El Monte, CA Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)

090, Electric Vehicle Charging Spaces/Stations, sets minimum EV-readiness thresholds by project type in Title 17 (Zoning). For residential construction, every new enclosed parking space in a single-family or multifamily project must be EV-capable, meaning pre-equipped for a Level 1 charging unit at minimum. Multifamily projects with 10 or more units go further, requiring installed electrical charging stations at a rate of 15 percent of required guest parking spaces or 2 spaces, whichever is greater. 70-11 and scaled to the project's total required parking: a lot with 10 to 25 spaces needs 4 EV-capable spaces, climbing to 8 for 26 to 50 spaces, 14 for 51 to 75, 18 for 76 to 100, 26 for 101 to 150 and 36 for 151 to 200.

Lots under 10 total spaces require no capable spaces, but where capable spaces are required, half of them must be installed charging stations complete with EV supply equipment. The requirement follows the trigger for the project itself: new projects size against total required parking, building expansions size against only the new parking added, and a full parking-lot reconstruction sizes against the whole lot, but resurfacing or restriping alone never triggers the requirement. For projects needing 10 or more spaces, the code allows converting 2 Level 1 or 2 stations for each Level 3 fast-charging station installed instead.

EV space and charging-station counts round up to the nearest whole number rather than down, an exception carved out from the code's general rounding rule.