EV charging as either an Accessory Use (incidental to whatever else is on the parcel) or a Principal Use. B says the absence of any other principal use on a lot does not stop an Electric Vehicle Facility from being established as the principal use itself, but only in the A-E, A-1, R-2-B, and O districts; agricultural-zoned parcels are specifically allowed two principal uses at once as long as one of them is an EV charging station. Inside a Planned Unit Development, principal-use charging facilities are limited to Commercial and Industrial zones, while accessory charging is allowed in every PUD zone except Floodplain (F).

On parking, any space served by a charger, or used to site the charging equipment itself, counts toward the property's minimum parking requirement, and an ADA van-accessible charging space counts as two spaces toward that minimum as long as any driver, not just one with a disability placard, can use it. Equipment and screening may not sit inside the zone district or PUD setback unless the applicant shows the county that siting it outside the setback is infeasible, and weather canopies are barred from setbacks outright and capped at 18 feet from ground to the underside of the canopy, must stay open on the sides, and cannot block sight-distance triangles. 7.