Goodyear, AZ Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)
Key Facts
- Applies to
- New EV charging installations
- Customer equipment
- Pedestals/bollards may stay visible
- Support equipment
- Must be screened, kept out of setbacks
- Clearance
- Utility and emergency access must stay open
- Canopies
- Materials must match development design
- Reviewed by
- Development Services, Site Plan Review
Summary
Goodyear's Zoning Ordinance requires new electric vehicle charging installations to keep customer-facing chargers visible while screening the support equipment behind them. Transformers, switchgear, utility cabinets, meters, conduit and battery systems must stay out of required landscape setbacks and the area between the building front and the street, and must be architecturally screened to match the building.
Electric vehicle charging stations and associated infrastructure shall comply with the following: A. Customer-Facing Equipment. EV charging pedestals and associated bollards intended for customer use may remain visible and accessible. B. Support Equipment. Transformers, switchgear, utility cabinets, meters, conduit, battery systems, and other supporting infrastructure shall: 1. Not be located within required landscape setbacks or between the primary building facade or a public street; 2. Be screened by an architectural enclosure compatible with the primary building; 3. Maintain required utility and emergency access clearances. C. Design Integration. EV charging canopies, equipment, and screening elements shall utilize colors and materials compatible with the overall development.
Full Breakdown
4) sets separate standards for the customer side and the utility side of an EV charging installation. Charging pedestals and the bollards that protect them may stay visible and accessible near parking stalls, since drivers need to see and reach them. Everything that supports the charging equipment, meaning transformers, switchgear, utility cabinets, meters, conduit runs and battery storage systems, is treated differently: none of it can be placed inside a required landscape setback or in the strip of land between the primary building facade and a public street, and all of it must be screened behind an architectural enclosure that matches the materials and design of the main building rather than left as bare utility boxes.
The ordinance also requires that emergency access and standard utility service clearances stay open around this equipment even after screening is added, so an enclosure cannot block the access a utility crew or fire crew needs. Where a project adds a canopy over the charging stalls, the canopy itself, the charging equipment and any screening elements must use colors and materials compatible with the rest of the development, so a charging canopy has to read as part of the site design rather than an add-on.
These requirements apply to new commercial and multi-family development that includes EV charging as part of its parking area, and Development Services reviews them during Site Plan Review alongside the project's general parking count.
Violations & Fines
Development Services reviews EV charging layouts as part of Site Plan Review before construction: support equipment shown in a setback, in the front yard between the building and the street, or without architectural screening will be flagged and the plan sent back for revision. A project cannot obtain site plan approval or a certificate of occupancy with charging infrastructure that fails the screening, setback or clearance standards.
Frequently Asked Questions
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