Grand Junction, CO Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)

Section 21.08.030 of the Zone and Development Code, added by Ordinance 5190 in December 2023 and amended by Ordinance 5267 in July 2025, requires electric vehicle power transfer infrastructure whenever a permanent parking lot or structure is required for new development. The mandate reaches two categories of project: new construction of multi-unit dwellings or nonresidential uses, and redevelopment of the same use types. The code defines the redevelopment trigger precisely: a project counts as redevelopment for this section if it replaces or adds dwelling units, or if it expands an existing structure by 65% or more of its gross square footage.

Projects below that 65% threshold, and single-unit detached or duplex construction, fall outside the requirement. The infrastructure itself must comply with the Colorado Model Electric Ready and Solar Ready Code, which Grand Junction separately adopts with local amendments under GJMC Chapter 15.42, so builders need to check both the zoning section and the adopted building-code chapter for wiring, conduit and panel-capacity specifics. Because the requirement sits in the parking chapter, it is reviewed at site-plan and building-permit stage by Community Development rather than left to inspection after the fact; a project that omits the required EV infrastructure cannot receive Planning Clearance or building permit sign-off until the plans are corrected.

There is no exemption in the text for cost or site constraints; the only carve-outs are the redevelopment-size threshold and the residential unit types excluded from the underlying parking-lot trigger.