Cape Coral, FL Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)

7, "Amount of required parking," folds electric vehicle charging into the City's off-street parking standards rather than treating it as a stand-alone article. Subsection C sets a size-based trigger: a development site reaches the charging-station requirement once its gross floor area hits 200,000 square feet. At that threshold the developer must provide one charging station, and the requirement scales upward from there, adding one more station for every additional 20,000 square feet of gross floor area above the initial 200,000-square-foot mark. Because the standard is measured against gross floor area rather than parking-space count, it applies across use types, from big-box retail and office parks to large multi-family projects, wherever the building program crosses the size threshold.

C, showing the City treats EV infrastructure as a large-development obligation rather than a universal one. Compliance is verified at the site-plan stage: Development Services checks the charging-station count against the gross-floor-area calculation before approving the plan, and the requirement was added to the code by Ordinance 66-23 on September 6, 2023, in the same amendment that revised the loading-facility and common-driveway standards elsewhere in Chapter 1. Smaller developments under the 200,000-square-foot floor face no mandatory charging-station count, though nothing in the code stops a developer from installing charging stations voluntarily as an amenity.